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"
y si me encuentras sangrando llamo los vampiros
ay mi hijos
if I started bleeding today
call up every vampire you know
I just wanted all my children, all my kids to know that..
if we are the faithful living, then we are the grateful dead
put me in the bed and give me what I want
I’m tired of the mattress we use it too often
and I will wait for it
I’ll put you in the bed if that’s what you want
use your body to hammer the nails in my coffin
and I will wait for it
if we’re playing musical chairs
on the decks of titanic’s you know
all of us are racing for the seat nailed to the bow
and I want all my kids to know that
when I started drowning today
everyone was diving in to know
if we are the faithful living, then we are the great
ay mi hijos
if I started bleeding today
call up every vampire you know
I just wanted all my children, all my kids to know that..
if we are the faithful living, then we are the grateful dead
put me in the bed and give me what I want
I’m tired of the mattress we use it too often
and I will wait for it
I’ll put you in the bed if that’s what you want
use your body to hammer the nails in my coffin
and I will wait for it
if we’re playing musical chairs
on the decks of titanic’s you know
all of us are racing for the seat nailed to the bow
and I want all my kids to know that
when I started drowning today
everyone was diving in to know
if we are the faithful living, then we are the great
Lyrics submitted by AGumby
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