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"
Don't know who I am no more
For you I try to change
Keep messing with my head
Wanna be myself instead
It has been too hard on us
Thought we were so in love but I was wrong
You didn't want what I wanted
And I've had enough
Had enough of playing games
The lies you said
The reason that I must let go
The things you put me through
You may never know
I know why it's taking all of this time
You're the reason why I cry
Now I know why I can't see
I can't see the girl you want me to be
When I look in the mirror
(When I look in the mirror)
You don't know what you want so I'll leave
I have got to be me
(I've got to be me)
'Cause what you want isn't me in the mirror
You say you love me but
I think you see someone else
Always reminding me
That I'm not perfect enough for you, boy
I deserve so much more
I can't keep you happy
If I ain't happy myself
Had enough of playing games
The lies you said
The reason why I must let go
The things you put me through
You will never know
I know why it's taking all of this time
You're the reason why I cry
Now I know what I can't see
I can't see the girl you want me to be
When I look in the mirror
You don't know what you want so I'll leave
(What do you want me to be)
I have got to be me
'Cause what you want isn't me in the mirror
I wanna love someone
Who loves me for me, yeah, for me, yeah
I wanna love someone
Who loves me for, for me
I can't see the girl, no
I can't see the girl you want me to be
(I can't see)
When I look in the mirror
You don't know what you want so I'll leave
I have got to be me
'Cause what you want isn't me in the mirror
I can't see the girl you want me to be
(What I wanna be)
When I look in the mirror
(Look in the mirror)
You don't know what you want so I'll leave
(I gotta leave)
I have got to be me
'Cause what you want isn't me in the mirror
For you I try to change
Keep messing with my head
Wanna be myself instead
It has been too hard on us
Thought we were so in love but I was wrong
You didn't want what I wanted
And I've had enough
Had enough of playing games
The lies you said
The reason that I must let go
The things you put me through
You may never know
I know why it's taking all of this time
You're the reason why I cry
Now I know why I can't see
I can't see the girl you want me to be
When I look in the mirror
(When I look in the mirror)
You don't know what you want so I'll leave
I have got to be me
(I've got to be me)
'Cause what you want isn't me in the mirror
You say you love me but
I think you see someone else
Always reminding me
That I'm not perfect enough for you, boy
I deserve so much more
I can't keep you happy
If I ain't happy myself
Had enough of playing games
The lies you said
The reason why I must let go
The things you put me through
You will never know
I know why it's taking all of this time
You're the reason why I cry
Now I know what I can't see
I can't see the girl you want me to be
When I look in the mirror
You don't know what you want so I'll leave
(What do you want me to be)
I have got to be me
'Cause what you want isn't me in the mirror
I wanna love someone
Who loves me for me, yeah, for me, yeah
I wanna love someone
Who loves me for, for me
I can't see the girl, no
I can't see the girl you want me to be
(I can't see)
When I look in the mirror
You don't know what you want so I'll leave
I have got to be me
'Cause what you want isn't me in the mirror
I can't see the girl you want me to be
(What I wanna be)
When I look in the mirror
(Look in the mirror)
You don't know what you want so I'll leave
(I gotta leave)
I have got to be me
'Cause what you want isn't me in the mirror
Lyrics submitted by PrincessMPA
Mirror Lyrics as written by Matthew Lawrence Marvin Paul Ambrosius
Lyrics © RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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