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"
You'll need some kind of saint to pull those
Impure thoughts right out your head
Love the poor complexity
You wouldn't want it any other way
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more, a little bit
Just beating during the sun
Defibrillated hearts with every pulse
Without your own defiling
You'd backwards circle right above our heads
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more, a little bit
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more, a little bit
Don't stop, don't stop
Don't stop, don't stop
Don't stop, don't stop
Don't stop, don't stop
We've had to cross the line
Despite the fact our feet dipped in the fire
We pressured a bull again
Then shake your tambourines into the dust
You need some kind of saint
To pull those impure thoughts right out your head
Like the poor complexity
You wouldn't want it any other way
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
(Don't stop)
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
(Don't stop)
Giving it a little bit more
(Don't stop)
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
(Don't stop)
Giving it a little bit more
(Don't stop)
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
(Don't stop)
Giving it a little bit more
(Don't stop)
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
(Don't stop)
Giving it a little bit more
(Don't stop)
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
(Don't stop)
Giving it a little bit more
(Don't stop)
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
(Don't stop)
Giving it a little bit more
(Don't stop)
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
(Don't stop)
Giving it a little bit more
(Don't stop)
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
...
Impure thoughts right out your head
Love the poor complexity
You wouldn't want it any other way
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more, a little bit
Just beating during the sun
Defibrillated hearts with every pulse
Without your own defiling
You'd backwards circle right above our heads
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more, a little bit
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more, a little bit
Don't stop, don't stop
Don't stop, don't stop
Don't stop, don't stop
Don't stop, don't stop
We've had to cross the line
Despite the fact our feet dipped in the fire
We pressured a bull again
Then shake your tambourines into the dust
You need some kind of saint
To pull those impure thoughts right out your head
Like the poor complexity
You wouldn't want it any other way
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
(Don't stop)
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
(Don't stop)
Giving it a little bit more
(Don't stop)
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
(Don't stop)
Giving it a little bit more
(Don't stop)
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
(Don't stop)
Giving it a little bit more
(Don't stop)
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
(Don't stop)
Giving it a little bit more
(Don't stop)
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
(Don't stop)
Giving it a little bit more
(Don't stop)
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
(Don't stop)
Giving it a little bit more
(Don't stop)
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
(Don't stop)
Giving it a little bit more
(Don't stop)
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
Climbin' on, climb on aboard
Giving it a little bit more
...
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i feel like this song is kind of obvious to the meaning.. i mean..
You'll need some kind of saint to pull those impure thoughts out of your head.. + Climb on, climb on aboard Giving it a little bit more Don't stop + We've had to cross the line..
getting frisky with his girl. i feel like he was unsure if they should take it to the next level, but the ended up doing it anyway.
..could be off. but i feel like its obvious.