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"
If I had the chance to say
Remove the walls, lets clean the slate
Would it make us new?
Should we find a way to start
Without the mess we've made this far?
Would it make us new?
I've seen this movie once before
Don't need to see the end no
I cant get away and you will never leave me
Addicted to the game, its time to make it easy
I cant get enough, so I have to do the right thing
And give you back cause I'm done stealin'
If someone looked into our case
And said our files could be erased
Would that make us new?
Just tell me when and where to sign
I'll check in and do the time
And tell the truth
Cause I've seen this movie twice before
Don't need to see the end, no
I cant get away and you will never leave me
Addicted to the game, its time to make it easy
I cant get enough, so I have to do the right thing
And give you back cause I'm done stealin'
I know that we can make our dreams come true
Is a crime committed? we misunderstood
Oh yeah oh yeah!
Cause I'm done stealin'
If a jury read your mind
You'd go away for quite some time
Would that make us new?
I cant get away and you will never leave me
Addicted to the game, its time to make it easy
I cant get enough, so I have to do the right thing
And give you back cause I'm done stealin'
I cant get away and you will never leave me
Addicted to the game, its time to make it easy
I cant get enough, so I have to do the right thing
And give you back cause I'm done stealin'
Truly that is something I believe
Remove the walls, lets clean the slate
Would it make us new?
Should we find a way to start
Without the mess we've made this far?
Would it make us new?
I've seen this movie once before
Don't need to see the end no
I cant get away and you will never leave me
Addicted to the game, its time to make it easy
I cant get enough, so I have to do the right thing
And give you back cause I'm done stealin'
If someone looked into our case
And said our files could be erased
Would that make us new?
Just tell me when and where to sign
I'll check in and do the time
And tell the truth
Cause I've seen this movie twice before
Don't need to see the end, no
I cant get away and you will never leave me
Addicted to the game, its time to make it easy
I cant get enough, so I have to do the right thing
And give you back cause I'm done stealin'
I know that we can make our dreams come true
Is a crime committed? we misunderstood
Oh yeah oh yeah!
Cause I'm done stealin'
If a jury read your mind
You'd go away for quite some time
Would that make us new?
I cant get away and you will never leave me
Addicted to the game, its time to make it easy
I cant get enough, so I have to do the right thing
And give you back cause I'm done stealin'
I cant get away and you will never leave me
Addicted to the game, its time to make it easy
I cant get enough, so I have to do the right thing
And give you back cause I'm done stealin'
Truly that is something I believe
Lyrics submitted by flaviasayssss
Done Stealin' Lyrics as written by Tobias Karlsson Per Henrik Aldeheim
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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