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"
He plays
The sweetest melody
When I hear it
Takes over me
And I feel
Every strum
Of the strings
It reminds me
Of all the things
We used to be
Can't breathe at all
Cause you're coming
Coming through
My speaker
Speaker
Got me trying
To reach ya
Reach ya
But I got
To feature, feature
My electric guitar
Everytime
I'm by you, by you?
Everytime
I'm by him, by him
You're ripping up
On the chords
Playing my heart
Electric guitar (6x)
It kills me
That I can't be
With you
Thought I was the key
You're playing
Don't know
I just gotta be the one
You let bleed out
Wish I didn't know you
Got me feeling stuck
I can't let you go
Just my luck
Falling down
Without you
Can you pick me up
And I can get you
Off my head
Coming through
My speaker
Speaker
Got me trying
To reach ya
Reach ya
But I got to feature
Feature
My electric guitar
Everytime
I'm by you
By you?
Everytime
I'm by him
By him
You're ripping up
On the chords
Playing my heart
Electric guitar (6x)
I'm losing
My composure
Oh
I can't gain you over
You must think
That I'm crazy, girl
Please control me
With your melody
I'll play it
For the world
Cause I'm your girl
And I just wanna hear
(So)
Coming through
My speakers
Speaker
Got me trying
To reach ya
Reach ya
But I got to feature
Feature
My electric guitar
Everytime
I'm by you
By you?
Everytime
I'm by him
By him
You're ripping up
On the chords
Playing my heart
Electric guitar (9x)
The sweetest melody
When I hear it
Takes over me
And I feel
Every strum
Of the strings
It reminds me
Of all the things
We used to be
Can't breathe at all
Cause you're coming
Coming through
My speaker
Speaker
Got me trying
To reach ya
Reach ya
But I got
To feature, feature
My electric guitar
Everytime
I'm by you, by you?
Everytime
I'm by him, by him
You're ripping up
On the chords
Playing my heart
Electric guitar (6x)
It kills me
That I can't be
With you
Thought I was the key
You're playing
Don't know
I just gotta be the one
You let bleed out
Wish I didn't know you
Got me feeling stuck
I can't let you go
Just my luck
Falling down
Without you
Can you pick me up
And I can get you
Off my head
Coming through
My speaker
Speaker
Got me trying
To reach ya
Reach ya
But I got to feature
Feature
My electric guitar
Everytime
I'm by you
By you?
Everytime
I'm by him
By him
You're ripping up
On the chords
Playing my heart
Electric guitar (6x)
I'm losing
My composure
Oh
I can't gain you over
You must think
That I'm crazy, girl
Please control me
With your melody
I'll play it
For the world
Cause I'm your girl
And I just wanna hear
(So)
Coming through
My speakers
Speaker
Got me trying
To reach ya
Reach ya
But I got to feature
Feature
My electric guitar
Everytime
I'm by you
By you?
Everytime
I'm by him
By him
You're ripping up
On the chords
Playing my heart
Electric guitar (9x)
Lyrics submitted by Rafael Moliv
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