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"
It's been a long time
And I don't think about the show no more
I wanna go home
I wanna go home home home home home home home home
it's been a long time
And I don't think I like the road no more
I wanna go home
I wanna go home home home home home home home
just relax
And take the red one first
So you can go back to work
The band can go back to work work work work work
Just relax
And take the red one first
So you can go back to work
The band can go back to work work work work work
I'm driving all night
And I don't know where we were yesterday
Is it time we play. which ways the stage?
the crowd was on fire
And I don't recognize a single face
Oh by the way
Can we stay at your place?
just relax and take the red one first
So you can go back to work
The bay can go back to work work work work
Just relax and take the red one first
So you can go back to work
The band can go back to work work work work work work
I'm out of my mind
And I don't care what the doctors say
I'm not okay, I'm not okay k k k k k
it's been a long time
And I don't think you love me any more
Pick up your phone
I wanna go home
just relax and take the red one first
So you can go back to work the band
Can go back to work work work work
just relax and take the red one first
So you can go back to work the band
Can go back to work work work work work work work work work
And I don't think about the show no more
I wanna go home
I wanna go home home home home home home home home
it's been a long time
And I don't think I like the road no more
I wanna go home
I wanna go home home home home home home home
just relax
And take the red one first
So you can go back to work
The band can go back to work work work work work
Just relax
And take the red one first
So you can go back to work
The band can go back to work work work work work
I'm driving all night
And I don't know where we were yesterday
Is it time we play. which ways the stage?
the crowd was on fire
And I don't recognize a single face
Oh by the way
Can we stay at your place?
just relax and take the red one first
So you can go back to work
The bay can go back to work work work work
Just relax and take the red one first
So you can go back to work
The band can go back to work work work work work work
I'm out of my mind
And I don't care what the doctors say
I'm not okay, I'm not okay k k k k k
it's been a long time
And I don't think you love me any more
Pick up your phone
I wanna go home
just relax and take the red one first
So you can go back to work the band
Can go back to work work work work
just relax and take the red one first
So you can go back to work the band
Can go back to work work work work work work work work work
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I can't believe that I'm the first to post on this song. This is such an emotional song. To me, this song is about a man that has everything, but feels like he has nothing. It's about hitting it big, and wishing you never had. It's about longing for the simple things in life that a star will never have again. A great song! Hope to hear more opinions on it.
does anyone else get the Matrix vibe/reference? Take the red one first, so you can go back to work. so they can go back to work