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"
Wholesale notoriety
Bar code your anxiety
State your fatal doom in a still photograph
Fear is a ragged dog all right
But you let it run around awhile
Oh, it howls and begs, but it won't bite
Oh, it loses heart in its dinner
You were captive to the free press
He's a work in regress
You'll fix him in the repress or let him be
I thank you for your largess
I hope you'll drop the charges
You know I crave the mark of your company
He was holed up in the brickyard
He could only take this so hard
He was driven on a mission
He did it in the pole position
I was always interested
Even if it was in whispers
But I knew he had me bested
Saw you at the metro pictures
Rip the moonlit sky down and tear sun
Shoot the fucking stars out, here we come
With the gray clouds conspiring, the rain fall between us
If you're on the line by the bayside marina
Later outside when I told you one true wish
And I hid my smile 'cause you sounded so foolish
Cut down to size as life flashed in his eyes
And looked a lot like TV news
He was castigated for his lies
He was persecuted for his views
And we all disintegrated into one celestial fissure
Leaving all that went unstated
Taking all the metro pictures
I will always be your lover
You will always be my sister
But I knew I need not bother
I saw you at the metro pictures
Bar code your anxiety
State your fatal doom in a still photograph
Fear is a ragged dog all right
But you let it run around awhile
Oh, it howls and begs, but it won't bite
Oh, it loses heart in its dinner
You were captive to the free press
He's a work in regress
You'll fix him in the repress or let him be
I thank you for your largess
I hope you'll drop the charges
You know I crave the mark of your company
He was holed up in the brickyard
He could only take this so hard
He was driven on a mission
He did it in the pole position
I was always interested
Even if it was in whispers
But I knew he had me bested
Saw you at the metro pictures
Rip the moonlit sky down and tear sun
Shoot the fucking stars out, here we come
With the gray clouds conspiring, the rain fall between us
If you're on the line by the bayside marina
Later outside when I told you one true wish
And I hid my smile 'cause you sounded so foolish
Cut down to size as life flashed in his eyes
And looked a lot like TV news
He was castigated for his lies
He was persecuted for his views
And we all disintegrated into one celestial fissure
Leaving all that went unstated
Taking all the metro pictures
I will always be your lover
You will always be my sister
But I knew I need not bother
I saw you at the metro pictures
Lyrics submitted by 3ric
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