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"
When the world gets silent let your love be a radar
When the city stops ringing, sound it out to me from where you are
As she walks by if I turn and stare, remember I no longer hear
and tell me there's no love in there
When I'm far across the highway and I'm spoiled in the drink
Give to me integrity and will power to think
When she's in my mind ask me to resign
and take away my rough design
When I'm desolate in love, take me into town
Say for me that honestly you know what's got me town
If she tries to comfort me or save me from despair
Could you try to do it first to show me that you're there?
I swore that I would never let anyone else in
Learning from my father, learning from within
I would like to do it better, better than before
Turning in my mind just like a soldier who is at war
When I'm beat and conquest seems to be a way to shine
Tell me how ridiculous it gets for those who walk that line
If she gets into my heart, tell her she can't stay
And that it's not okay cause you can't live or love that way
When I'm desolate in love, take me in to town
When the city stops ringing, sound it out to me from where you are
As she walks by if I turn and stare, remember I no longer hear
and tell me there's no love in there
When I'm far across the highway and I'm spoiled in the drink
Give to me integrity and will power to think
When she's in my mind ask me to resign
and take away my rough design
When I'm desolate in love, take me into town
Say for me that honestly you know what's got me town
If she tries to comfort me or save me from despair
Could you try to do it first to show me that you're there?
I swore that I would never let anyone else in
Learning from my father, learning from within
I would like to do it better, better than before
Turning in my mind just like a soldier who is at war
When I'm beat and conquest seems to be a way to shine
Tell me how ridiculous it gets for those who walk that line
If she gets into my heart, tell her she can't stay
And that it's not okay cause you can't live or love that way
When I'm desolate in love, take me in to town
Lyrics submitted by acoustic.kipsie
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