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"
No one knows her name but they see her youth and use her
She's feeling free and everything she sees is truth
She's seventeen, she's got everything she needs to lose
Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh no
She's got everyone to help her on her way
She's got everyone to help her on her way
She's got everyone to help her on her way down
He seems to know right where it hurts, your pain, in vain
He gives himself to you, he's in your way
And everything he does just seems a phase, insane
Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh no
He's got everyone to help him on his way
He's got everyone to help him on his way
He's got everyone to help him on his way down
Everything you touch tears at your heart, apart
Of everything you see is down in your soul, never let you go
You've got everyone to help you on your way
You've got everyone to help you on your way
You've got everyone to help you on your way down
you're a 666 conducer, how do you do the things you do, sir?
You're a 666 conducer, how do you do the things you do, sir?
You're a 666 conducer, how do you do the things you do?
You're a 666 conducer, how do you do? How do you do?
You're a 666 conducer, how do you do the things you do, sir?
You're a 666 conducer, how do you do the things you do, sir?
You're a 666 conducer, how do you do the things you do, sir?
You're a 666 conducer, how do you do the things you do?
How do you do the things you do? How do you do?
How do you do? How do you do? How do you do?
She's feeling free and everything she sees is truth
She's seventeen, she's got everything she needs to lose
Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh no
She's got everyone to help her on her way
She's got everyone to help her on her way
She's got everyone to help her on her way down
He seems to know right where it hurts, your pain, in vain
He gives himself to you, he's in your way
And everything he does just seems a phase, insane
Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh no
He's got everyone to help him on his way
He's got everyone to help him on his way
He's got everyone to help him on his way down
Everything you touch tears at your heart, apart
Of everything you see is down in your soul, never let you go
You've got everyone to help you on your way
You've got everyone to help you on your way
You've got everyone to help you on your way down
you're a 666 conducer, how do you do the things you do, sir?
You're a 666 conducer, how do you do the things you do, sir?
You're a 666 conducer, how do you do the things you do?
You're a 666 conducer, how do you do? How do you do?
You're a 666 conducer, how do you do the things you do, sir?
You're a 666 conducer, how do you do the things you do, sir?
You're a 666 conducer, how do you do the things you do, sir?
You're a 666 conducer, how do you do the things you do?
How do you do the things you do? How do you do?
How do you do? How do you do? How do you do?
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