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"
do the years add up to the suck and the blow
of a breath and a beating heart there must be more
you can wash your face at the sunset song
but the lines will still remain, they'll never be gone
will you bely (???) your land with a furrowed brow
but king harvest leaves with a thinning crown
you may bow your head as the hair recedes
but it's filled with years that no one can steal
when the work stops working
what was light becomes a weight
when the work stops working
shall we pack it all in?
when the work stops working
and the weight becomes an ache
when the work stops working
shall we pack it all in?
or start again?
ah the search for answers is an idiot's task
i'm not halfway there but don't want to ask
the search gives the glint to the older eye
and i'll keep on looking till the day i die
is the work half worth it when your hands grow raw
when your knees keep creeking like an old barn door
the gloves of love become an old man's friend
and you'll learn to make a stand not to stoop and bend
when the work stops working
what was light becomes a weight
when the work stops working
shall we pack it all in?
when the work stops working
and the weight becomes an ache
when the work stops working
shall we pack it all in?
or start again?
the lines remain and they will never be gone
life is filled with years no one can steal
i'll keep on looking till the day i die
i'll learn to make a stand not stoop and bend
when the work stops working
what was light becomes a weight
when the work stops working
shall we pack it all in?
when the work stops working
and the weight becomes an ache
when the work stops working
shall we pack it all in?
or start again?
of a breath and a beating heart there must be more
you can wash your face at the sunset song
but the lines will still remain, they'll never be gone
will you bely (???) your land with a furrowed brow
but king harvest leaves with a thinning crown
you may bow your head as the hair recedes
but it's filled with years that no one can steal
when the work stops working
what was light becomes a weight
when the work stops working
shall we pack it all in?
when the work stops working
and the weight becomes an ache
when the work stops working
shall we pack it all in?
or start again?
ah the search for answers is an idiot's task
i'm not halfway there but don't want to ask
the search gives the glint to the older eye
and i'll keep on looking till the day i die
is the work half worth it when your hands grow raw
when your knees keep creeking like an old barn door
the gloves of love become an old man's friend
and you'll learn to make a stand not to stoop and bend
when the work stops working
what was light becomes a weight
when the work stops working
shall we pack it all in?
when the work stops working
and the weight becomes an ache
when the work stops working
shall we pack it all in?
or start again?
the lines remain and they will never be gone
life is filled with years no one can steal
i'll keep on looking till the day i die
i'll learn to make a stand not stoop and bend
when the work stops working
what was light becomes a weight
when the work stops working
shall we pack it all in?
when the work stops working
and the weight becomes an ache
when the work stops working
shall we pack it all in?
or start again?
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