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'm so like you will be
Listen up, you ought to know
The time has come to choose at least one
Most of them are pretty good
Someone should've been there to tell me
I just needed someone to say
Wait just a second
You're missing the whole point
Of the exercise, count to ten
And try not to think like you should
So what do you think of your new god?
Keep the faith, it's understood
That you were right, just like everyone else
And you are different, just like the rest
Someone should've been there to tell you
You just needed someone to say
Wait just a second
You're missing the whole point
Of the exercise, count to ten
And try not to think like you should
And try not to think like you should
Someone should've been there to tell me
I just needed someone to say
Wait just a second
You're missing the whole point
Of the exercise, count to ten
And try not to think take a sec
And try not to think, hold your breath
And try not to think take a sec
And try not to think like you should
And try not to think like you should
Listen up, you ought to know
The time has come to choose at least one
Most of them are pretty good
Someone should've been there to tell me
I just needed someone to say
Wait just a second
You're missing the whole point
Of the exercise, count to ten
And try not to think like you should
So what do you think of your new god?
Keep the faith, it's understood
That you were right, just like everyone else
And you are different, just like the rest
Someone should've been there to tell you
You just needed someone to say
Wait just a second
You're missing the whole point
Of the exercise, count to ten
And try not to think like you should
And try not to think like you should
Someone should've been there to tell me
I just needed someone to say
Wait just a second
You're missing the whole point
Of the exercise, count to ten
And try not to think take a sec
And try not to think, hold your breath
And try not to think take a sec
And try not to think like you should
And try not to think like you should
Lyrics submitted by ncc74656m
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