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"
We've been around on the other side of innocence
Now we're waking up to AM radio
I follow fingers but I couldn't keep from laughing
Your body language said you knew that this would happen
I'm digging a hole for the days of the old
I'll put them two feet deep so I can reach 'em if I need 'em
Fingerprints show on the walls of my home
They're reading, "Turn off the radio, turn off the radio"
I will always remember
Making out 'til the sun went down
Counting stars from the hood of a car
Catching my friends as they were falling down
Rise and shine to a headache and a question
My keys were lost and my morals came up missing
Opportunities were open for the taking
I tried to leave but couldn't keep the floors from shaking
I'm digging a hole for the days of the old
I'll put them two feet deep so I can reach 'em if I need 'em
Fingerprints show on the walls of my home
They're reading, "Turn off the radio, turn off the radio"
I will always remember
Making out 'til the sun went down
Counting stars from the hood of a car
Catching my friends as they were falling down
Take me back to the ocean
Right before we had to drive away
We made a promise when we said goodbye
We swore it wouldn't be the last time
This is where the summer ends (where the summer ends)
No more clothes left, lie in the sand
It was good, no, it was amazing
Tell me that you won't, won't forget about me
I will always remember
Making out 'til the sun went down
Counting stars from the hood of a car
Catching my friends as they were falling down
Take me back to the ocean
Right before we had to drive away
We made a promise when we said goodbye
We swore it wouldn't be the last time
Swore it wouldn't be the last time, the last time
Now we're waking up to AM radio
I follow fingers but I couldn't keep from laughing
Your body language said you knew that this would happen
I'm digging a hole for the days of the old
I'll put them two feet deep so I can reach 'em if I need 'em
Fingerprints show on the walls of my home
They're reading, "Turn off the radio, turn off the radio"
I will always remember
Making out 'til the sun went down
Counting stars from the hood of a car
Catching my friends as they were falling down
Rise and shine to a headache and a question
My keys were lost and my morals came up missing
Opportunities were open for the taking
I tried to leave but couldn't keep the floors from shaking
I'm digging a hole for the days of the old
I'll put them two feet deep so I can reach 'em if I need 'em
Fingerprints show on the walls of my home
They're reading, "Turn off the radio, turn off the radio"
I will always remember
Making out 'til the sun went down
Counting stars from the hood of a car
Catching my friends as they were falling down
Take me back to the ocean
Right before we had to drive away
We made a promise when we said goodbye
We swore it wouldn't be the last time
This is where the summer ends (where the summer ends)
No more clothes left, lie in the sand
It was good, no, it was amazing
Tell me that you won't, won't forget about me
I will always remember
Making out 'til the sun went down
Counting stars from the hood of a car
Catching my friends as they were falling down
Take me back to the ocean
Right before we had to drive away
We made a promise when we said goodbye
We swore it wouldn't be the last time
Swore it wouldn't be the last time, the last time
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Buried and turn off the radio, turn off the radio "they're reading turn off the radio, turn off the radio."
other than that, good. (:
i loove this sonnng.