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 used to write some poems, I wrote some songs
We had a good thing going and now it's gone
I'll be a solo act and keep all of the profit from now on
The four of us would go out and now we're three
And ever since the blowout you're hard to see
If it's not her the only thing that I can think of is it's me
And I don't want to always be
Known as the ex of Y or Z
And I don't want you to think of her when you think of me
I don't want you to think of single with sympathy
You got troubles of your own
One plus one minus one is one, not just oh point five
I'm just happy to be here, happy that I'm alive
Try some troubles of your own sometime
Try some troubles of your own
Leave mine alone
Now that I'm forgotten and out of view
Don't want to be a problem or bother you
And make the people at your party not divisible by two
No need to still remind me that she's not here
I know she's way behind me in second gear
But memories in my rear view mirror are closer than they appear
And I'm content to stay right here
I got no hope, I got no fear
And I don't want you to think of her when you think of me
I don't want you to think of single with sympathy
You got troubles of your own
One plus one minus one is one, and not just a half
I still know how to smile and I still know how to laugh
Try some troubles of your own sometime
Try some troubles of your own
Leave mine alone and they can die
I'm going to fake their suicide
They'll leave a note behind that says they couldn't live this way
And I'm prepared to let them go
And I'm prepared to let her go
And I'm prepared to let her I don't know
And I don't want you to think of her when you think of me
I don't want you to think of single with sympathy
You got troubles of your own
One plus one minus one is one, not just oh point five
I'm just happy to be here, happy that I'm alive
Try some troubles of your own sometime
Try some troubles of your own
Leave mine alone
We had a good thing going and now it's gone
I'll be a solo act and keep all of the profit from now on
The four of us would go out and now we're three
And ever since the blowout you're hard to see
If it's not her the only thing that I can think of is it's me
And I don't want to always be
Known as the ex of Y or Z
And I don't want you to think of her when you think of me
I don't want you to think of single with sympathy
You got troubles of your own
One plus one minus one is one, not just oh point five
I'm just happy to be here, happy that I'm alive
Try some troubles of your own sometime
Try some troubles of your own
Leave mine alone
Now that I'm forgotten and out of view
Don't want to be a problem or bother you
And make the people at your party not divisible by two
No need to still remind me that she's not here
I know she's way behind me in second gear
But memories in my rear view mirror are closer than they appear
And I'm content to stay right here
I got no hope, I got no fear
And I don't want you to think of her when you think of me
I don't want you to think of single with sympathy
You got troubles of your own
One plus one minus one is one, and not just a half
I still know how to smile and I still know how to laugh
Try some troubles of your own sometime
Try some troubles of your own
Leave mine alone and they can die
I'm going to fake their suicide
They'll leave a note behind that says they couldn't live this way
And I'm prepared to let them go
And I'm prepared to let her go
And I'm prepared to let her I don't know
And I don't want you to think of her when you think of me
I don't want you to think of single with sympathy
You got troubles of your own
One plus one minus one is one, not just oh point five
I'm just happy to be here, happy that I'm alive
Try some troubles of your own sometime
Try some troubles of your own
Leave mine alone
Lyrics submitted by xtreme2252
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