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"
Let's keep this
Ever so quiet oh so quiet oh I like it alone
I'll wait for you forever
So
Loose fingers
Barely 18 and we're baring we're barely alone
Watch me fall
Watch me breaking your heart
'cos I am breaking your heart again now
This is the part at the end of act 1,
Where I turn to you and I say number one,
We're just getting started, we're just warming up
So I'll kiss you again and again and again
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
I could be,
Just like him, throw me a rope for my throat
Watch me fall
Watch me breaking your heart,
Breaking your heart again now
This is the part at the end of act one,
Where I turn to you and I say number one,
I'll wait for you forever so
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
I can count on you win or lose it's gonna drown us from inside
Save the escape, save the escape
And I'll kiss you again and again and again and again and again
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
Ever so quiet oh so quiet oh I like it alone
I'll wait for you forever
So
Loose fingers
Barely 18 and we're baring we're barely alone
Watch me fall
Watch me breaking your heart
'cos I am breaking your heart again now
This is the part at the end of act 1,
Where I turn to you and I say number one,
We're just getting started, we're just warming up
So I'll kiss you again and again and again
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
I could be,
Just like him, throw me a rope for my throat
Watch me fall
Watch me breaking your heart,
Breaking your heart again now
This is the part at the end of act one,
Where I turn to you and I say number one,
I'll wait for you forever so
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
I can count on you win or lose it's gonna drown us from inside
Save the escape, save the escape
And I'll kiss you again and again and again and again and again
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
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i really dont know because in other parts of the song, he sings about kissing her and she can count on him
This kinda has a sex vibe to it...
"We're just getting started We're just warming up So I'll kiss you again and again and again" & "I fall in love but no never in grace So young, so wrong"
But it also sounds like she's in a shite relationship and he's saying he'll be like him but better She's saying she can count on him
"I'll wait for you forever" & "I fall in love but no never in grace" & "I could be just like him, I'm dying" & "And she said I can count on you win or lose"
I also think she's having a hard time choosing cause "He's breaking her heart" and "It's gonna drown us from inside" Well thats what I gather from it, Im usually I tiny bit off mark