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"
My hole, I'll get my hole, I'll get my hole
Get my hole, get my hole and I'll find out more
It's a choo-choo train, a rocket launch
If we have a hormone race
I'm bound to finish first
Can you see in the dark?
Can you see the look on your face?
The flashing white light's been turned off,
You don't know know who's in your bed
It takes more than fucking someone you don't know to keep warm
Do you really think now for a heart's beat you'll find your love in a hole?
Oh, you won't find love in a— won't find love in a hole
It takes more than fucking someone to keep yourself warm
I'm drunk, I'm drunk
And you're probably on pills
If we've both got the same diseases
It's irrelevant girl
And the room fills with steam
Oh, evaporates, disappears
My point of entry
is the same way that I leave
Can you see in the dark?
Can you see the look on your face?
The flashing white light's been turned off
You don't know know who's in your bed
It takes more than fucking someone you don't know to keep warm
Do you really think now for a heart's beat you'll find your love in a hole?
But, you won't find love in a— won't find love in a hole
It takes more than fucking someone to keep yourself warm
You won't find love in a— won't find love in a hole
It takes more than fucking someone to keep yourself—
See in the dark!
Can you see the look on your face?
The flashing white light's been turned off
You don't know know who's in your bed
It takes more than fucking someone you don't know to keep warm
Do you really think now for a heart's beat you'll find your love in a hole?
Get my hole, get my hole and I'll find out more
It's a choo-choo train, a rocket launch
If we have a hormone race
I'm bound to finish first
Can you see in the dark?
Can you see the look on your face?
The flashing white light's been turned off,
You don't know know who's in your bed
It takes more than fucking someone you don't know to keep warm
Do you really think now for a heart's beat you'll find your love in a hole?
Oh, you won't find love in a— won't find love in a hole
It takes more than fucking someone to keep yourself warm
I'm drunk, I'm drunk
And you're probably on pills
If we've both got the same diseases
It's irrelevant girl
And the room fills with steam
Oh, evaporates, disappears
My point of entry
is the same way that I leave
Can you see in the dark?
Can you see the look on your face?
The flashing white light's been turned off
You don't know know who's in your bed
It takes more than fucking someone you don't know to keep warm
Do you really think now for a heart's beat you'll find your love in a hole?
But, you won't find love in a— won't find love in a hole
It takes more than fucking someone to keep yourself warm
You won't find love in a— won't find love in a hole
It takes more than fucking someone to keep yourself—
See in the dark!
Can you see the look on your face?
The flashing white light's been turned off
You don't know know who's in your bed
It takes more than fucking someone you don't know to keep warm
Do you really think now for a heart's beat you'll find your love in a hole?
Lyrics submitted by heyjuderefrain, edited by krkenney88, mtj3, Beaverwizard, tuesdaymush
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