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 a happy guy
I've got a happy life
Two happy kids
And a happy wife
Flowers are blooming
It's a beautiful day
I've got an upper class job
With upper class pay
But I've got a little problem
You see, with me
A major physical deformity
It takes me twice as long
To stop and smell the roses
'Cause I've had to live my life
Having two noses kids understand
They think it's neat
At birthday parties
I'm an added treat
Wife loves me for my mind
Doesn't care about my looks
She's so damn kind
It's really no fun
When the nostrils
Of both noses run
Yeah, that really sucks
And when I think back
To my days of grammar school
I was the one who got picked on
When the kids were being cruel
A major problem in high school
Was if you had acne tell you
Pinocchio had nothing on me
Summer, I used a surplus of zinc oxide
Spring, allergy season caused me to hide
Winter would come along and noses would freeze
Autumn was not so bad
The smell of burning leaves
Paid real well
So my job's okay
I'm the head tester
Of nasal spray
Boss thinks I'm weird
But I don't care
I just do my job
And I'm outta there
I'll fill you in on
What's my personal hell
When someone farts
I get twice the smell
Another duty that can prove
To be a scare is when
I have to trim my nostril hair
Just so you know
It's in my head
I'll get a nose job
Before I'm dead
Years of planning have gone into this
I'll get the left nose trimmed
'Cause it's too big, yeah
I've got to get that taken care of
You know you put your left nose in
You put your left nose out
And you put your left nose in
And then you shake it all about
You do the hokey pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about
I've got two noses
I've got two noses
Why'd this have to happen to me
I've got a happy life
Two happy kids
And a happy wife
Flowers are blooming
It's a beautiful day
I've got an upper class job
With upper class pay
But I've got a little problem
You see, with me
A major physical deformity
It takes me twice as long
To stop and smell the roses
'Cause I've had to live my life
Having two noses kids understand
They think it's neat
At birthday parties
I'm an added treat
Wife loves me for my mind
Doesn't care about my looks
She's so damn kind
It's really no fun
When the nostrils
Of both noses run
Yeah, that really sucks
And when I think back
To my days of grammar school
I was the one who got picked on
When the kids were being cruel
A major problem in high school
Was if you had acne tell you
Pinocchio had nothing on me
Summer, I used a surplus of zinc oxide
Spring, allergy season caused me to hide
Winter would come along and noses would freeze
Autumn was not so bad
The smell of burning leaves
Paid real well
So my job's okay
I'm the head tester
Of nasal spray
Boss thinks I'm weird
But I don't care
I just do my job
And I'm outta there
I'll fill you in on
What's my personal hell
When someone farts
I get twice the smell
Another duty that can prove
To be a scare is when
I have to trim my nostril hair
Just so you know
It's in my head
I'll get a nose job
Before I'm dead
Years of planning have gone into this
I'll get the left nose trimmed
'Cause it's too big, yeah
I've got to get that taken care of
You know you put your left nose in
You put your left nose out
And you put your left nose in
And then you shake it all about
You do the hokey pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about
I've got two noses
I've got two noses
Why'd this have to happen to me
Lyrics submitted by fractured_sanity
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