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"
Foolish win sometimes, but it's still my birthday
Foolish win sometimes, but it's still my birthday
I know the day started off so smooth
Wiping off the cold sweat
Woke me up, it must have been a good dream
I guess however its that’s why I feel like I live in a big smile
With my hands in the air
Poppa like this girl, sweet pie
More than pieces
I'm not gonna play, I know for a fact
You truly must relate to fate to upon the roll
Endless places, new faces, that I know forever can directing
Foolish win sometimes
Foolish win sometimes, but it's still my birthday
Lord, lord knows
Foolish win sometimes, but it's still my birthday
And she gives the lovin, you see
It's so true, me on my back up
Whatever she sees, I don't mind and I don't care
I will flow with the deterimined effect
The itchy biters, see not to rest, boo must resent the mess
I don't care what suzie loves
Or even what the crew really does
It's my own, and my real friends to the end
The only things that I could see, lord
Foolish win sometimes
Said I don't know which way
To keep from movin down the line
And whether soundman say
You gotta keep pushin to feel fine
I say don't give up on this world
I wanna reach for higher ground
I say don't give up on this world
I wanna reach for higher ground
The love that you see
And it's awesome for me
But them don't stop now
We remember holdin it
Foolish win sometimes, but it's still my birthday
I know the day started off so smooth
Wiping off the cold sweat
Woke me up, it must have been a good dream
I guess however its that’s why I feel like I live in a big smile
With my hands in the air
Poppa like this girl, sweet pie
More than pieces
I'm not gonna play, I know for a fact
You truly must relate to fate to upon the roll
Endless places, new faces, that I know forever can directing
Foolish win sometimes
Foolish win sometimes, but it's still my birthday
Lord, lord knows
Foolish win sometimes, but it's still my birthday
And she gives the lovin, you see
It's so true, me on my back up
Whatever she sees, I don't mind and I don't care
I will flow with the deterimined effect
The itchy biters, see not to rest, boo must resent the mess
I don't care what suzie loves
Or even what the crew really does
It's my own, and my real friends to the end
The only things that I could see, lord
Foolish win sometimes
Said I don't know which way
To keep from movin down the line
And whether soundman say
You gotta keep pushin to feel fine
I say don't give up on this world
I wanna reach for higher ground
I say don't give up on this world
I wanna reach for higher ground
The love that you see
And it's awesome for me
But them don't stop now
We remember holdin it
Lyrics submitted by DJgif
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