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"
I hear you call me, branches break in the wind
And through the leaves and concrete
You're gonna grow into something that death can't steal
A garden that gives, sprouts come up glowing
Fruits of jade and golden, silver trees to mark the legacy
Of a life that finally learned what this means
The invisible choir sings you a voiceless lesson
So you'll always remember what grew out of decisions
That death can't steal, lives that learned to give
When it seemed there was nothing
Oh, how much more it meant to those
Around we go there's a rhythm soft and slow
You'll always hear the choir if you listen close
And through the leaves and concrete
You're gonna grow into something that death can't steal
A garden that gives, sprouts come up glowing
Fruits of jade and golden, silver trees to mark the legacy
Of a life that finally learned what this means
The invisible choir sings you a voiceless lesson
So you'll always remember what grew out of decisions
That death can't steal, lives that learned to give
When it seemed there was nothing
Oh, how much more it meant to those
Around we go there's a rhythm soft and slow
You'll always hear the choir if you listen close
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The first half is about growing up and becoming "someone". He puts in the song like becoming "something that death can't steal" and leaving "a legacy". It also talks about learning what learning what life means.
The second part talks about the "weight" of growing up, making decisions that are so important that "death can't steal" them. I think the "choir" that he sings about is all the people arround you in the process of growing up, they are teaching you lessons, lessons that will stick with you so "you'll always hear the choir if you listen close".
NO! Youre completely wrong! This song is about death. "through the leaves and concrete youre gonna grow to something that death can't steal". As in, after your buried, things will grow from the soil your body is in, "fruits of jade and golden silver trees". It takes after the idea that if your buried, and a tree is planted over your grave, your soul will live on through the tree, and when a bird eats a seed from the tree you fly with the birds. This song is in no way about "growing up".