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"
Are you having trouble finding sleep at night?
Or does your lack of conscience tell you
Everything's all right?
I trust your good intentions
That you're watching over friends
You must think that I'm crazy
If I don't see through that grin
So tell me what your best friend knows
That I don't know
Tell me why you talk me down
Wherever you go
You're a saint, you're a queen
And I'm just another boy without a crown
Tell me why you sell me out everywhere you go
I just wanna know what your best friend knows
So vindictive, you'll say anything you like
The smile you fake, the steps you take
You know you never could get it right
And talk is cheap
So make believe your secrets find the grave
It's too late, you gave up
Your last chance to walk away
So tell me what your best friend knows
That I don't know
Tell me why you talk me down
Wherever you go
You're a saint, you're a queen
And I'm just another boy without a crown
Tell me why you sell me out everywhere you go
I just wanna know what your best friend knows
You stand a little too tall, say a little too much
Gonna bite that know-it-all tongue
You tried a little too hard, now I'm calling that bluff
Big plans are coming undone
That's just typical, you're so cynical
Couldn't have me, I didn't want you
You're selling me out to the girl I can't afford to lose
You stand a little too tall, say a little too much
You're gonna bite that know-it-all tongue
You tried a little too hard, now I'm calling that bluff
Big plans are coming undone
That's just typical, you're so cynical
Couldn't have me, I didn't want you
You set yourself up to lose
So tell me what your best friend knows
That I don't know
Tell me why you talk me down
Wherever you go
You're a saint, you're a queen
And I'm just another boy without a crown
Tell me why you sell me out everywhere you go
I just wanna know what your best friend knows
What your best friend knows
I'm never gonna let this go
What your best friend knows
Or does your lack of conscience tell you
Everything's all right?
I trust your good intentions
That you're watching over friends
You must think that I'm crazy
If I don't see through that grin
So tell me what your best friend knows
That I don't know
Tell me why you talk me down
Wherever you go
You're a saint, you're a queen
And I'm just another boy without a crown
Tell me why you sell me out everywhere you go
I just wanna know what your best friend knows
So vindictive, you'll say anything you like
The smile you fake, the steps you take
You know you never could get it right
And talk is cheap
So make believe your secrets find the grave
It's too late, you gave up
Your last chance to walk away
So tell me what your best friend knows
That I don't know
Tell me why you talk me down
Wherever you go
You're a saint, you're a queen
And I'm just another boy without a crown
Tell me why you sell me out everywhere you go
I just wanna know what your best friend knows
You stand a little too tall, say a little too much
Gonna bite that know-it-all tongue
You tried a little too hard, now I'm calling that bluff
Big plans are coming undone
That's just typical, you're so cynical
Couldn't have me, I didn't want you
You're selling me out to the girl I can't afford to lose
You stand a little too tall, say a little too much
You're gonna bite that know-it-all tongue
You tried a little too hard, now I'm calling that bluff
Big plans are coming undone
That's just typical, you're so cynical
Couldn't have me, I didn't want you
You set yourself up to lose
So tell me what your best friend knows
That I don't know
Tell me why you talk me down
Wherever you go
You're a saint, you're a queen
And I'm just another boy without a crown
Tell me why you sell me out everywhere you go
I just wanna know what your best friend knows
What your best friend knows
I'm never gonna let this go
What your best friend knows
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
Keep the Change, You Filthy Animal Lyrics as written by Jack Bassam Barakat Alexander William Gaskarth
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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