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"
Where do you go when you listen
To nobody else but yourself
Where do you go?
You're so far from the willing
You're in such a rush not to tell
So where do you go?
Oh, when getting in where you fit in
Doesn't get you one single thing
Where will you go?
When the secrets that you've been keeping
Get a hold of nothing at all
I'd like to know
Can I wish you away
Until you find your place in this world
It's so hard to get a feel
And all you do is wait
For that one little taste
You're so caught up inside to know what's real
But until you've had all you can take
I'll wish you away
So where do you go when forgetting
What you had in store for yourself drags me along
Because you keep running in circles
You're blinded by everything
Just ask me if I know where to go
(Where to go)
Can I wish you away
Until you find your place in this world
It's so hard to get a feel
And all you do is wait
For that one little taste
You're so caught up inside to know what's real
But until you've had all you can take
Oh, but until you've had all you can take
Can I wish you away?
(Would you really go there alone?)
Can I wish you away?
(Would you really go there alone?)
You said you'd be gone just another minute
You're too far off to still be in it
Don't act like your sleeping
When I can see you're wide awake
Can I wish you away
Until you find your place in this world
It's so hard to get a feel
And all you do is wait
For that one little taste
You're so caught up inside to know what's real
(Can I wish you away?) can I wish you away
Until you find your place in this world
It's so hard to get a feel (can I wish you away?)
And all you do is wait
For that one little taste
You're so caught up inside to know what's real
But until you've had all you can take
I'll wish you away
To nobody else but yourself
Where do you go?
You're so far from the willing
You're in such a rush not to tell
So where do you go?
Oh, when getting in where you fit in
Doesn't get you one single thing
Where will you go?
When the secrets that you've been keeping
Get a hold of nothing at all
I'd like to know
Can I wish you away
Until you find your place in this world
It's so hard to get a feel
And all you do is wait
For that one little taste
You're so caught up inside to know what's real
But until you've had all you can take
I'll wish you away
So where do you go when forgetting
What you had in store for yourself drags me along
Because you keep running in circles
You're blinded by everything
Just ask me if I know where to go
(Where to go)
Can I wish you away
Until you find your place in this world
It's so hard to get a feel
And all you do is wait
For that one little taste
You're so caught up inside to know what's real
But until you've had all you can take
Oh, but until you've had all you can take
Can I wish you away?
(Would you really go there alone?)
Can I wish you away?
(Would you really go there alone?)
You said you'd be gone just another minute
You're too far off to still be in it
Don't act like your sleeping
When I can see you're wide awake
Can I wish you away
Until you find your place in this world
It's so hard to get a feel
And all you do is wait
For that one little taste
You're so caught up inside to know what's real
(Can I wish you away?) can I wish you away
Until you find your place in this world
It's so hard to get a feel (can I wish you away?)
And all you do is wait
For that one little taste
You're so caught up inside to know what's real
But until you've had all you can take
I'll wish you away
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