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"
There's an elephant on my shoulder
There's a monkey on my back
And if something were to ever come between them
The floorboards would crack
And send shivers to the ceiling
Echoes through the walls
Up and gone and lost forever
Like a teardrop just before it falls
Now if it's high time to get going
If it's high time to move
All our friends will come and let us know it
Like the moment could not be too soon
We'll make time like its fiction
We'll pretend that what is written must well have been
We'll raise the restrictions
Find a way for all the instruments to blend
We'll take flight and take turns
Tell stories and weave them with a spin
And the ocean will come and spit her wisdom
As she's an outsider and she's looking in
Her wind will blow, through in stereo
And we'll know just why we're here
We'll know why we're here
We'll know, we'll know why
But you were nowhere near
Why, oh why, oh well
Oh, what are you looking for?
Who are you looking for?
And why are you looking?
Cause in an instant it all could come back to make sense
Pour the truth out all around to avoid tomorrow's regret
For a broken heart in half is certain to spill
Like the burn of orange, red and black ash on a white cigarette
And still, there's a lot shit on my table
There's a target on my soul
And if I ever get to break it up between them
My loneliness is sure to show
And with the wind it will blow
Through in stereo
And we'll know just why we were here
We'll know why we're
You and I but you were nowhere near
Why, oh why, oh well
Why, oh why, oh well
Why, oh why, oh well.
There's a monkey on my back
And if something were to ever come between them
The floorboards would crack
And send shivers to the ceiling
Echoes through the walls
Up and gone and lost forever
Like a teardrop just before it falls
Now if it's high time to get going
If it's high time to move
All our friends will come and let us know it
Like the moment could not be too soon
We'll make time like its fiction
We'll pretend that what is written must well have been
We'll raise the restrictions
Find a way for all the instruments to blend
We'll take flight and take turns
Tell stories and weave them with a spin
And the ocean will come and spit her wisdom
As she's an outsider and she's looking in
Her wind will blow, through in stereo
And we'll know just why we're here
We'll know why we're here
We'll know, we'll know why
But you were nowhere near
Why, oh why, oh well
Oh, what are you looking for?
Who are you looking for?
And why are you looking?
Cause in an instant it all could come back to make sense
Pour the truth out all around to avoid tomorrow's regret
For a broken heart in half is certain to spill
Like the burn of orange, red and black ash on a white cigarette
And still, there's a lot shit on my table
There's a target on my soul
And if I ever get to break it up between them
My loneliness is sure to show
And with the wind it will blow
Through in stereo
And we'll know just why we were here
We'll know why we're
You and I but you were nowhere near
Why, oh why, oh well
Why, oh why, oh well
Why, oh why, oh well.
Lyrics submitted by thetraditionist
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