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"
Baby girl, tell me how again I'm supposed to trust you now
After everything you admitted to me
And I'm sitting here tryin' to find a way to forget somehow
'Cause I'm feeling like you cut me too deep
Girl, I blame myself 'cause I told you lay it on the line
Never thought that you would lay it that way
Never thought you had so much to say
Never thought that I'd see the day
Where we almost cross the line between love and hate
Are you sure you told me everything? (everything now)
Even though it hurts (I'm missing it)
I'm tryin' to take it like a man, and halfway understand
Being hurt wasn't part of the plan
It was a heart breaker
Hearin' things I didn't wanna hear from her
Now I'm thinking 'bout the things I did for her
Glad I never ever had no kids with her, this heart breaker
'Cause I damn near swallowed my tongue (when she said it to me)
My heart started pounding like a drum (when she said it to me)
Thought the truth was something I could take
But it wasn't supposed to feel like a heartbreak
Now, the fact of the matter is, I thought that I'd be cool
(After everything you admitted to me)
It's takin' everything of me not to put my hands on you
'Cause I'm feelin' like you cut me too deep
Girl, I blame myself 'cause I told you to lay it on the line
Never thought that you would lay it that way
Never thought you had so much to say
Never thought that I'd see the day
When we'd almost cross the line between love and hate
Are you sure you told me everything? (Don't need no surprises)
Even though it hurts, I'm missing it (I'm hurtin', I'm tryin' to hide it)
I'm tryin' to take it like a man, and halfway understand
Being hurt wasn't part of the plan
I've had my share of broken hearts, but, girl, you took it too far
'Cause what you did to me was so unpredictable
Yeah, you told me, but I wish I didn't know
Now, why you wanna go and break me down? (Down, way down)
It's like I'm lost, never to be found
And it ain't like I'm six feet under ground (ground)
You didn't have to tell me 'cause
I damn near swallowed my tongue (when she said it to me)
My heart started pounding like a drum (when she said it to me)
Thought the truth was something I could take
But it wasn't supposed to feel like a heartbreak
After everything you admitted to me
And I'm sitting here tryin' to find a way to forget somehow
'Cause I'm feeling like you cut me too deep
Girl, I blame myself 'cause I told you lay it on the line
Never thought that you would lay it that way
Never thought you had so much to say
Never thought that I'd see the day
Where we almost cross the line between love and hate
Are you sure you told me everything? (everything now)
Even though it hurts (I'm missing it)
I'm tryin' to take it like a man, and halfway understand
Being hurt wasn't part of the plan
It was a heart breaker
Hearin' things I didn't wanna hear from her
Now I'm thinking 'bout the things I did for her
Glad I never ever had no kids with her, this heart breaker
'Cause I damn near swallowed my tongue (when she said it to me)
My heart started pounding like a drum (when she said it to me)
Thought the truth was something I could take
But it wasn't supposed to feel like a heartbreak
Now, the fact of the matter is, I thought that I'd be cool
(After everything you admitted to me)
It's takin' everything of me not to put my hands on you
'Cause I'm feelin' like you cut me too deep
Girl, I blame myself 'cause I told you to lay it on the line
Never thought that you would lay it that way
Never thought you had so much to say
Never thought that I'd see the day
When we'd almost cross the line between love and hate
Are you sure you told me everything? (Don't need no surprises)
Even though it hurts, I'm missing it (I'm hurtin', I'm tryin' to hide it)
I'm tryin' to take it like a man, and halfway understand
Being hurt wasn't part of the plan
I've had my share of broken hearts, but, girl, you took it too far
'Cause what you did to me was so unpredictable
Yeah, you told me, but I wish I didn't know
Now, why you wanna go and break me down? (Down, way down)
It's like I'm lost, never to be found
And it ain't like I'm six feet under ground (ground)
You didn't have to tell me 'cause
I damn near swallowed my tongue (when she said it to me)
My heart started pounding like a drum (when she said it to me)
Thought the truth was something I could take
But it wasn't supposed to feel like a heartbreak
Lyrics submitted by Smithr1989
Heartbreaker Lyrics as written by Antonio Dixon Damon Thomas
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, O/B/O DistroKid, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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