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"
Hitched a ride with a cocaine man, slept on the floor of the back of his Sedan,
and we sang some tunes in every key so low, classic rock n’ roll for one and a
half souls, yeah. I hopped off for a coast bound train, played my cash for a
roof in the rain. Fell in love with being alone, and I made love to a few empty
souls. They all returned the favors. You can’t fall in love with
inconsistencies. Yeah, you can’t fall in love with me. I was going by a
different name, a Western call fit for a different place. Found myself between
the bay and the coast, a strip of land made of gamblers and lust. So I rode it
out on a parasail, I kissed Australia and did not tell. There are some things
that you may never know about me, there are some things that I just won’t show
you, there are some places we will never go. You can’t fall in love with
inconsistencies. Yeah, you can’t fall in love with me. So I left the key by
the door, so you can hang it around someone else’s neck, someone who’ll use it
more. And I left the candle burning, I left it lit, so you can blow it out when
you find someone else, someone who’s worth it. Hitched a ride with a cocaine
man.
and we sang some tunes in every key so low, classic rock n’ roll for one and a
half souls, yeah. I hopped off for a coast bound train, played my cash for a
roof in the rain. Fell in love with being alone, and I made love to a few empty
souls. They all returned the favors. You can’t fall in love with
inconsistencies. Yeah, you can’t fall in love with me. I was going by a
different name, a Western call fit for a different place. Found myself between
the bay and the coast, a strip of land made of gamblers and lust. So I rode it
out on a parasail, I kissed Australia and did not tell. There are some things
that you may never know about me, there are some things that I just won’t show
you, there are some places we will never go. You can’t fall in love with
inconsistencies. Yeah, you can’t fall in love with me. So I left the key by
the door, so you can hang it around someone else’s neck, someone who’ll use it
more. And I left the candle burning, I left it lit, so you can blow it out when
you find someone else, someone who’s worth it. Hitched a ride with a cocaine
man.
Lyrics submitted by MeghanErin
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