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"
A little early in spring for this kind of thing
She's shivering alone
I bumped into you somehow
A duct-taped vest was the party best
But it’s really all I own
So why we waiting now?
And there’s all these winter stars still flying...
Cassiopeia!
Why we waiting now?
This, this is, this is the last time,
(Because I don't mind)
This, this is, this is the goodbye
Lightning comes and lightning goes
And it’s all the same to me
Let it in
Through the backs of broke windows
So I can finally breathe and release
Into one thousand pieces I have broke into
Over you
And we'll say the break of dawn,
It goes on and on and on
Better I check myself
‘Cause there’s no one else
It’s just us hanging out
So why we waiting now?
'Cause we can live like kings
Yeah take a risk or live in doubt
Why we waiting now and now and now and now?
And lightning comes and lightning goes
It’s all the same to me
Let it in
Through the backs of broke windows
And I can finally breathe and release
Into one thousand pieces I have broke into
Over you
And we'll say the break of dawn,
It goes on and on and on
This, this is, this is the last time,
(And its alright)
This, this is, this is the goodbye
(And its goodbye)
This, this is, this is the last time,
(And its alright)
This, this is, this is the goodbye
Well some girls break you down
Just to see you come undone
So why we waiting now?
And all the stars can lift the curse
Cause you and I are one
That's the universe
And now and now and now
And lightning comes and lightning goes
It’s all the same to me
Let it in
Through the backs of broke windows
So I can finally breathe and release
Into one thousand pieces I have broke into
Over you
And we'll say the break of dawn
Goes on and on and on
Lightning comes and lightning goes
It’s all the same to me
Let it in
Through the backs of broke windows
so I can finally breathe and release
Into one thousand pieces I have broke into
Over you
And the break goes on and on
It goes on and on and on
She's shivering alone
I bumped into you somehow
A duct-taped vest was the party best
But it’s really all I own
So why we waiting now?
And there’s all these winter stars still flying...
Cassiopeia!
Why we waiting now?
This, this is, this is the last time,
(Because I don't mind)
This, this is, this is the goodbye
Lightning comes and lightning goes
And it’s all the same to me
Let it in
Through the backs of broke windows
So I can finally breathe and release
Into one thousand pieces I have broke into
Over you
And we'll say the break of dawn,
It goes on and on and on
Better I check myself
‘Cause there’s no one else
It’s just us hanging out
So why we waiting now?
'Cause we can live like kings
Yeah take a risk or live in doubt
Why we waiting now and now and now and now?
And lightning comes and lightning goes
It’s all the same to me
Let it in
Through the backs of broke windows
And I can finally breathe and release
Into one thousand pieces I have broke into
Over you
And we'll say the break of dawn,
It goes on and on and on
This, this is, this is the last time,
(And its alright)
This, this is, this is the goodbye
(And its goodbye)
This, this is, this is the last time,
(And its alright)
This, this is, this is the goodbye
Well some girls break you down
Just to see you come undone
So why we waiting now?
And all the stars can lift the curse
Cause you and I are one
That's the universe
And now and now and now
And lightning comes and lightning goes
It’s all the same to me
Let it in
Through the backs of broke windows
So I can finally breathe and release
Into one thousand pieces I have broke into
Over you
And we'll say the break of dawn
Goes on and on and on
Lightning comes and lightning goes
It’s all the same to me
Let it in
Through the backs of broke windows
so I can finally breathe and release
Into one thousand pieces I have broke into
Over you
And the break goes on and on
It goes on and on and on
Lyrics submitted by shinzon
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