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've got a bone to pick with you and this opportunity
I couldn't live this down enough to make up for you and me
I feel a swelling in my soul I've been choking up inside
I'd bite my tongue just for your sake but I'd swallow too much pride
[Chorus]
And who will be sorry first who will be sorry first
And if you won't be the one to budge I can tell what I am worth
And you've got you to blame for what you do to you
There's nothing shocking so it must be true
And let me set this record straight on the drama you create
Before you go and turn your back on me
I've got a lot to pay you back I've been saving up for years
I'm gonna break you into two now who's gonna hear your tears
I've been the friend you never had now you'll never have me back
I bear a witness to your faults and that line's severely cracked
You're gonna live your life and stay on your side
You're not ashamed to try you're more afraid of why
This bridge is burning now it's caving in
We're never gonna win we'll run in circles till we fall in line
I couldn't live this down enough to make up for you and me
I feel a swelling in my soul I've been choking up inside
I'd bite my tongue just for your sake but I'd swallow too much pride
[Chorus]
And who will be sorry first who will be sorry first
And if you won't be the one to budge I can tell what I am worth
And you've got you to blame for what you do to you
There's nothing shocking so it must be true
And let me set this record straight on the drama you create
Before you go and turn your back on me
I've got a lot to pay you back I've been saving up for years
I'm gonna break you into two now who's gonna hear your tears
I've been the friend you never had now you'll never have me back
I bear a witness to your faults and that line's severely cracked
You're gonna live your life and stay on your side
You're not ashamed to try you're more afraid of why
This bridge is burning now it's caving in
We're never gonna win we'll run in circles till we fall in line
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I think it's: "I got a bone to pick with you And this opportunity I couldn’t live this down enough to make up for you and me I feel a swelling in my soul, I’ve been choking up inside I bite my tongue before you say, but I swallowed too much pride And who will be sorry first? Who will be sorry first? And if you won’t be the one to budge I can tell what I am worth
You’ve got you to blame for what you do to you There’s nothing shocking so it must be true And let me set this record straight On the drama you create Before you go and turn your back on me
I got a lot to pay you back I’ve been saving up for years I’m gonna break you into two Now who’s gonna hear your tears I’ve been the friend you never had Now you’ll never have me back I’ve been a witness to your faults And the lines have barely cracked And who will be sorry first? Who will be sorry first? And if you won’t be the one to budge I can tell what I am worth
You’ve got you to blame for what you do to you There’s nothing shocking so it must be true And let me set this record straight On the drama you create Before you go and turn your back on me
You’re gonna live your life and stay on your side You’re not ashamed to try You’re more afraid of why This bridge is burning and now its caving in We’re never gonna win, we’re running in circles til we fall in line
You’ve got you to blame for what you do to you There’s nothing shocking so it must be true And let me set this record straight On the drama you create Before you go and turn your back on me
I’ve got a bone to pick with you And this opportunity I couldn’t live this down enough to make up for you and me I feel a sweling in my soul, I’ve been choking up inside I bite my tongue before you say but I swallowed to much pride
And who will be sorry first? Who will be sorry first? And if you won’t be the one to budge I can tell what I am worth And who will be sorry first? Who will be sorry first? And if you won’t be the one to budge I can tell what I am worth"
at kennedy center concert he said this is about being friends with someone and then having a fight and not being friends anymore
kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm
Such a catchy song, such harsh words.