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"
Everybody knows
That times changed
Times changed
Some boys look older
And the young ones smile in jest
Lads born to be the chosen one
While the wise man sings in the cuckoo's nest
I walked the West End late last night
After seein' an old friend of mine
We talked about this place and the way it was
When a bloke could get a break before these
Times changed
These times changed
These times changed
I heard a DJ spin in Brixton
Some of that fresh massive attack
Here in the house of mass consumption
Where the ecstasy goes fast
On the screen in this month's fashion
Lots of leather and a tattooed breast
Better this than some guru
Who's trying to teach you how to live
When you know
Times changed
Times changed
You know times changed
Times changed
I saw a bastard slap his girl around
I said man have you gone mad
What's gotten into you
That's makin' you so bad
You think love is anything when you
Can't get work, you think life is on TV
Then he turned up some of that speed metal
And said this is what I think
I rode the East End early yesterday
I was hit by the way it's changed
From the days of Krays in my teenage years
When we all knew our place
Now the welfare state is a state of wealth
For some the hope is gone
And a cardboard box in Westminster is hard to
Call a home but you know
Times changed
Times changed
Times changed
Times changed
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
They know that times changed
That times changed
Times changed
Some boys look older
And the young ones smile in jest
Lads born to be the chosen one
While the wise man sings in the cuckoo's nest
I walked the West End late last night
After seein' an old friend of mine
We talked about this place and the way it was
When a bloke could get a break before these
Times changed
These times changed
These times changed
I heard a DJ spin in Brixton
Some of that fresh massive attack
Here in the house of mass consumption
Where the ecstasy goes fast
On the screen in this month's fashion
Lots of leather and a tattooed breast
Better this than some guru
Who's trying to teach you how to live
When you know
Times changed
Times changed
You know times changed
Times changed
I saw a bastard slap his girl around
I said man have you gone mad
What's gotten into you
That's makin' you so bad
You think love is anything when you
Can't get work, you think life is on TV
Then he turned up some of that speed metal
And said this is what I think
I rode the East End early yesterday
I was hit by the way it's changed
From the days of Krays in my teenage years
When we all knew our place
Now the welfare state is a state of wealth
For some the hope is gone
And a cardboard box in Westminster is hard to
Call a home but you know
Times changed
Times changed
Times changed
Times changed
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
They know that times changed
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Times Changed Lyrics as written by Roger Daltrey Gerard Mcmahon
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