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"
Talk about the world
I see it everyday
Talk about your heart
And things we have to say
I can here the whales
Whisper in the trees
I can hear their hearts
Calling out to - me
I can hear the waves
Breaking through your heart
I can hear your voice
Calling from the start
I can feel the wheels
Turning up ahead
I can see your voice
Telling me what's there
And the river's not too wide heavy dreaming on the other side
In the summer we'll collide As lovers
Talk without words
We do it all the time
Talking with your heart
Melting into mine
Talk about the boys
When you talk about the girls
I can hear their voice
Ripping 'round the world
And the river's not too wide heavy dreaming on the other side
In the summer we'll be fine like two lovers with a pair of eyes
In the summer we'll collide As lovers
Here come the '90s yeah, yeah, yeah!
Here come the '90s
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (yeah, yeah, yeah!)
Here come the '90s yeah, yeah, yeah!
Here come the '90s
Oooh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (yeah, yeah, yeah!)
Here come the '90s yeah, yeah, yeah!
5 4 3 2 1 In the 21st Century
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In the 21st Century
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In the 21st Century
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In the 21st Century
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In the 21st Century
Yeah! yeah! (yeah!, yeah!, yeah!)
In the 21st Century
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In the 21st Century
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In the 21st Century
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I see it everyday
Talk about your heart
And things we have to say
I can here the whales
Whisper in the trees
I can hear their hearts
Calling out to - me
I can hear the waves
Breaking through your heart
I can hear your voice
Calling from the start
I can feel the wheels
Turning up ahead
I can see your voice
Telling me what's there
And the river's not too wide heavy dreaming on the other side
In the summer we'll collide As lovers
Talk without words
We do it all the time
Talking with your heart
Melting into mine
Talk about the boys
When you talk about the girls
I can hear their voice
Ripping 'round the world
And the river's not too wide heavy dreaming on the other side
In the summer we'll be fine like two lovers with a pair of eyes
In the summer we'll collide As lovers
Here come the '90s yeah, yeah, yeah!
Here come the '90s
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (yeah, yeah, yeah!)
Here come the '90s yeah, yeah, yeah!
Here come the '90s
Oooh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (yeah, yeah, yeah!)
Here come the '90s yeah, yeah, yeah!
5 4 3 2 1 In the 21st Century
(yeah!, yeah!, yeah!)
In the 21st Century
(yeah!, yeah!, yeah!)
In the 21st Century
Yeah! yeah! (yeah!, yeah!, yeah!)
In the 21st Century
(yeah!, yeah!, yeah!)
In the 21st Century
Yeah! yeah! (yeah!, yeah!, yeah!)
In the 21st Century
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In the 21st Century
Yeah! yeah! (yeah!, yeah!, yeah!)
In the 21st Century
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