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 tuck my kids in to bed and kiss my wife on the head
I got a serious smile cuz tonight I clean the streets
I'm not talking about Dial
Spend the week wearing ties, walk the dog late at night
I take my daily run and when the weekend arrives
I'm kicking asses for fun
I put food on the table
Some would say that I'm unstable, now
Secret identity, nobody knows but me
Patrolling the city streets, my ear to the ground
Secret identity, no HR harassing me
I be what I want to be when the weekend comes 'round
When the sun hits the sky it seems I've just closed my eyes
And I can hear the sound, morning cartoons, Saturday's come around
Smell of coffee and eggs, lists of chores to be made
It's just my weekend style, nights for bustin' heads
Days for Target and while I'm fine with washing dishes
Yeah I still have dreams and wishes, now
Secret identity, nobody knows but me
Patrolling the city streets, my ear to the ground
Secret identity, no HR harassing me
I be what I want to be when the weekend comes 'round
Rain or shine, I'm on time
I love the glow of the city lights
Tickin' clock, and what's at stake
No pension plan or 15 minute break
I know the day will come when I
No longer can swing across the sky
But I'm hanging on until the years decide
That I should end the fight and live a simple life
But for now I've got a
Secret identity, nobody knows but me
Patrolling the city streets, my ear to the ground
Secret identity, no HR harassing me
I be what I want to be when the weekend comes 'round
I got a serious smile cuz tonight I clean the streets
I'm not talking about Dial
Spend the week wearing ties, walk the dog late at night
I take my daily run and when the weekend arrives
I'm kicking asses for fun
I put food on the table
Some would say that I'm unstable, now
Secret identity, nobody knows but me
Patrolling the city streets, my ear to the ground
Secret identity, no HR harassing me
I be what I want to be when the weekend comes 'round
When the sun hits the sky it seems I've just closed my eyes
And I can hear the sound, morning cartoons, Saturday's come around
Smell of coffee and eggs, lists of chores to be made
It's just my weekend style, nights for bustin' heads
Days for Target and while I'm fine with washing dishes
Yeah I still have dreams and wishes, now
Secret identity, nobody knows but me
Patrolling the city streets, my ear to the ground
Secret identity, no HR harassing me
I be what I want to be when the weekend comes 'round
Rain or shine, I'm on time
I love the glow of the city lights
Tickin' clock, and what's at stake
No pension plan or 15 minute break
I know the day will come when I
No longer can swing across the sky
But I'm hanging on until the years decide
That I should end the fight and live a simple life
But for now I've got a
Secret identity, nobody knows but me
Patrolling the city streets, my ear to the ground
Secret identity, no HR harassing me
I be what I want to be when the weekend comes 'round
Lyrics submitted by echopark23
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