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"
"Hey, Matt"
"Yeah, Tim?"
"Hey, you talked to Mark lately?
Uh, haven't really talked to him but he looks pretty uh down"
"He looks pretty, uh down?"
"Yeah, well, maybe we should cheer him up then"
"What do you uh, suppose we should do?"
"Well, does he like butter tarts?"
I was lying on the grass on Sunday morning of last week
Indulging in my self-defeat
My mind was thugged, all laced
And bugged, all twisted wrong and beat
A comfortable in three feet deep
Now the fuzzy stare from not being there
On a confusing morning week
Impaired my tribal lunar-speak
And of course you can't become
If you only say what you would have done
So I missed a million miles of fun
I know it's up for me
If you steal my sunshine
Making sure I'm not in too deep
If you steal my sunshine
Keeping versed and on my feet
If you steal my sunshine
"Chad, come here, come here, come here"
"Wow, look at her"
"I know"
"Wow, I've never seen Sharon look so bad before"
"I did once before but this is pretty bad"
"Yeah, what do you think she got up to last night?"
"Well, I, Karen, I love you"
I was lying on the bench slide in the park
Across the street later that week
My sticky paws were in to making straws out of big fat slurpy treats
An incredible eight foot heap
Now the funny glare to pay a gleaming tare in a staring under heat
Involved an under usual feat
And I'm not only among but I invite who I want to come
So I missed a million miles of fun
I know it's up for me
If you steal my sunshine
Making sure I'm not in too deep
If you steal my sunshine
Keeping versed and on my feet
If you steal my sunshine
I know it's done for me
If you steal my sunshine
Not as some and hard to see
If you steal my sunshine
Keeping dumb and built to beat
If you steal my sunshine
My sunshine
If you steal my sunshine
If you steal my sunshine
If you steal my sunshine
...
"Yeah, Tim?"
"Hey, you talked to Mark lately?
Uh, haven't really talked to him but he looks pretty uh down"
"He looks pretty, uh down?"
"Yeah, well, maybe we should cheer him up then"
"What do you uh, suppose we should do?"
"Well, does he like butter tarts?"
I was lying on the grass on Sunday morning of last week
Indulging in my self-defeat
My mind was thugged, all laced
And bugged, all twisted wrong and beat
A comfortable in three feet deep
Now the fuzzy stare from not being there
On a confusing morning week
Impaired my tribal lunar-speak
And of course you can't become
If you only say what you would have done
So I missed a million miles of fun
I know it's up for me
If you steal my sunshine
Making sure I'm not in too deep
If you steal my sunshine
Keeping versed and on my feet
If you steal my sunshine
"Chad, come here, come here, come here"
"Wow, look at her"
"I know"
"Wow, I've never seen Sharon look so bad before"
"I did once before but this is pretty bad"
"Yeah, what do you think she got up to last night?"
"Well, I, Karen, I love you"
I was lying on the bench slide in the park
Across the street later that week
My sticky paws were in to making straws out of big fat slurpy treats
An incredible eight foot heap
Now the funny glare to pay a gleaming tare in a staring under heat
Involved an under usual feat
And I'm not only among but I invite who I want to come
So I missed a million miles of fun
I know it's up for me
If you steal my sunshine
Making sure I'm not in too deep
If you steal my sunshine
Keeping versed and on my feet
If you steal my sunshine
I know it's done for me
If you steal my sunshine
Not as some and hard to see
If you steal my sunshine
Keeping dumb and built to beat
If you steal my sunshine
My sunshine
If you steal my sunshine
If you steal my sunshine
If you steal my sunshine
...
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