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"
I'm sick of electronic fingers
And voices through receivers
Give me hands
I'm sick of neurotic picture-makers
And heady confrontation
Give me heart
Oh
I'm through with electronic letters
And too many vices
Give me help
I'm through with love with picture-makers
and New York City
Fuck off
Oh
Run, run, run, run, run that town
We run, run, run, run, run that town
Run, run, run, run, run me down
You run, run, run, run, run me down
Run me down
I'm over cigarettes burned to the filters
And cold that hurts my fingers
Give me gloves
I'm over lonely picture-makers
Who scatter their hearts
Give me guts
Oh
I'm through with lonely conversations
And heartfelt contradictions
Give me grace
I'm through with tragic picture-makers
And optimistic suckers
Fuck off
Oh
Run, run, run, run, run that town
We run, run, run, run, run that town
Run, run, run, run, run me down
You run, run, run, run, run me down
Run, run, run, run, run that town
We run, run, run, run, run that town
Run, run, run, run, run me down
You run, run, run, run, run me down
Run me down
I'm sick of electronic fingers
And voices through receivers
Give me hands
I'm sick of neurotic picture-makers
And heady confrontation
Give me heart
I'm over cigarettes burned to the filters
And cold that hurts my fingers
Give me gloves
I'm over lonely picture-makers
Who scatter their hearts
Give me some fucking guts
Oh
And voices through receivers
Give me hands
I'm sick of neurotic picture-makers
And heady confrontation
Give me heart
Oh
I'm through with electronic letters
And too many vices
Give me help
I'm through with love with picture-makers
and New York City
Fuck off
Oh
Run, run, run, run, run that town
We run, run, run, run, run that town
Run, run, run, run, run me down
You run, run, run, run, run me down
Run me down
I'm over cigarettes burned to the filters
And cold that hurts my fingers
Give me gloves
I'm over lonely picture-makers
Who scatter their hearts
Give me guts
Oh
I'm through with lonely conversations
And heartfelt contradictions
Give me grace
I'm through with tragic picture-makers
And optimistic suckers
Fuck off
Oh
Run, run, run, run, run that town
We run, run, run, run, run that town
Run, run, run, run, run me down
You run, run, run, run, run me down
Run, run, run, run, run that town
We run, run, run, run, run that town
Run, run, run, run, run me down
You run, run, run, run, run me down
Run me down
I'm sick of electronic fingers
And voices through receivers
Give me hands
I'm sick of neurotic picture-makers
And heady confrontation
Give me heart
I'm over cigarettes burned to the filters
And cold that hurts my fingers
Give me gloves
I'm over lonely picture-makers
Who scatter their hearts
Give me some fucking guts
Oh
Lyrics submitted by xArienette
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Oh, wa'oh, wa'oh...forgot to meantion how remarkable is it that when she sings "you run me down" can have two meanings. The careful and slow weathering of a life by carefully and slowly following every possible path they could take. You will run them into the ground by following ever so closely. I like also how she subsitutes her cold with guts instead of gloves in that she will cover her cold with the bravery to competely walk away after the warmth has been denied. However, she remains cold to whatever. It takes guts to turn away and she realizes that, FINALLY!