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"
What'll I do if you never wanna come back
Sittin' in a city that is always on the attack
What'll I do if you never want me back
Come with me come back we'll live again
And what if I'm only satisfied when I'm at home
Sittin' in a city that'll never let me go
What if I'm only satisfied when I'm at home
What'll I do if you never find me again
Sittin' in a province a million miles from my friends
What'll I do if you never find me again
Come with me come back we'll live again
And what if I'm only satisfied when I'm at home
Sittin' in a city that'll never let me go
What if I'm only satisfied when I'm at home
Late at night
Sync your heart beat to mine
I will never try
To forget these northern lies
Late at night
Sink your heart into mine
I will never try
To forget your northern eyes
Run away again
From this Alberta pen
And I will never try
To forget your northern eyes
Run away again
From this Alberta pen
And I will never try
To forget your northern eyes
Meet me there again
Under the lights at the Ledge
And we will burn our eyes
Seeking out these purple nights
Meet me there again
Under the lights at the Ledge
And we will burn our eyes
Seeking out these purple nights
Sittin' in a city that is always on the attack
What'll I do if you never want me back
Come with me come back we'll live again
And what if I'm only satisfied when I'm at home
Sittin' in a city that'll never let me go
What if I'm only satisfied when I'm at home
What'll I do if you never find me again
Sittin' in a province a million miles from my friends
What'll I do if you never find me again
Come with me come back we'll live again
And what if I'm only satisfied when I'm at home
Sittin' in a city that'll never let me go
What if I'm only satisfied when I'm at home
Late at night
Sync your heart beat to mine
I will never try
To forget these northern lies
Late at night
Sink your heart into mine
I will never try
To forget your northern eyes
Run away again
From this Alberta pen
And I will never try
To forget your northern eyes
Run away again
From this Alberta pen
And I will never try
To forget your northern eyes
Meet me there again
Under the lights at the Ledge
And we will burn our eyes
Seeking out these purple nights
Meet me there again
Under the lights at the Ledge
And we will burn our eyes
Seeking out these purple nights
Lyrics submitted by Premaximum, edited by eyeofthetigers
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