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 only one everything
Remember these words
There's only one everything
And if you go out and count up everything
It all adds up to one
There's only one everything
The last time I checked
There's only one everything
It kinda makes sense that there would only be
Just one, not ten, not three
If you get all the stuff together
And you have not left something out
Then could there still be anything left over?
I'm pretty sure that means there could not
We share the same omniverse
Please clean your room
We share the same omniverse
And even though you are over here and not there
There's just one everywhere
You got the cars, the trees, the house
There are some clouds, some birds, a monster
And when it's all too much to count up
You can put it in one pile
What if you drew a giant circle
What if it went around all there is
Then would there still be such a thing as an outside
And does that question even make any sense?
There's only one everything
The last time I checked
There's only one everything
It kinda makes sense that there would only be
Just one, not ten, not three, not twelve
There's only one everything
Remember these words
There's only one everything
And if you go out and count up everything
It all adds up to one
It all adds up, it all adds up
It all adds up to one
Remember these words
There's only one everything
And if you go out and count up everything
It all adds up to one
There's only one everything
The last time I checked
There's only one everything
It kinda makes sense that there would only be
Just one, not ten, not three
If you get all the stuff together
And you have not left something out
Then could there still be anything left over?
I'm pretty sure that means there could not
We share the same omniverse
Please clean your room
We share the same omniverse
And even though you are over here and not there
There's just one everywhere
You got the cars, the trees, the house
There are some clouds, some birds, a monster
And when it's all too much to count up
You can put it in one pile
What if you drew a giant circle
What if it went around all there is
Then would there still be such a thing as an outside
And does that question even make any sense?
There's only one everything
The last time I checked
There's only one everything
It kinda makes sense that there would only be
Just one, not ten, not three, not twelve
There's only one everything
Remember these words
There's only one everything
And if you go out and count up everything
It all adds up to one
It all adds up, it all adds up
It all adds up to one
Lyrics submitted by theInnovator
One Everything Lyrics as written by John Linnell John Flansburgh
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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