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"
We're living in her dad's car
Been high for days
We look between the seats
We sit and shake
I close my eyes it just won't go away
Yeah we've been high for days
She kicked me off
At the drugstore where I bought
The last pack with the money that I brought
She said she's leaving to someplace I'm not
Someplace I'm not
She headed north on Penn to score
She's gonna stay and do some more
These avenues are the dying proof
They fucking don't make these nights like they used to
You can come home anytime you want
But I'm sick and I'm thinking about you
I'm sick of thinking about you
It's been several weeks now
The family's getting pissed
Her brothers found me
Lyndale and 26th
I said "I'm sorry boys, it ain't me she's with"
No it ain't me she's with
I told them she'd been dying for a shot
Now she's in some courtroom tying some knot
They took me out back
To show me what they thought
To show me what they thought
Beat up in Loon's parking lot
I got a ride home from the cop
These avenues are the dying proof
They fucking don't make these nights like they used to
You can come home anytime you want
But I'm sick and I'm thinking about you
I'm sick of thinking about you
I'm at the Mousetrap in Georgia
I'm in the 404
They put lipstick on our T-shirts
They took our cash at the door
It was the 10:40 train home
It was the 3rd of July
Somebody's drink hit some passenger
They kicked us off in Riverside
I see it everywhere I see it everywhere now
I see it everywhere I see it everywhere now
I see her everywhere I see her everywhere now
I see her everywhere I see her everywhere now
These avenues are the dying proof
They fucking don't make these nights like they used to
You can come home baby if you want
But I'm sick and I'm thinking about you
I'm sick of thinking about you
I'm sick of thinking about you
Been high for days
We look between the seats
We sit and shake
I close my eyes it just won't go away
Yeah we've been high for days
She kicked me off
At the drugstore where I bought
The last pack with the money that I brought
She said she's leaving to someplace I'm not
Someplace I'm not
She headed north on Penn to score
She's gonna stay and do some more
These avenues are the dying proof
They fucking don't make these nights like they used to
You can come home anytime you want
But I'm sick and I'm thinking about you
I'm sick of thinking about you
It's been several weeks now
The family's getting pissed
Her brothers found me
Lyndale and 26th
I said "I'm sorry boys, it ain't me she's with"
No it ain't me she's with
I told them she'd been dying for a shot
Now she's in some courtroom tying some knot
They took me out back
To show me what they thought
To show me what they thought
Beat up in Loon's parking lot
I got a ride home from the cop
These avenues are the dying proof
They fucking don't make these nights like they used to
You can come home anytime you want
But I'm sick and I'm thinking about you
I'm sick of thinking about you
I'm at the Mousetrap in Georgia
I'm in the 404
They put lipstick on our T-shirts
They took our cash at the door
It was the 10:40 train home
It was the 3rd of July
Somebody's drink hit some passenger
They kicked us off in Riverside
I see it everywhere I see it everywhere now
I see it everywhere I see it everywhere now
I see her everywhere I see her everywhere now
I see her everywhere I see her everywhere now
These avenues are the dying proof
They fucking don't make these nights like they used to
You can come home baby if you want
But I'm sick and I'm thinking about you
I'm sick of thinking about you
I'm sick of thinking about you
Lyrics submitted by jamiexo
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