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"
far above the city streets
sits the queen of apathy
watching the rain fall
staring out the window
i’m right here but you’re still alone
drowning in it all
baby talk to me
baby can’t you see
that everything we fail to recognize
takes its toll and
everything that’s eating us alive
kills us slowly
you can say there’s nothing wrong
close your eyes until it’s gone
but i won’t let us die without a fight
i’m saving us tonight
so tell me what your running from
don’t be afraid to come undone
all you’re scared to say
isn’t worth the work it takes
to keep it in and live this way
with all the heartache
baby talk to me
don’t just let it be
cause everything we fail to recognize
takes its toll and
everything that’s eating us alive
kills us slowly
you can say there’s nothing wrong
close your eyes until it’s gone
but i won’t let us die without a fight
i’m saving us tonight
you’d forgive everyone else
of what you can’t forgive yourself
we’re all a bunch of crooked souls
gripping what we won’t let go of
we all get to this point in love
most get here and just give up
but i won’t let us die
without a fight
i’m saving us tonight
sits the queen of apathy
watching the rain fall
staring out the window
i’m right here but you’re still alone
drowning in it all
baby talk to me
baby can’t you see
that everything we fail to recognize
takes its toll and
everything that’s eating us alive
kills us slowly
you can say there’s nothing wrong
close your eyes until it’s gone
but i won’t let us die without a fight
i’m saving us tonight
so tell me what your running from
don’t be afraid to come undone
all you’re scared to say
isn’t worth the work it takes
to keep it in and live this way
with all the heartache
baby talk to me
don’t just let it be
cause everything we fail to recognize
takes its toll and
everything that’s eating us alive
kills us slowly
you can say there’s nothing wrong
close your eyes until it’s gone
but i won’t let us die without a fight
i’m saving us tonight
you’d forgive everyone else
of what you can’t forgive yourself
we’re all a bunch of crooked souls
gripping what we won’t let go of
we all get to this point in love
most get here and just give up
but i won’t let us die
without a fight
i’m saving us tonight
Lyrics submitted by lharv035
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