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"
Just keep the words locked inside of your mouth
The ones you don't want your lover to know
It's better if you just let him go
As we passed on in the night
You swear you won't go down without a fight
Hearts beat slowly
She's still lonely
A feeling that she wants him to know
Hearts beat slowly
Why is she lonely?
You left him for dead long ago (long ago)
Feelings inside me stop me from trying
You know you were wrong from the start
I'm the composer and I'm one line closer
To the chorus that could ruin your life
(ruin your life)
First things first who are you trying to be
You've got looks, you've got charm and lack
But you're ready
You'd get down on your knees
For the first boy you'd see
Stop saying sorry and just forget about me
What will you do when she cries
A horrible gleam you can see in her eyes
(Don't let it go now)
This is what happened to me
A lover of mine that she'll never be
(it's your road now)
It's never easy to say
I've wasted my life away
First things first who are you trying to be
You've got looks, you've got charm and lack
But you're ready
You'd get down on your knees
For the first boy you'd see
Stop saying sorry
Stop saying sorry
You'd get down on your knees
For the first boy you'd see
Stop saying sorry (and just forget about me)
First things first who are you trying to be
You've got looks, you've got charm and lack
But you're ready
You'd get down on your knees
For the first boy you'd see
Stop saying sorry (let it go)
Know you're sorry (walk away)
Saying sorry and just forget about me
The ones you don't want your lover to know
It's better if you just let him go
As we passed on in the night
You swear you won't go down without a fight
Hearts beat slowly
She's still lonely
A feeling that she wants him to know
Hearts beat slowly
Why is she lonely?
You left him for dead long ago (long ago)
Feelings inside me stop me from trying
You know you were wrong from the start
I'm the composer and I'm one line closer
To the chorus that could ruin your life
(ruin your life)
First things first who are you trying to be
You've got looks, you've got charm and lack
But you're ready
You'd get down on your knees
For the first boy you'd see
Stop saying sorry and just forget about me
What will you do when she cries
A horrible gleam you can see in her eyes
(Don't let it go now)
This is what happened to me
A lover of mine that she'll never be
(it's your road now)
It's never easy to say
I've wasted my life away
First things first who are you trying to be
You've got looks, you've got charm and lack
But you're ready
You'd get down on your knees
For the first boy you'd see
Stop saying sorry
Stop saying sorry
You'd get down on your knees
For the first boy you'd see
Stop saying sorry (and just forget about me)
First things first who are you trying to be
You've got looks, you've got charm and lack
But you're ready
You'd get down on your knees
For the first boy you'd see
Stop saying sorry (let it go)
Know you're sorry (walk away)
Saying sorry and just forget about me
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