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 know you vie for the good ol' days
And with less of us around, we were a cinch to sway
Does it feel like it's the end of the world
Well maybe it is, but when was it not,
'Cause it's true, me and you
We are all tomorrow's food today
There's no such thing as the good ol' days
The older we all get, the better we all were
There's no such thing as the end of the world
(But just in case!) you'd best batten down and button up
Because it's true, me and you
We are all tomorrow's food today
And with less of us around, we were a cinch to sway
Does it feel like it's the end of the world
Well maybe it is, but when was it not,
'Cause it's true, me and you
We are all tomorrow's food today
There's no such thing as the good ol' days
The older we all get, the better we all were
There's no such thing as the end of the world
(But just in case!) you'd best batten down and button up
Because it's true, me and you
We are all tomorrow's food today
Lyrics submitted by ACrowLeftOfTheMurder, edited by honeyyy
Tomorrow's Food Lyrics as written by Brandon Charles Boyd Benjamin Lee Kenney
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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