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 came out here to speak today
Sometimes it feels just like yesterday
I recall the lipstick on your lips
I remember the last time that we kissed
No it's not too easy bein' alone
I can't find a place to call my own
I've been so confused since you've been gone
What'd I do to deserve this, where did I go wrong?
So tell me how's the weather in heaven,
'Cause out here it's been rainin' all week,
Tell me what to do 'cause I feel like half the man I could be
If I'm breakin' through, I'm breakin' free
I just need the strength to carry me
But without you here it's makin' me believe
If I'm losin' you I'm losin' me
I've been roamin' around these empty streets
All these visions of you and me that I see
I can hear your voice inside my head
While I'm layin' alone in this empty bed
I can hear the rain comin' from the porch
Everyday I lose myself just a little more
You can name a price I'll find a way to pay
If we could turn back the clock and just take back that day
So tell me how's the weather in heaven,
'Cause out here it's been rainin' all week,
Tell me what to do 'cause I feel like half the man I could be
If I'm breakin' through, I'm breakin' free
I just need the strength to carry me
But without you here it's makin' me believe
If I'm losin' you I'm losin' me
And I'm runnin' down that old dirt road
The only one we've ever known
There's a piece of you inside of me
That makes me who I want to be
So tell me how's the weather in heaven,
'Cause out here it's been rainin' all week,
Tell me what to do 'cause I feel like half the man I could be
If I'm breakin' through, I'm breakin' free
I just need the strength to carry me
But without you here it's makin' me believe
If I'm losin' you I'm losin' me
Sometimes it feels just like yesterday
I recall the lipstick on your lips
I remember the last time that we kissed
No it's not too easy bein' alone
I can't find a place to call my own
I've been so confused since you've been gone
What'd I do to deserve this, where did I go wrong?
So tell me how's the weather in heaven,
'Cause out here it's been rainin' all week,
Tell me what to do 'cause I feel like half the man I could be
If I'm breakin' through, I'm breakin' free
I just need the strength to carry me
But without you here it's makin' me believe
If I'm losin' you I'm losin' me
I've been roamin' around these empty streets
All these visions of you and me that I see
I can hear your voice inside my head
While I'm layin' alone in this empty bed
I can hear the rain comin' from the porch
Everyday I lose myself just a little more
You can name a price I'll find a way to pay
If we could turn back the clock and just take back that day
So tell me how's the weather in heaven,
'Cause out here it's been rainin' all week,
Tell me what to do 'cause I feel like half the man I could be
If I'm breakin' through, I'm breakin' free
I just need the strength to carry me
But without you here it's makin' me believe
If I'm losin' you I'm losin' me
And I'm runnin' down that old dirt road
The only one we've ever known
There's a piece of you inside of me
That makes me who I want to be
So tell me how's the weather in heaven,
'Cause out here it's been rainin' all week,
Tell me what to do 'cause I feel like half the man I could be
If I'm breakin' through, I'm breakin' free
I just need the strength to carry me
But without you here it's makin' me believe
If I'm losin' you I'm losin' me
Lyrics submitted by kenzie94
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