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 met a man at church on Saturday
he said I’m here because I’m sick
and after sick I’ll be dead
and once I’m dead I’ll be saved
I played an atheist on judgment day
If we’re all here because we are picked
well I was picked with no faith
so once I’m saved don’t mean shit
I can tell we found the rhythm
and oh…we can obey
but if they don’t pray
then they don’t mean a thing
I got my fathers stitch on mother’s day
it does appear life’s a bitch
but I’m a dick just the same
because we’re the same don’t mean shit
we can’t all forget how to be son of man
afraid that the wait has only
given away this opportunity
lucky for me, the sun it sets
and it sets on and on again
they learn the sea, for they will swim
I will learn the sea tonight. I will learn.
they learn the sea (they're gonna burn tonight),
for they will swim (they're burning now)
I bet they cannot, forget their landmark
I met a man at church on Saturday
He said I’m here because I’m sick
but we all drop just the same
and when we drop we will learn to bounce
I believe in everything you tell me because
I believe in everything you show because
I can see it all
Having trouble getting over insecurities?
I am the wall
if you cannot forget this I will remain
you will not fall
I found that the wait has only
given away this opportunity
lucky for me, the sun it sets
it sets on and on, again
we all can’t be a son of man
he said I’m here because I’m sick
and after sick I’ll be dead
and once I’m dead I’ll be saved
I played an atheist on judgment day
If we’re all here because we are picked
well I was picked with no faith
so once I’m saved don’t mean shit
I can tell we found the rhythm
and oh…we can obey
but if they don’t pray
then they don’t mean a thing
I got my fathers stitch on mother’s day
it does appear life’s a bitch
but I’m a dick just the same
because we’re the same don’t mean shit
we can’t all forget how to be son of man
afraid that the wait has only
given away this opportunity
lucky for me, the sun it sets
and it sets on and on again
they learn the sea, for they will swim
I will learn the sea tonight. I will learn.
they learn the sea (they're gonna burn tonight),
for they will swim (they're burning now)
I bet they cannot, forget their landmark
I met a man at church on Saturday
He said I’m here because I’m sick
but we all drop just the same
and when we drop we will learn to bounce
I believe in everything you tell me because
I believe in everything you show because
I can see it all
Having trouble getting over insecurities?
I am the wall
if you cannot forget this I will remain
you will not fall
I found that the wait has only
given away this opportunity
lucky for me, the sun it sets
it sets on and on, again
we all can’t be a son of man
Lyrics submitted by Thricetones
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