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"
Pressed against the ceiling
Swaying side to side
Move under or around me
You can't fit into my life
Shoulders bump the buildngs
Knock the passers-by
Move over or around me
'Cause there ain't no room inside
That little hand means stop
That little man means walk
Cross when you want
You either go to jail or gonna sleep it off
Bar to bar police call the ER
One black the black
Go to jail, sleep it off
The streets are only empty when I need someone
There's nothing to see here move along
The streets are only empty when I need someone
Just lie here waiting for the ambulance to come
Stumble in the alley
Counting all the stars
The blue lights shining and they twinkle off the walls
Stumble down the hallway
In a crooked crawl
The moonlight shining how they twinkle off the walls
That little hand means stop
That little man means walk
Cross when you want
You either go to jail or gonna sleep it off you go
Bar to bar police call the ER
One black the black
Go to jail sleep it off
These streets are only empty when I need someone
There's nothing to see here girl move along
These streets is only empty when I need someone
Just lie here waiting for the ambulance to come
No I don't want to go nahnahnah don't don't take me to the hospital I said
No I don't want to go nahnahnah don't don't take me to the hospital nahnahnah
No no no I don't want to go I said don't don't take me to the hospital
No I don't want to go nahnahnah don't don't take me to the hospital
Those streets are only empty when I need someone
There's nothing to see here just move along
Those streets are only empty when I need someone
Just lie here waiting for the ambulance to come
Swaying side to side
Move under or around me
You can't fit into my life
Shoulders bump the buildngs
Knock the passers-by
Move over or around me
'Cause there ain't no room inside
That little hand means stop
That little man means walk
Cross when you want
You either go to jail or gonna sleep it off
Bar to bar police call the ER
One black the black
Go to jail, sleep it off
The streets are only empty when I need someone
There's nothing to see here move along
The streets are only empty when I need someone
Just lie here waiting for the ambulance to come
Stumble in the alley
Counting all the stars
The blue lights shining and they twinkle off the walls
Stumble down the hallway
In a crooked crawl
The moonlight shining how they twinkle off the walls
That little hand means stop
That little man means walk
Cross when you want
You either go to jail or gonna sleep it off you go
Bar to bar police call the ER
One black the black
Go to jail sleep it off
These streets are only empty when I need someone
There's nothing to see here girl move along
These streets is only empty when I need someone
Just lie here waiting for the ambulance to come
No I don't want to go nahnahnah don't don't take me to the hospital I said
No I don't want to go nahnahnah don't don't take me to the hospital nahnahnah
No no no I don't want to go I said don't don't take me to the hospital
No I don't want to go nahnahnah don't don't take me to the hospital
Those streets are only empty when I need someone
There's nothing to see here just move along
Those streets are only empty when I need someone
Just lie here waiting for the ambulance to come
Lyrics submitted by yvesp
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haha, its:
that little hand means stop that little man means walk cross when you want you're gonna go to jail and sleep it off bar to bar, police car to ER
other than that you pretty much got it, stars is right.. and SHOULDERS bump the buildings
then the song should make a lot more sense :)