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"
Coming home late at night
I grab my guitar and I play a few chords
But suddenly I hear a noise from behind
and I turn around and I look at a man
with a knife in his hand and a grin on his face
and he tells me that he'll kill me
in the time it takes to drink a glass of milk
I scream and scream
I scream for help
But the neighbourhood is still fast asleep
Running 'round the tables and chairs
I try to catch his eyes to ask him why he's doing this
I talk of agreeable things to make him cool down
I talk of cigarettes and drinks and a trip to the south
I talk of Kennedy and King and Trotski and girls
But I don't seem to find the words to make him drop the knife
I scream and scream
I scream for help
But the neighbourhood is still fast asleep
I've had enough, I'm about to give in
he raises the knife and suddenly he slips
and bangs his head against the floor
There's a pool of blood, I assume that he's dead
I get him into my car and off we go
to the nearest park and minutes later
He's six foot down
He is six foot down
He is six foot down
I said six foot down
He is six foot down
I grab my guitar and I play a few chords
But suddenly I hear a noise from behind
and I turn around and I look at a man
with a knife in his hand and a grin on his face
and he tells me that he'll kill me
in the time it takes to drink a glass of milk
I scream and scream
I scream for help
But the neighbourhood is still fast asleep
Running 'round the tables and chairs
I try to catch his eyes to ask him why he's doing this
I talk of agreeable things to make him cool down
I talk of cigarettes and drinks and a trip to the south
I talk of Kennedy and King and Trotski and girls
But I don't seem to find the words to make him drop the knife
I scream and scream
I scream for help
But the neighbourhood is still fast asleep
I've had enough, I'm about to give in
he raises the knife and suddenly he slips
and bangs his head against the floor
There's a pool of blood, I assume that he's dead
I get him into my car and off we go
to the nearest park and minutes later
He's six foot down
He is six foot down
He is six foot down
I said six foot down
He is six foot down
Lyrics submitted by Joshoewaa
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