This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
One, two, three
Did all your true things begin to seem so false?
And then you pack it up and go away
And I pray you don't get lost
And I pray you don't get lost
Did you learn from the tall trees?
Did they keep you from the rain?
Did they grow you some food to eat?
You know they will fall someday, they will fall someday
And how could your whole life be gone?
In seconds it turns all wrong
But all in time my dear the change will come
Did all your reasons stray right from the source?
And when you're walking and leaving
Well I pray you stay on course
And I pray you stay on course
There's new life in the old woods
But the feeling's just the same
Evolution of the chosen one
Seventh son, they will say
Seventh son, they will say
And how could your whole life be gone?
In seconds it turns all wrong
But all in time my dear the change will come
Maker, make a light to shine on those
Who need light, light
Maker, make a light to shine on those
Who need light, light
And I pray it'll come
And I know it'll come
And I pray the change will come
And I pray the change will come
Did all your true things begin to seem so false?
And then you pack it up and go away
And I pray you don't get lost
And I pray you don't get lost
Did you learn from the tall trees?
Did they keep you from the rain?
Did they grow you some food to eat?
You know they will fall someday, they will fall someday
And how could your whole life be gone?
In seconds it turns all wrong
But all in time my dear the change will come
Did all your reasons stray right from the source?
And when you're walking and leaving
Well I pray you stay on course
And I pray you stay on course
There's new life in the old woods
But the feeling's just the same
Evolution of the chosen one
Seventh son, they will say
Seventh son, they will say
And how could your whole life be gone?
In seconds it turns all wrong
But all in time my dear the change will come
Maker, make a light to shine on those
Who need light, light
Maker, make a light to shine on those
Who need light, light
And I pray it'll come
And I know it'll come
And I pray the change will come
And I pray the change will come
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