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"
Daddy said, Daddy said, go out and make me proud
If only he could see the way you've turned out now
Go ahead baby and say the words you want from me
Believe cause' I'm the one that wrote this song
If I could turn back time and read your mind,
Besides these dice and cards I'm just another game
If you could live forever you'd still
Wanna be a one night stand
You can walk on cause I'm leaving
Goodbye to you and everything
You can walk on cause I'm leaving
Goodbye to you and everything
Look at the mess and mistakes you've made
Heroes, yeah, I will remain
Look at the mess and mistakes you've made
Heroes, yeah, I will remain
I won't be another notch on bedpost sheets
I won't be another notch on bedpost sheets
You tried to test me and you failed
"I'll stay the course, I'll stay the course,
I'll hold my head up high."
Another misread lullaby
"I won't be misread again, I won't be here waiting,
Goodbye to you, goodbye."
You can walk on cause I'm leaving
Goodbye to you and everything
You can walk on cause I'm leaving
Goodbye to you and everything
We wrote the book
You wrote the lies
So take this forever
We wrote the book
You wrote the lies
So take this forever
Forth in writing, Oh my God
Forth in writing, Oh my God
Oh, my, God,
So press on now baby, you never seemed so fake
Just give me something that's real again
If only he could see the way you've turned out now
Go ahead baby and say the words you want from me
Believe cause' I'm the one that wrote this song
If I could turn back time and read your mind,
Besides these dice and cards I'm just another game
If you could live forever you'd still
Wanna be a one night stand
You can walk on cause I'm leaving
Goodbye to you and everything
You can walk on cause I'm leaving
Goodbye to you and everything
Look at the mess and mistakes you've made
Heroes, yeah, I will remain
Look at the mess and mistakes you've made
Heroes, yeah, I will remain
I won't be another notch on bedpost sheets
I won't be another notch on bedpost sheets
You tried to test me and you failed
"I'll stay the course, I'll stay the course,
I'll hold my head up high."
Another misread lullaby
"I won't be misread again, I won't be here waiting,
Goodbye to you, goodbye."
You can walk on cause I'm leaving
Goodbye to you and everything
You can walk on cause I'm leaving
Goodbye to you and everything
We wrote the book
You wrote the lies
So take this forever
We wrote the book
You wrote the lies
So take this forever
Forth in writing, Oh my God
Forth in writing, Oh my God
Oh, my, God,
So press on now baby, you never seemed so fake
Just give me something that's real again
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Shh! Haha. I love this song; It's great.
Shh! Haha. I love this song; It's great.
songs amazing!