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"
Someone standing alone on a hill
I think you're sinking, can't swim or sit still
Still he's waiting there alone
He's drowning on his own
The fool, who fell in love
Left his heart right in the sink
She tore it all to pieces
When he left it there
The fool, who fell in love
Let his heart wash down the drain
She threw away the pieces
When he left it there
Talkin' to myself
Fallin' from the shelf
Still I wonder why I ever let myself
Take my own advice
Still I wonder why I ever let myself
Take my own advice
Still he's waiting, a man on a hill
I think he's drifting, to float on the wind
Must be a fool to think he could
Bring him back to her
A fool, who fell in love
Left his heart right in the sink
She tore it all to pieces
When he left it there
A fool, who fell in love
Let his heart wash down the drain
She threw away the pieces
When he left it there
Talkin' to myself
Fallin' from the shelf
Still I wonder why I ever let myself
Take my own advice
Still I wonder why I ever let myself
Take my own advice
I think you're sinking, can't swim or sit still
Still he's waiting there alone
He's drowning on his own
The fool, who fell in love
Left his heart right in the sink
She tore it all to pieces
When he left it there
The fool, who fell in love
Let his heart wash down the drain
She threw away the pieces
When he left it there
Talkin' to myself
Fallin' from the shelf
Still I wonder why I ever let myself
Take my own advice
Still I wonder why I ever let myself
Take my own advice
Still he's waiting, a man on a hill
I think he's drifting, to float on the wind
Must be a fool to think he could
Bring him back to her
A fool, who fell in love
Left his heart right in the sink
She tore it all to pieces
When he left it there
A fool, who fell in love
Let his heart wash down the drain
She threw away the pieces
When he left it there
Talkin' to myself
Fallin' from the shelf
Still I wonder why I ever let myself
Take my own advice
Still I wonder why I ever let myself
Take my own advice
Lyrics submitted by laynestaleyiscool
About a Fool Lyrics as written by Robert Deleo Dean Deleo
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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