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"
Oh baby get that shit out of your mind
When I get back everything will be fine
We can sit back and relax and unwind
It's now that I need you
Just be cool in this time
When I'm out here it feels like the front line
And without you I am losing my mind
Girl, it's not like you're hearing this for the first time
But it feels like something's different this time
And we both knew we were crossing that line
When your song plays I keep hitting rewind
And the best thing I have is what I left behind
And we both know that I'm yours and you're mine
And it's late night, on the phone and you're crying
Cause the distance keeps on testing my spine
And I don't have the dough to be on the next flight
When I feel you hoping that we don't fight
And I need you to need me to act right
But we hang up without saying goodnight
And I just need to know if it will be alright
Oh, don't you ever say that it's too hard to wait
Just know as long as I'm alive I'll come back to your side
Then there's nights when you're lonely and you need to go out
And it's not you that I'm worried about
But intentions of some "friends" that I doubt
And a whole bunch of noise projects from my mouth
And I can't go on treating you this way
And the feelings - They don't match what I say
When "I'm sorry" doesn't make it okay
And I... I forgot what I wanted to say
But we both know that I'm yours and you're mine
But it's late night, on the phone and you're crying
Cause the distance keeps on testing my spine
And I don't have the dough to be on the next flight
When I feel you hoping that we don't fight
And I need you to need me to act right
But we hang up without saying goodnight
And I just need to know if it will be alright
Oh, don't you ever say that it's too hard to wait
Just know as long as I'm alive I'll come back to your side
To your side…
Oh baby get that shit out of your mind
When I get back everything will be fine
We can sit back and relax and unwind
It's now that I need you
Just be cool in this time
When I'm here it feels like the front line
And without you I am losing my mind
Girl, it's not like you're hearing this for the first time
Baby get that shit out of your mind
Oh, don't you ever say that it's too hard to wait
Just know as long as I'm alive I'll come back to your side.
When I get back everything will be fine
We can sit back and relax and unwind
It's now that I need you
Just be cool in this time
When I'm out here it feels like the front line
And without you I am losing my mind
Girl, it's not like you're hearing this for the first time
But it feels like something's different this time
And we both knew we were crossing that line
When your song plays I keep hitting rewind
And the best thing I have is what I left behind
And we both know that I'm yours and you're mine
And it's late night, on the phone and you're crying
Cause the distance keeps on testing my spine
And I don't have the dough to be on the next flight
When I feel you hoping that we don't fight
And I need you to need me to act right
But we hang up without saying goodnight
And I just need to know if it will be alright
Oh, don't you ever say that it's too hard to wait
Just know as long as I'm alive I'll come back to your side
Then there's nights when you're lonely and you need to go out
And it's not you that I'm worried about
But intentions of some "friends" that I doubt
And a whole bunch of noise projects from my mouth
And I can't go on treating you this way
And the feelings - They don't match what I say
When "I'm sorry" doesn't make it okay
And I... I forgot what I wanted to say
But we both know that I'm yours and you're mine
But it's late night, on the phone and you're crying
Cause the distance keeps on testing my spine
And I don't have the dough to be on the next flight
When I feel you hoping that we don't fight
And I need you to need me to act right
But we hang up without saying goodnight
And I just need to know if it will be alright
Oh, don't you ever say that it's too hard to wait
Just know as long as I'm alive I'll come back to your side
To your side…
Oh baby get that shit out of your mind
When I get back everything will be fine
We can sit back and relax and unwind
It's now that I need you
Just be cool in this time
When I'm here it feels like the front line
And without you I am losing my mind
Girl, it's not like you're hearing this for the first time
Baby get that shit out of your mind
Oh, don't you ever say that it's too hard to wait
Just know as long as I'm alive I'll come back to your side.
Lyrics submitted by echo421
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