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"
sitting on the limit
I have to hold myself back
I wanna get there before the sun goes down
so we have to make tracks
and I'm always in a hurry
I'm alwasy behind the time
I rush in to make a fire
collect the paper and wood
I'm even in a hurry to get to the roach
which is never good
so why all this hurry
why do I worry about time
I worry about time
I even hurry to light a candle
and to watch it go down
coz I want that feeling in my rear view mirror
of a disappearing town
so why all this hurry
why do I worry about time
I worry about time
I'm tired of all this hurry
I want to take it nice and slow
I dont know where I'm going
do I always need to know
I should just take it nice and
not always on the go
I should just take it nice and
I have to hold myself back
I wanna get there before the sun goes down
so we have to make tracks
and I'm always in a hurry
I'm alwasy behind the time
I rush in to make a fire
collect the paper and wood
I'm even in a hurry to get to the roach
which is never good
so why all this hurry
why do I worry about time
I worry about time
I even hurry to light a candle
and to watch it go down
coz I want that feeling in my rear view mirror
of a disappearing town
so why all this hurry
why do I worry about time
I worry about time
I'm tired of all this hurry
I want to take it nice and slow
I dont know where I'm going
do I always need to know
I should just take it nice and
not always on the go
I should just take it nice and
Lyrics submitted by walking blues
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