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"
Yeah I loved our band
I don't have one regret
I even liked our first two records on cassette
They were the soundtrack for the night
You and me had that fight
Out in the woods
Over some girl we'd met
We turned the music up
Rolled the windows down
We beat the clock
To the ashtray rock
To make the world stop spinning round
We pushed then we shoved
Singing who do you love?
Sisters, brothers
Friends and lovers
All of the above
And through the summer
We swore, we'd stick together
Under the radar
We fly
So high
Forever
And if they caught us
We knew they'd never prove it
All that mattered
Was you and me
Driving round here, listening to music
Anybody, anybody else would be gone, long, gone
Anybody, anybody else would be gone, long, gone
Anybody, anybody else would be gone, long, gone
Anybody, anybody else would be gone, long, gone
The summer came and went
And all the colours changed
Leaves came down
People they got strange
I never thought that you
Would turn from pink to blue
Before my very eyes and back again
Don't resist it
You said we getting older
You saw her lipstick in red
Upon my shoulder
And for the first time I swore
You looked right through me
All that mattered anymore was that 1940s beauty
Anybody, anybody else would be gone, long, gone
Anybody, anybody else would be gone, long, gone
Anybody, anybody else would be gone, long, gone
Anybody, anybody else would be...
Yeah I stole your girl
If I have one regret
It's that I lost you the first time
I set my eyes on her
I don't have one regret
I even liked our first two records on cassette
They were the soundtrack for the night
You and me had that fight
Out in the woods
Over some girl we'd met
We turned the music up
Rolled the windows down
We beat the clock
To the ashtray rock
To make the world stop spinning round
We pushed then we shoved
Singing who do you love?
Sisters, brothers
Friends and lovers
All of the above
And through the summer
We swore, we'd stick together
Under the radar
We fly
So high
Forever
And if they caught us
We knew they'd never prove it
All that mattered
Was you and me
Driving round here, listening to music
Anybody, anybody else would be gone, long, gone
Anybody, anybody else would be gone, long, gone
Anybody, anybody else would be gone, long, gone
Anybody, anybody else would be gone, long, gone
The summer came and went
And all the colours changed
Leaves came down
People they got strange
I never thought that you
Would turn from pink to blue
Before my very eyes and back again
Don't resist it
You said we getting older
You saw her lipstick in red
Upon my shoulder
And for the first time I swore
You looked right through me
All that mattered anymore was that 1940s beauty
Anybody, anybody else would be gone, long, gone
Anybody, anybody else would be gone, long, gone
Anybody, anybody else would be gone, long, gone
Anybody, anybody else would be...
Yeah I stole your girl
If I have one regret
It's that I lost you the first time
I set my eyes on her
Lyrics submitted by joannabanana
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