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"
There's a hole in the ground and it's 6 foot deep
The earth is black and the walls are steep
And the whistle keeps blowin' on the Sheffield train Breath like thunder, Cry like rain
I wish I had the money to make one last call
They wrote your number by the clock on the wall Well they don't make a sound
But the wheels go round in the night >Hole in the ground
Sledgehammer pounds out the light!
Raise my voice above the noise and
Tear my throat like sheets of paper
If the earth should open up
Is there really any wonder?
Do you really care anymore Johnny?
I don't know if I do dah
I woke up this mornin' to the sound of steel
There's a black van crawling up an empty street
And sweat is dripping in a tunnel so dark
With furrowed brow and blistered feet
There's a wheel off my wagon and a tolling bell
Axle dragging on the road to hell
Been this way for so long now
I don't think I'll ever shake it
I can feel what little power
Gettin' less by every hour
I stood up above this town
And watched the rain come pouring down
The earth is black and the walls are steep
And the whistle keeps blowin' on the Sheffield train Breath like thunder, Cry like rain
I wish I had the money to make one last call
They wrote your number by the clock on the wall Well they don't make a sound
But the wheels go round in the night >Hole in the ground
Sledgehammer pounds out the light!
Raise my voice above the noise and
Tear my throat like sheets of paper
If the earth should open up
Is there really any wonder?
Do you really care anymore Johnny?
I don't know if I do dah
I woke up this mornin' to the sound of steel
There's a black van crawling up an empty street
And sweat is dripping in a tunnel so dark
With furrowed brow and blistered feet
There's a wheel off my wagon and a tolling bell
Axle dragging on the road to hell
Been this way for so long now
I don't think I'll ever shake it
I can feel what little power
Gettin' less by every hour
I stood up above this town
And watched the rain come pouring down
Lyrics submitted by TheIntimindator27
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