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"
Suck in, blow out
The same air in the same town
Oh it goes on and on and on and on
Gaze out, double glaze in
Heavy eyelids keep my thoughts in
Oh it goes on and on and on and on and on but...
Meanwhile in Hollywood
Oh this world’s over you know
And in suburbia
Oh this world’s over you know
But then I guess what would I know?
Is there anyone else out there?
Have a moment to themselves
While they’re stacking some shelves
In the new complex
Yes, we’re all impressed by your brand new multi-storey car park
and state of the art shopping mall
(Mark II) You’re oh oh oh
(Comfortable) You’re oh oh oh
(Respectable) And you’re oh oh oh
We still suck in, blow out
The same air in the same town
Oh it goes on and on and on and on
Gaze out, double glaze in
Heavy eyelids keep my thoughts in
Oh it goes on and on and on and on
On and on and on and on and on but...
Meanwhile in Hollywood
Oh this world’s over you know
And in suburbia
Oh this world’s over you know
But then I guess what would I know?
You have gotta have dreams
And they tear at the seams
Like sleeves with leaves and LSD
So your mind can explode
You’re hired by a bigger, better man than yourself
(Mark II) You’re oh oh oh
(Comfortable) You’re oh oh oh
(Respectable) And you’re oh oh oh
We still suck in, blow out
The same air in the same town
Oh it goes on and on and on and on
Gaze out, double glaze in
Heavy eyelids keep my thoughts in
Oh it goes on and on and on and on
On and on and on and on and on but...
Meanwhile in Hollywood
And in suburbia
Meanwhile in Hollywood
And in the Middle East
It goes on and on and on and on
And on and on and on and on
And on and on and on and on
And on and on and on but...
Meanwhile in Hollywood
Oh this world’s over you know
And in suburbia
Oh this world’s over you know
But then I guess what would I know?
If you love them, let them go
The same air in the same town
Oh it goes on and on and on and on
Gaze out, double glaze in
Heavy eyelids keep my thoughts in
Oh it goes on and on and on and on and on but...
Meanwhile in Hollywood
Oh this world’s over you know
And in suburbia
Oh this world’s over you know
But then I guess what would I know?
Is there anyone else out there?
Have a moment to themselves
While they’re stacking some shelves
In the new complex
Yes, we’re all impressed by your brand new multi-storey car park
and state of the art shopping mall
(Mark II) You’re oh oh oh
(Comfortable) You’re oh oh oh
(Respectable) And you’re oh oh oh
We still suck in, blow out
The same air in the same town
Oh it goes on and on and on and on
Gaze out, double glaze in
Heavy eyelids keep my thoughts in
Oh it goes on and on and on and on
On and on and on and on and on but...
Meanwhile in Hollywood
Oh this world’s over you know
And in suburbia
Oh this world’s over you know
But then I guess what would I know?
You have gotta have dreams
And they tear at the seams
Like sleeves with leaves and LSD
So your mind can explode
You’re hired by a bigger, better man than yourself
(Mark II) You’re oh oh oh
(Comfortable) You’re oh oh oh
(Respectable) And you’re oh oh oh
We still suck in, blow out
The same air in the same town
Oh it goes on and on and on and on
Gaze out, double glaze in
Heavy eyelids keep my thoughts in
Oh it goes on and on and on and on
On and on and on and on and on but...
Meanwhile in Hollywood
And in suburbia
Meanwhile in Hollywood
And in the Middle East
It goes on and on and on and on
And on and on and on and on
And on and on and on and on
And on and on and on but...
Meanwhile in Hollywood
Oh this world’s over you know
And in suburbia
Oh this world’s over you know
But then I guess what would I know?
If you love them, let them go
Lyrics submitted by empricaltruth
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I think it's "marketing" rather than Mark II. Other than that I think you have it spot on.