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"
Girl
Tell me what's happening now
I wanna make it work but
Tell me what's the use
You keep on listening
To what your friends keep saying
And you wont even let
Me give you an excuse
All of a sudden
Everything that I say don't mean nothing
I thought that my heart would be enough
Every relationship revolves around trust and loving
But you make it hard to stay in love
'Cause I feel like I'm guilty until proven innocent
You caught me redhanded
You make me feel like a criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
A criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
I feel like a criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
A criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
Now look
Look
In the beginning
I tried to play it by the book
It didn't work
Didn't work
Now matter how hard
That I tried to give you my side of the story
You still believe you girls
All of a sudden
Everything that I say don't mean nothing
I thought that my heart would be enough
Every relationship revolves around trust and loving
But you make it hard to stay in love
'Cause I feel like I'm guilty until proven innocent
You caught me redhanded
You make me feel like a criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
A criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
I feel like a criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
A criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
'Cause I feel like I'm guilty until proven innocent
You caught me redhanded
You make me feel like a criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
A criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
I feel like a criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
A criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
Tell me what's happening now
I wanna make it work but
Tell me what's the use
You keep on listening
To what your friends keep saying
And you wont even let
Me give you an excuse
All of a sudden
Everything that I say don't mean nothing
I thought that my heart would be enough
Every relationship revolves around trust and loving
But you make it hard to stay in love
'Cause I feel like I'm guilty until proven innocent
You caught me redhanded
You make me feel like a criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
A criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
I feel like a criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
A criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
Now look
Look
In the beginning
I tried to play it by the book
It didn't work
Didn't work
Now matter how hard
That I tried to give you my side of the story
You still believe you girls
All of a sudden
Everything that I say don't mean nothing
I thought that my heart would be enough
Every relationship revolves around trust and loving
But you make it hard to stay in love
'Cause I feel like I'm guilty until proven innocent
You caught me redhanded
You make me feel like a criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
A criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
I feel like a criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
A criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
'Cause I feel like I'm guilty until proven innocent
You caught me redhanded
You make me feel like a criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
A criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
I feel like a criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
A criminal
Lock me up, throw away the key
Lyrics submitted by dontwasteyoursong
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