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"
If every tree points to a star
If every tree points to a star
I bent the tips all over
I set a snare for clover
I bent the tips all over
Nothing is as special as this
Nothing is as special as this
Nothing is as special as this
It's frustrated love
It's frustrated love
If I'm dreaming you and you're dreaming me
Then why don't we choose a different story
If I'm dreaming you and you're dreaming me
Then why don't we choose
If I'm dreaming you and you're dreaming me
Then why don't we choose a different story
If I'm dreaming you and you're dreaming me
So why, why
Probably forget to rememeber it
You'll probably forget to remember it
(Probably forget)
This fun, it feels like toil
(Remember it)
So ripe it's going to spoil
(Probably forget)
This fun, it feels like toil
(To remember it, probably forget)
Would start to let us finish it
(Remember it, probably forget)
My heart wants just to know that it exists
(Remember it)
Would start to let us finish it
My heart, my heart, my heart, my heart, my heart
If I'm dreaming you and you're dreaming me
Then why don't we choose a different story
If I'm dreaming you and you're dreaming me
Then why don't we choose
If I'm dreaming you, then you're dreaming me
So why don't we choose a different story
(Why - if - this - dream - is - to - die)
If i'm dreaming you, then you're dreaming me
(Why - if - this - dream)
Then why
I do not understand
If time is smooth
If time is rough
I do no understand
If love must go
Away with trust
I may want you, but you don't want me
So why wouldn't it be better to leave
I may want you, but you don't want me
So why wouldn't it be better to leave
(If every tree)
I may want you, but you don't want me
(Points to a star)
So why wouldn't it be better to leave
(If every tree)
I may want you, but you don't want me
(Points to a star)
So why wouldn't it be better to leave
(If every tree)
My heart wants just to know that it exists
(Points to a star, if every tree)
My heart wants just to know
(Points to a star)
If every tree points to a star
I bent the tips all over
I set a snare for clover
I bent the tips all over
Nothing is as special as this
Nothing is as special as this
Nothing is as special as this
It's frustrated love
It's frustrated love
If I'm dreaming you and you're dreaming me
Then why don't we choose a different story
If I'm dreaming you and you're dreaming me
Then why don't we choose
If I'm dreaming you and you're dreaming me
Then why don't we choose a different story
If I'm dreaming you and you're dreaming me
So why, why
Probably forget to rememeber it
You'll probably forget to remember it
(Probably forget)
This fun, it feels like toil
(Remember it)
So ripe it's going to spoil
(Probably forget)
This fun, it feels like toil
(To remember it, probably forget)
Would start to let us finish it
(Remember it, probably forget)
My heart wants just to know that it exists
(Remember it)
Would start to let us finish it
My heart, my heart, my heart, my heart, my heart
If I'm dreaming you and you're dreaming me
Then why don't we choose a different story
If I'm dreaming you and you're dreaming me
Then why don't we choose
If I'm dreaming you, then you're dreaming me
So why don't we choose a different story
(Why - if - this - dream - is - to - die)
If i'm dreaming you, then you're dreaming me
(Why - if - this - dream)
Then why
I do not understand
If time is smooth
If time is rough
I do no understand
If love must go
Away with trust
I may want you, but you don't want me
So why wouldn't it be better to leave
I may want you, but you don't want me
So why wouldn't it be better to leave
(If every tree)
I may want you, but you don't want me
(Points to a star)
So why wouldn't it be better to leave
(If every tree)
I may want you, but you don't want me
(Points to a star)
So why wouldn't it be better to leave
(If every tree)
My heart wants just to know that it exists
(Points to a star, if every tree)
My heart wants just to know
(Points to a star)
Lyrics submitted by The Nerdy Bandit
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