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"
You know what's wrong with me
You know phrenology
You saw my injury
You can tell just by looking at my skull
Contrecoup, on the rebound
Contrecoup hurt me again
And the second was worse by far than the first
'Cause it made me limerent
When my head was hit
I bounced away from it
Or as someone who is craniosophic would say
The brain went the opposite way
Contrecoup, on the rebound
Contrecoup hurt me again
And the second was worse by far than the first
'Cause the first just left me feeling inert
But the contrecoup woke my feelings for you
And it left me limerent
You know phrenology
You saw my injury
You can tell just by looking at my skull
Contrecoup, on the rebound
Contrecoup hurt me again
And the second was worse by far than the first
'Cause it made me limerent
When my head was hit
I bounced away from it
Or as someone who is craniosophic would say
The brain went the opposite way
Contrecoup, on the rebound
Contrecoup hurt me again
And the second was worse by far than the first
'Cause the first just left me feeling inert
But the contrecoup woke my feelings for you
And it left me limerent
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Love this song. First, unrelated: the terms "coup" and "countrecoup" refer to physical head injuries. When a stationary head is hit with a moving item, it is a coup injury. A countrecoup is the result of a head moving into the object. So, a baseball bat slammed into the back of someone's head is a coup injury, whereas tripping on soap and banging your head on the bathtub water faucet is a countrecoup injury.
Furthermore, a coup-countrecoup injury (most likely referred to in this song) occurs when the force of a blow to the head is great enough to cause the brain to slam into the opposite side of the head. Both sides receive the contusion.
It would appear that this "injury" is the latter definition, based on words like "rebound," and "hurt me again," and "the brain went the opposite way." But this is almost certainly a figurative representation of the injury. My thoughts here are that the subject fell in love, which would be the coup action - the word limerence comes from a 1970s scientific study on the nature of love. When you are in love, you share many of the physical characteristics as that of brain injury -- stuttering, pallor, flushing, eye-dilation, weakness, stammering, and confusion. His countrecoup injury affects his ability to speak – he becomes nervous, can’t form his words, because he’s so infatuated with the person with whom he is speaking.
Phrenology, for those that don't already know, is the study of the bumps on the skull (which equate to different sizes of the brain). This is a form of pseudo-science which involves personality evaluation, using nothing more than the subject's skull shape – areas of the brain that are bigger have more of certain given characteristics that are known to be associated with that part of the brain. This has been proven by modern science to be inaccurate. But in terms of this song, the subject feels that his brain injury changed his personality - he falls in love due to a bump on the head (either a real bump, or a metaphorical one).
Using phrenology, we can determine the subject’s injury location. His speech has been affected by the countrecoup injury. Depending on which phrenology model you consult, the speech part of the brain is right behind the eyes. If this is the area that receives a countrecoup injury, then the initial injury would have happened to the back of the head, which is the cerebellum, located at the top of the neck. Phrenologists identify this area as dealing with the propensity for physical love.