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"
Time always slips away
Curls up at age, and colors fade
Glossy paintings, wall to door
Size of the moment makes me feel so small
I'm not waiting for a change
I'm not waiting for a change
Can't feel passing days
There's a feeling that always stays
Warm memories, clutched too tight
Clouded vision masks my sight
I'm not waiting for a change
I'm not waiting for a change
I'm not waiting for a change
I'm not waiting for a change
Time slips away
Time slips away
Time slips away
Time slips away
Time slips away
Time slips away
Curls up at age, and colors fade
Glossy paintings, wall to door
Size of the moment makes me feel so small
I'm not waiting for a change
I'm not waiting for a change
Can't feel passing days
There's a feeling that always stays
Warm memories, clutched too tight
Clouded vision masks my sight
I'm not waiting for a change
I'm not waiting for a change
I'm not waiting for a change
I'm not waiting for a change
Time slips away
Time slips away
Time slips away
Time slips away
Time slips away
Time slips away
Lyrics submitted by SykoNachoman
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Time always slips away Curls up its edge And colors fade Caustic varnish Weathered doors Saturday morning Makes me feel so small
I'm not waiting for a change I'm not waiting for a change
Can't be a passing thing There's a feeling that always stays Warm memories clutched too tight Family days and massive fights
I'm not waiting for a change I'm not waiting for a change I'm not waiting for a change I'm not waiting for a change
Time slips away Time slips away Time slips away Time slips away Time slips away Time slips away
As for what I think it's about the narrator looking back on his childhood. The images of decay, and the aging of inanimate objects is symbolic of the effects of time on people. All always picture it as hte narrator walking around the now-abandoned farmhouse that he grew up in. Familiar colors all faded, everything changed and damaged with time, as he is. He is feeling old, and mortal, thinking about death, and missing his childhood.
That childhood is shown in almost the musical equivalent of a hyper-realist painting. First, in the standard, detail-obsessed, warts-and-all, but neutral stance of hyper-realism. The brief mention of the actual family is the inversion of that, the same neutrality in the ambiguous descriptions of the emotions rather than the details. The result is the questioning if the narrator's childhood was particularly sad or difficult, of was it just normal, and unremarkable?
A man depressed over his own mortality attempts to go back to his childhood, but finds that childhood lacking.