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 once knew a boy with his hand on a bottle
He kept for the end of the day
He would cradle it close to his heart
And explain that it helped keep the demons away
He would drink till he's dizzy and pass out on Wednesdays
And claim that he felt no pain
I made it out from this scene of addiction
But everyone mostly stayed
Hey hey hey
I once knew a boy with his nose to a toilet
And a habit that grew with each day
He was loud and obnoxious
And perfectly cautious to drive every person away
So he turned to a powder to mask all his failures
That managed to numb the pain
I made it out from this scene of distraction
But everyone mostly stayed
Hey hey hey
I once knew a girl with her pants round her ankles
And a different boy every day
She would tell them she loved them
And emptily fuck them till everything went away
She would cry into pillows and write in a diary
"I'd much prefer death to this pain"
I made it out from this scene of depression
But everyone mostly stayed
Hey hey hey
Hey hey hey
We are calling for help
Hey hey hey
We can't deal with this by ourselves
Hey hey hey
We are calling for help
No one listens
When we need it
And we need it
I once knew a town with an absence of sunlight
Where the same thing would happen each day
People got burned out and stopped having futures
And watched what they had slip away
It's an American story about an excess of money
And kids who destroy what they've made
I made it out from this scene of destruction
But everyone mostly stayed
He kept for the end of the day
He would cradle it close to his heart
And explain that it helped keep the demons away
He would drink till he's dizzy and pass out on Wednesdays
And claim that he felt no pain
I made it out from this scene of addiction
But everyone mostly stayed
Hey hey hey
I once knew a boy with his nose to a toilet
And a habit that grew with each day
He was loud and obnoxious
And perfectly cautious to drive every person away
So he turned to a powder to mask all his failures
That managed to numb the pain
I made it out from this scene of distraction
But everyone mostly stayed
Hey hey hey
I once knew a girl with her pants round her ankles
And a different boy every day
She would tell them she loved them
And emptily fuck them till everything went away
She would cry into pillows and write in a diary
"I'd much prefer death to this pain"
I made it out from this scene of depression
But everyone mostly stayed
Hey hey hey
Hey hey hey
We are calling for help
Hey hey hey
We can't deal with this by ourselves
Hey hey hey
We are calling for help
No one listens
When we need it
And we need it
I once knew a town with an absence of sunlight
Where the same thing would happen each day
People got burned out and stopped having futures
And watched what they had slip away
It's an American story about an excess of money
And kids who destroy what they've made
I made it out from this scene of destruction
But everyone mostly stayed
Lyrics submitted by SisterCity
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