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"
Well I ain't got much time so I'll get to the point
Do you wanna share a ride and get the fuck out of this joint?
I've got an impulse so impulsive that it burns
I wanna break your heart until it makes your stomach churn
I got to know if you're the one that got away
Even though it was never meant to be
Say, you'll stay the night
Because we're running out of time
So stay the night
I don't wanna say goodbye
Say, you'll stay the night
Because we're running out of time
So stay the night
I don't wanna say goodbye
I'm just sick and tired of feeling so alone
I don't understand the point if you have to go home
So won't you stay and count the circles 'round my eyes?
And we can watch the stars until the sun begins to rise
I got to know if you're the one one that got away
Even though it was never meant to be
Say, you'll stay the night
Because we're running out of time
So stay the night
I don't wanna say goodbye
Say, you'll stay the night
Because we're running out of time
So stay the night
I don't wanna say goodbye
I got to know if you're the one one that got away
Even though it was never meant to be
Say, you'll stay the night
Because we're running out of time
So stay the night
I don't wanna say goodbye
Say, you'll stay the night
Because we're running out of time
So stay the night
I don't wanna say goodbye
Do you wanna share a ride and get the fuck out of this joint?
I've got an impulse so impulsive that it burns
I wanna break your heart until it makes your stomach churn
I got to know if you're the one that got away
Even though it was never meant to be
Say, you'll stay the night
Because we're running out of time
So stay the night
I don't wanna say goodbye
Say, you'll stay the night
Because we're running out of time
So stay the night
I don't wanna say goodbye
I'm just sick and tired of feeling so alone
I don't understand the point if you have to go home
So won't you stay and count the circles 'round my eyes?
And we can watch the stars until the sun begins to rise
I got to know if you're the one one that got away
Even though it was never meant to be
Say, you'll stay the night
Because we're running out of time
So stay the night
I don't wanna say goodbye
Say, you'll stay the night
Because we're running out of time
So stay the night
I don't wanna say goodbye
I got to know if you're the one one that got away
Even though it was never meant to be
Say, you'll stay the night
Because we're running out of time
So stay the night
I don't wanna say goodbye
Say, you'll stay the night
Because we're running out of time
So stay the night
I don't wanna say goodbye
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I think that "I got an impulse so impulsive that it burns" should be "I got an impulse so repulsive that it burns". Think that's the only correction.