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'm on fire flying fast flying high
I should have stayed, you'd have left me
I gone too fast we're goin to crash
It's suicide if you let me.
Its gotta hold up so we got a shot
come on and go
Its gotta hold up so we got a shot
come on and go
Its coming off it will shock you so hard
Its a nervous desire
It's getting late
I'm goin to feint
Something in my head
its so quiet
Its gotta hold up so we got a shot
come on and go
Its gotta hold up so we got a shot
come on and go
Whenever you feel, like I feel
Somethings gone wrong
Well I wont be here to clean up this mess.
You better change your ways
You better change today
My head's so strong you don't know what I'm on
Dont even care so much to fight ya
I'm built for power in every hour
I guess you win if I let ya.
Its gotta hold up so we got a shot
come on and go
Its gotta hold up so we got a shot
come on and go
You're talking crap with your trash can mouth
With every word comes a judder
What's going on why don't you hold that song
Speak straight dont stutter stutter stutter
Its gotta hold up so we got a shot
come on and go
Its gotta hold up so we got a shot
come on and go
Whenever you feel, like I feel
Somethings gone wrong
Well I wont be here to clean up this mess.
You better change your ways
You better change today
Whenever you feel, like I feel
Something has gone wrong
Well I wont be here to clean up this mess.
You better change your ways
You better change today.
I should have stayed, you'd have left me
I gone too fast we're goin to crash
It's suicide if you let me.
Its gotta hold up so we got a shot
come on and go
Its gotta hold up so we got a shot
come on and go
Its coming off it will shock you so hard
Its a nervous desire
It's getting late
I'm goin to feint
Something in my head
its so quiet
Its gotta hold up so we got a shot
come on and go
Its gotta hold up so we got a shot
come on and go
Whenever you feel, like I feel
Somethings gone wrong
Well I wont be here to clean up this mess.
You better change your ways
You better change today
My head's so strong you don't know what I'm on
Dont even care so much to fight ya
I'm built for power in every hour
I guess you win if I let ya.
Its gotta hold up so we got a shot
come on and go
Its gotta hold up so we got a shot
come on and go
You're talking crap with your trash can mouth
With every word comes a judder
What's going on why don't you hold that song
Speak straight dont stutter stutter stutter
Its gotta hold up so we got a shot
come on and go
Its gotta hold up so we got a shot
come on and go
Whenever you feel, like I feel
Somethings gone wrong
Well I wont be here to clean up this mess.
You better change your ways
You better change today
Whenever you feel, like I feel
Something has gone wrong
Well I wont be here to clean up this mess.
You better change your ways
You better change today.
Lyrics submitted by dannycrisp
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eww I'm sure thats what I put originally when i copied and pasted it
obviously for wome reason I put 'what' instead which makes little sense.