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’m keeping up keeping up with the time lapse lifeline
And they can run they can run from the font to the last rites
And we can hear we can hear the first beat to the flatline
I’m keeping up keeping up with the time lapse lifeline
And once it’s done
Oh we dreamed a life
It was just like that was just like that
And just like that and just like that it’s done
Back it up back it up
Stop fast forward rewind
And watch the sun watch the moon taking turns in the same sky
And you were dead as the leaves now you’re new like the springtime
Back it up back it up
Stop fast forward rewind
And once it’s done
Oh we dreamed a life
It was just like that was just like that
And just like that and just like that it’s done
Oh we dreamed a life
It was just like that was just like that
And just like that and just like that it’s done
Still we stand with the help of a steady hand
Capture images of boy and man
Until its done
And 7 years combined is just a flicker of a neon sign
Little negatives of hopes refined
Until they’re done oh they’re done
Oh we dreamed a life
It was just like, was just like that
And just like that and just like that it’s done
Oh we dreamed a life
It was just like was just like that
And just like that and just like that it’s done
Oh we dreamed a life
It was just like was just like that
And just like that and just like that it’s done
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