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"
I fight the system 'cause I'm offended
Know what it means to be a pawn
Manipulated beyond all reason
You can't decide what's right or wrong
Absorb the pressure. avoid the pain
See the factory. It's just a prison
Life sentence just so you can eat
You're just a number, they'll sacrifice you
Replace you with a new machine
You think they're loyal. You think they care
You think you'll never lose your job
You're just a sucker, if you don't wake up
One day you'll find out that you're gone
What are we doing. Creating a system
Resulting in meaningless lives?
Instead of improving. We're always abusing
Too selfish to ever be wise
Busting our butts in a rush to get nowhere
Just look what we're leaving behind
A trail of destruction, self-centered obstruction
It's time to start using our minds
Fight the system. Lose the pain
Lacking in courage. Afraid of the future
Pretending that everything's fine
How will it feel when you're forty years old
And you're dumped from the factory line
Plan your escape 'cause it's certain to happen
The day when you're through is at hand
Sucker for punishment, here is your warning
Be ready before you get canned
Fight the system. Lose the point
Feel the pressure, this life's insane
Know what it means to be a pawn
Manipulated beyond all reason
You can't decide what's right or wrong
Absorb the pressure. avoid the pain
See the factory. It's just a prison
Life sentence just so you can eat
You're just a number, they'll sacrifice you
Replace you with a new machine
You think they're loyal. You think they care
You think you'll never lose your job
You're just a sucker, if you don't wake up
One day you'll find out that you're gone
What are we doing. Creating a system
Resulting in meaningless lives?
Instead of improving. We're always abusing
Too selfish to ever be wise
Busting our butts in a rush to get nowhere
Just look what we're leaving behind
A trail of destruction, self-centered obstruction
It's time to start using our minds
Fight the system. Lose the pain
Lacking in courage. Afraid of the future
Pretending that everything's fine
How will it feel when you're forty years old
And you're dumped from the factory line
Plan your escape 'cause it's certain to happen
The day when you're through is at hand
Sucker for punishment, here is your warning
Be ready before you get canned
Fight the system. Lose the point
Feel the pressure, this life's insane
Lyrics submitted by VezzyRattlehead
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