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"
Would you believe me
If I said I was sorry?
The question wasn't meant to hurt
It was just my fear of losing you
And now you're filling
All the space that surrounds you
I'll soon be tucked away
Underneath your bed
Where you gave yourself to me
Where I gave myself to you
Maybe it's all for the best
But I just don't see any good in this, no
Maybe we'll find something better
But the lovers that leave us
Will always hold the place
And maybe it was wrong of me
To think I could keep you
And maybe it's the last few drinks
Taking over my mouth and all I've been thinking
I want you to know
That I am fine here without you
But I can't bring myself
To lie to you
And since we're being honest
I feel I should tell you
I've been filling up the empty space
Between you and I
Between you and I
She could never compare to you
Between you and I
I still keep your pictures underneath my bed
Where she gives herself to me
Where I give myself to you
Maybe it's all for the best
But I just don't see any good in this, no
Maybe we'll find something better
But the lovers that leave us
Will always hold the place, yes, yeah
Maybe it's all for the best
But I just don't see any good in this, no
Maybe we'll find something better
But the lovers that leave us
Will always hold the place
Yeah, the lovers that leave us
Will always hold the place
If I said I was sorry?
The question wasn't meant to hurt
It was just my fear of losing you
And now you're filling
All the space that surrounds you
I'll soon be tucked away
Underneath your bed
Where you gave yourself to me
Where I gave myself to you
Maybe it's all for the best
But I just don't see any good in this, no
Maybe we'll find something better
But the lovers that leave us
Will always hold the place
And maybe it was wrong of me
To think I could keep you
And maybe it's the last few drinks
Taking over my mouth and all I've been thinking
I want you to know
That I am fine here without you
But I can't bring myself
To lie to you
And since we're being honest
I feel I should tell you
I've been filling up the empty space
Between you and I
Between you and I
She could never compare to you
Between you and I
I still keep your pictures underneath my bed
Where she gives herself to me
Where I give myself to you
Maybe it's all for the best
But I just don't see any good in this, no
Maybe we'll find something better
But the lovers that leave us
Will always hold the place, yes, yeah
Maybe it's all for the best
But I just don't see any good in this, no
Maybe we'll find something better
But the lovers that leave us
Will always hold the place
Yeah, the lovers that leave us
Will always hold the place
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