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"
No more trouble
In this town
Silent night, for a change
Brand new year
Coming up ahead
You know its been so long
Since I rang one in?
I close my eyes
Think about the path I took
Just when I think these times
Have gotten the best of me
I can see my mother in the kitchen
My father on the floor
Watching television
It's a wonderful life
Cinnamon candles burning
Snowball fights outside
Smile below each nose and above each chin
Stomp my boots before I go back in
I wasted my wishes
On Saturday nights
Boy what I would give
For just one more
I soften my heart
Shocked the world
Do you hear my voice?
Do you know my name?
Light my way
Lift my head
Light my way, I can see my mother in the kitchen
My father on the floor
Watching television
It's a wonderful life
Cinnamon candles burning
Snowball fights outside
Smile below each nose and above each chin
Family all together
Presents piled high
Frost on all the windows
What a wonderful night
Cinnamon candles burning
Snowball fights outside
Smile below each nose and above each chin
So happy they found me
Love was all around me
Stomp my boots before I go back in
In this town
Silent night, for a change
Brand new year
Coming up ahead
You know its been so long
Since I rang one in?
I close my eyes
Think about the path I took
Just when I think these times
Have gotten the best of me
I can see my mother in the kitchen
My father on the floor
Watching television
It's a wonderful life
Cinnamon candles burning
Snowball fights outside
Smile below each nose and above each chin
Stomp my boots before I go back in
I wasted my wishes
On Saturday nights
Boy what I would give
For just one more
I soften my heart
Shocked the world
Do you hear my voice?
Do you know my name?
Light my way
Lift my head
Light my way, I can see my mother in the kitchen
My father on the floor
Watching television
It's a wonderful life
Cinnamon candles burning
Snowball fights outside
Smile below each nose and above each chin
Family all together
Presents piled high
Frost on all the windows
What a wonderful night
Cinnamon candles burning
Snowball fights outside
Smile below each nose and above each chin
So happy they found me
Love was all around me
Stomp my boots before I go back in
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