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"
Turning off and toughening up; Well that's a dumb idea of smart
But you'll have to live with yourself; Just you and your unique beautiful
woman's entitlement
No one know what I love you means; But I know it's a thing you'll run up
against inside yourself; Now you're worried about what our friends say
After you had everything your own way
You made a choice to be dishonest with me; You made a choice to give up
on everything; You've chosen to stomp on my vulnerability; And now you're
vain enough to expect sympathy
How old is this perfect child? How old is this perfect child?
I've kept my cool while I've destroyed most things I've ever destroyed
I can remain all la-dee-da while mid-tantrum; What's the difference cool and
collected or otherwise?
I stand doomed and accused; But completely accustomed to your so hard won
so-whatsdom; So what's the difference cool and collected or otherwise?
Still a pilgrim or a pirate; Still pointed towards the shore; Still a-hoy and it's hot
today matees; Still a wonder and a bore
But weren't you aware of it all; And weren't you in awe of the claw
That clenched you all over and scared you and just left you blaming
Doomed to do some so-and-so; And to me you'll be some so-and-so
And I'll be just your old ex-so-and-so; I'll see you on the street sometime
so-and-so; And introduce you to my new so-and-so; And I'll politely
shake hands with your so-and-so; I'll smile at the son of so-and-so
And your child to me will just be some so-and-so
But you'll have to live with yourself; Just you and your unique beautiful
woman's entitlement
No one know what I love you means; But I know it's a thing you'll run up
against inside yourself; Now you're worried about what our friends say
After you had everything your own way
You made a choice to be dishonest with me; You made a choice to give up
on everything; You've chosen to stomp on my vulnerability; And now you're
vain enough to expect sympathy
How old is this perfect child? How old is this perfect child?
I've kept my cool while I've destroyed most things I've ever destroyed
I can remain all la-dee-da while mid-tantrum; What's the difference cool and
collected or otherwise?
I stand doomed and accused; But completely accustomed to your so hard won
so-whatsdom; So what's the difference cool and collected or otherwise?
Still a pilgrim or a pirate; Still pointed towards the shore; Still a-hoy and it's hot
today matees; Still a wonder and a bore
But weren't you aware of it all; And weren't you in awe of the claw
That clenched you all over and scared you and just left you blaming
Doomed to do some so-and-so; And to me you'll be some so-and-so
And I'll be just your old ex-so-and-so; I'll see you on the street sometime
so-and-so; And introduce you to my new so-and-so; And I'll politely
shake hands with your so-and-so; I'll smile at the son of so-and-so
And your child to me will just be some so-and-so
Lyrics submitted by idelfoguerrero
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