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"
It's alright to love me, it's alright I swear
It's alright to love me, no need to beware
But it's alright to hate me, it's alright I swear
It's alright to hate me, because I ain't goin anywhere
No more near misses
No more bloodless kisses
We're petrified
And I said "I know
It's hard for you to let this anger go
To keep your rage in check and your heart in tow
It's hard for you to roll around
And make your angels in the ground
With all these tracks I've left out in the snow
It's hard for me to help you let us go
Because somehow you've become all that I know
I want to watch you roll around
And make those angles in the ground
Yeah I'm your weatherman calling for snow"
And it's alright to hate me, it's alright I swear
We're put through the paces
Of a million fruitless chases
But it's alright to love me, it's alright to care
It's alright, you've changed me, and I ain't goin anywhere
No more near misses
No more angry missives
We're petrified
And I said "I know
It's hard for you to let this anger go
You keep your love in check and your heart on hold
It's hard for you to roll around
And make those angels in the ground
With all these tracks I've left out in the snow
It's hard for me to help you let us go
Because somehow you've become all that I know
I want to watch you roll around
And make those angels in the ground
Yeah I'm your weatherman calling for snow"
It's alright to love me, no need to beware
But it's alright to hate me, it's alright I swear
It's alright to hate me, because I ain't goin anywhere
No more near misses
No more bloodless kisses
We're petrified
And I said "I know
It's hard for you to let this anger go
To keep your rage in check and your heart in tow
It's hard for you to roll around
And make your angels in the ground
With all these tracks I've left out in the snow
It's hard for me to help you let us go
Because somehow you've become all that I know
I want to watch you roll around
And make those angles in the ground
Yeah I'm your weatherman calling for snow"
And it's alright to hate me, it's alright I swear
We're put through the paces
Of a million fruitless chases
But it's alright to love me, it's alright to care
It's alright, you've changed me, and I ain't goin anywhere
No more near misses
No more angry missives
We're petrified
And I said "I know
It's hard for you to let this anger go
You keep your love in check and your heart on hold
It's hard for you to roll around
And make those angels in the ground
With all these tracks I've left out in the snow
It's hard for me to help you let us go
Because somehow you've become all that I know
I want to watch you roll around
And make those angels in the ground
Yeah I'm your weatherman calling for snow"
Lyrics submitted by Stoney
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