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"
Did you come up to me so your night would be cheaper?
Did you make up your mind about about me from the start?
Did you come here tonight to find something deeper?
Or did you just follow me home 'cause you're scared of the dark?
Did you, did you really think you'd found somebody?
Or did that vodka make you leave with me?
Ain't it funny how you wake up runnin'
When it felt so right last night
You can give her the world and then eight hours later
You can't even put a face to her name
If I don't even know her, how can I hate her?
Well you just stick to the rules and there's no one to blame
Did you, did you really think you'd found somebody?
Or did that vodka make you leave with me
Ain't it funny how you wake up runnin'
When it felt so right last night?
I promised you a part of my unwritten script and I told you
Stuff like I've been waiting for you all my life
You bragged about your hits on My space
And how your future looks so bright
Last night, oh yeah, you and I
Did you really think you'd found somebody?
Or did that vodka make you leave with me?
Ain't it funny how you wake up runnin'
When it felt so right last night?
(Last night)
Did you really think you'd found somebody?
(Last night)
Or did that vodka make you leave with me?
Ain't it funny how you wake up runnin'
When it felt so right last night?
Did you make up your mind about about me from the start?
Did you come here tonight to find something deeper?
Or did you just follow me home 'cause you're scared of the dark?
Did you, did you really think you'd found somebody?
Or did that vodka make you leave with me?
Ain't it funny how you wake up runnin'
When it felt so right last night
You can give her the world and then eight hours later
You can't even put a face to her name
If I don't even know her, how can I hate her?
Well you just stick to the rules and there's no one to blame
Did you, did you really think you'd found somebody?
Or did that vodka make you leave with me
Ain't it funny how you wake up runnin'
When it felt so right last night?
I promised you a part of my unwritten script and I told you
Stuff like I've been waiting for you all my life
You bragged about your hits on My space
And how your future looks so bright
Last night, oh yeah, you and I
Did you really think you'd found somebody?
Or did that vodka make you leave with me?
Ain't it funny how you wake up runnin'
When it felt so right last night?
(Last night)
Did you really think you'd found somebody?
(Last night)
Or did that vodka make you leave with me?
Ain't it funny how you wake up runnin'
When it felt so right last night?
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its obviously about a one night stand and how when your drunk everything feels right, when you dont even know the person.. then you wake up and someone always leaves. 'when it felt so right last night.'
oh and the things you say when your drunk. lol love this song!