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"
In a Heartbeat
In the smallest movement of your hand
In a silence
In the wonderful cover of night
Under blankets and sheets where I sat at your feet in that intoxicating place
Where desired unspoken and speak
with the dull hear the blue off the muted TV
lines we've drawn and let down
as we adjust our boundaries
In this moment
With a force-field of brazen uncertainty
In a friend’s house
In the living room by shaky candlelight
Waiting on a friend to leave
Now your legs splay across my lap
My hands rest on your knees
Pendulum pulse in my ears like a drunken timpany
On a fence stumbling beside you to reunite this task and treaty
with courage and clumsiness with bravery and stupidity
Woah! You better watch your step!
You’re breaking a heart that you haven't won yet
Woah! You better watch your step!
As your moving past moments that I cannot forget
So bade your actions and holding your debts
Under time that we sold between loss and regret!
There’s an album in my head of the songs that we sang
I can’t quite get the verse and the chorus seems tame
Every other day or so I google image search your name
But there’s only one picture and it’s always the same
I haven't memorized the lyrics
I’ve downloaded the sound .mp3
Printed out the bass tabs
Faked my way around the key
I’m working on a version to jog your memory
Although, maybe a jog seems ambitious,
Maybe we should crawl,
Woah! You better watch your step!
You’re breaking a heart that you haven't won yet
Woah! You better watch your step!
As your moving past moments that I cannot forget,
Woah! You better watch your step!
You better watch your step!
In the smallest movement of your hand
In a silence
In the wonderful cover of night
Under blankets and sheets where I sat at your feet in that intoxicating place
Where desired unspoken and speak
with the dull hear the blue off the muted TV
lines we've drawn and let down
as we adjust our boundaries
In this moment
With a force-field of brazen uncertainty
In a friend’s house
In the living room by shaky candlelight
Waiting on a friend to leave
Now your legs splay across my lap
My hands rest on your knees
Pendulum pulse in my ears like a drunken timpany
On a fence stumbling beside you to reunite this task and treaty
with courage and clumsiness with bravery and stupidity
Woah! You better watch your step!
You’re breaking a heart that you haven't won yet
Woah! You better watch your step!
As your moving past moments that I cannot forget
So bade your actions and holding your debts
Under time that we sold between loss and regret!
There’s an album in my head of the songs that we sang
I can’t quite get the verse and the chorus seems tame
Every other day or so I google image search your name
But there’s only one picture and it’s always the same
I haven't memorized the lyrics
I’ve downloaded the sound .mp3
Printed out the bass tabs
Faked my way around the key
I’m working on a version to jog your memory
Although, maybe a jog seems ambitious,
Maybe we should crawl,
Woah! You better watch your step!
You’re breaking a heart that you haven't won yet
Woah! You better watch your step!
As your moving past moments that I cannot forget,
Woah! You better watch your step!
You better watch your step!
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