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"
You gave me more than I hoped for
Your right to take it all away
The trouper you are you always leave them wanting more
But it won't always be that way
Happy I died happy
Look who's coming on down
(You've got everything and your bird can sing
One day it will fly away)
Happy I died happy
Look who's coming on down
(You've got everything and your bird can sing
One day it will fly away)
Here's a boy with time on his side
Here's the girl too stupid to hide
(Away from all...)
All the mistakes I have seen you make before
Just tell me, who'll be your friend when it all comes down
Your big screen self is half of what you could be
I'm still brushing stardust from my body, gee
Oh gee, oh boy look at you now,
Johnny, what's left of you is meant for me
When it all comes down, you'll see
Happy I died happy
Look who's coming on down
(You've got everything and your bird can sing
One day it will fly away)
Happy I died happy
Look who's coming on down
(You've got everything and your bird can sing
One day it will fly away)
Here's a boy with time on his side
Here's the girl too stupid to hide
(Away from all...)
All the mistakes I have seen you make before
Just tell me, who'll be your friend when it all comes down.
It's gonna fall hard
Harder than you think
Sooner than you think
You'll see it's gonna come down
Harder than you think
Sooner than you think
You'll see it's gonna come down
Your right to take it all away
The trouper you are you always leave them wanting more
But it won't always be that way
Happy I died happy
Look who's coming on down
(You've got everything and your bird can sing
One day it will fly away)
Happy I died happy
Look who's coming on down
(You've got everything and your bird can sing
One day it will fly away)
Here's a boy with time on his side
Here's the girl too stupid to hide
(Away from all...)
All the mistakes I have seen you make before
Just tell me, who'll be your friend when it all comes down
Your big screen self is half of what you could be
I'm still brushing stardust from my body, gee
Oh gee, oh boy look at you now,
Johnny, what's left of you is meant for me
When it all comes down, you'll see
Happy I died happy
Look who's coming on down
(You've got everything and your bird can sing
One day it will fly away)
Happy I died happy
Look who's coming on down
(You've got everything and your bird can sing
One day it will fly away)
Here's a boy with time on his side
Here's the girl too stupid to hide
(Away from all...)
All the mistakes I have seen you make before
Just tell me, who'll be your friend when it all comes down.
It's gonna fall hard
Harder than you think
Sooner than you think
You'll see it's gonna come down
Harder than you think
Sooner than you think
You'll see it's gonna come down
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