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 warned her and she fears it
Her attention's been shifted
You summed up the feeling
With a simple dismissing
What you going to do? Deceiving
It ain't you, believe it
But breaches, they happen
And hearts break over nothing
Now inside she's lost it
Her torch light, you snuffed it
She's burned out from wanting
You're pulling at heartstrings
To let go is heartache
This must be a mistake
But her natural reaction
Is to come apart when it's all done
She sewed shut the curtain
She closed out the light coming in
And all her friends she don't want near
She don't want advice, advice to hear
'Cause inside she's working
She's mending what's broken
'Cause her love ain't easy
It changes with seasons
Now inside she's lost it
Her torch light, you snuffed it
She's burned out from wanting
You're pulling at heartstrings
To let go is heartache
This must be a mistake
But her natural reaction
Is to come apart when it's all done (x2)
And her love changes with every season
Her attention's been shifted
You summed up the feeling
With a simple dismissing
What you going to do? Deceiving
It ain't you, believe it
But breaches, they happen
And hearts break over nothing
Now inside she's lost it
Her torch light, you snuffed it
She's burned out from wanting
You're pulling at heartstrings
To let go is heartache
This must be a mistake
But her natural reaction
Is to come apart when it's all done
She sewed shut the curtain
She closed out the light coming in
And all her friends she don't want near
She don't want advice, advice to hear
'Cause inside she's working
She's mending what's broken
'Cause her love ain't easy
It changes with seasons
Now inside she's lost it
Her torch light, you snuffed it
She's burned out from wanting
You're pulling at heartstrings
To let go is heartache
This must be a mistake
But her natural reaction
Is to come apart when it's all done (x2)
And her love changes with every season
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You want love but you fear it Your attention's been shifted You summed up the feeling With a simple dismissing
What you gonna do? Deceiving, It ain't you, believe it, 'Cause our love ain't easy It changes with seasons
Whoa, yeah Where we going I don't know So baby won't you let it go? (Baby won't you let it go?)
You sewed shut the curtains You closed out the light coming in, And all your friends you don't want near You don't want advice, advice to hear
'Cause inside you're working You're mending what's broken, 'Cause our love ain't easy It changes with seasons
Ohhhh yeah, where we going I don't know So baby won't you let it go? Ohhhh yeah, where we going I don't know Ohhhh so baby won't you let it go?
Don't you worry Won't you let it go, Baby don't worry Just let it go, let it go
Don't you worry Won't you let it go, Baby don't worry Just let it go let it go
Don't you worry Won't you let it go, Baby don't worry Just let it go, let it go
Don't you worry Won't you let it go Baby don't worry Just let it go, let it go
Don't you worry Won't you let it go Baby don't worry Where we going I don't know
Don't you worry Won't you let it go Baby don't worry So baby won't you let it go?
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Don't you worry Won't you let it go Baby don't worry So baby won't you let it go?