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"
As I look back into the past I can recall
There was a point in time when I thought I had it all
And if my memory, serves me right
When I held you that first night, you told me
Nothing ever felt so right
Please don't let me fall
To the place I was before
To the place I was before
Don't make me wait anymore
And so we fell in love deeper by the day
When you pushed I pulled
To keep you close to me
But somewhere along that line
It became a tug of war
You started sailing away on a ship
While I sat here on the shore
But I would like to think
That you took something from me
And made yourself even more than before
You met me
Cuz I know that I have
Learned so much from you
You opened up my mind
And my heart grew
Bigger than it ever was
Bigger than before
I don't know how I could
Love someone more
Than you
It's so bittersweet, every time we meet
How I wish that we could be
It's so bittersweet, every time we speak
Part of you I'll never see
Well I have had it up to here
So I will make this brief
My heart was stolen and
You are the thief
There was a point in time when I thought I had it all
And if my memory, serves me right
When I held you that first night, you told me
Nothing ever felt so right
Please don't let me fall
To the place I was before
To the place I was before
Don't make me wait anymore
And so we fell in love deeper by the day
When you pushed I pulled
To keep you close to me
But somewhere along that line
It became a tug of war
You started sailing away on a ship
While I sat here on the shore
But I would like to think
That you took something from me
And made yourself even more than before
You met me
Cuz I know that I have
Learned so much from you
You opened up my mind
And my heart grew
Bigger than it ever was
Bigger than before
I don't know how I could
Love someone more
Than you
It's so bittersweet, every time we meet
How I wish that we could be
It's so bittersweet, every time we speak
Part of you I'll never see
Well I have had it up to here
So I will make this brief
My heart was stolen and
You are the thief
Lyrics submitted by whatchawant17
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