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"
DJ: Public Enemy - ah, in their music ah, kinda rabble rousing. They, ah, talk about, ah, well things like...
DJ:You know the white media has been very upset about some of the things you're saying in your songs
DJ:Some of the people are very upset about the things you are saying
DJ: On the air- Hello?
Caller: Yes, hello?
DJ: Yes?
Caller: Ah, I've seen these guys - I saw them warm up for the
Beastie Boys last year
DJ: How were they?
Caller: How were they? I thought it was one of the most appalling things I have ever seen. There were two gentlemen in cages on either side of the stage with fake Uzis...
There were, a, Jesus it, it was unbelievable. And when I see somebody who's wearing one of their shirts
I think that they're scum too
DJ: Hello?
PE in full effect, Brother!
DJ: Hello?
Caller: Why do you even pay homage to these people by putting these monkeys on?
DJ: Hello? Hello?
Caller: ...then have the guts to tell him that he doesn't know what he's talking about
DJ: Hello?
Caller: Terminator X!
DJ: Thank you. Terminator X is one of the members on the group
On the air (3X)
Caller: Go back to Africa?
DJ: OK, we're going to (ha ha) - believe me when we go to these phones, people are going to tell you to do just that, Chuck
Caller: (Yes, hello?) Yes, I think that White liberals like
Yourself have difficulty understanding that Chuck's views represent the frustrations of the majority of black youth out there today
DJ: I do understand that
Caller: Yeah, but before he came on, you were -
DJ: If you had read the stuff I had read about him, and the way
He's been portrayed in American press-
DJ:You know the white media has been very upset about some of the things you're saying in your songs
DJ:Some of the people are very upset about the things you are saying
DJ: On the air- Hello?
Caller: Yes, hello?
DJ: Yes?
Caller: Ah, I've seen these guys - I saw them warm up for the
Beastie Boys last year
DJ: How were they?
Caller: How were they? I thought it was one of the most appalling things I have ever seen. There were two gentlemen in cages on either side of the stage with fake Uzis...
There were, a, Jesus it, it was unbelievable. And when I see somebody who's wearing one of their shirts
I think that they're scum too
DJ: Hello?
PE in full effect, Brother!
DJ: Hello?
Caller: Why do you even pay homage to these people by putting these monkeys on?
DJ: Hello? Hello?
Caller: ...then have the guts to tell him that he doesn't know what he's talking about
DJ: Hello?
Caller: Terminator X!
DJ: Thank you. Terminator X is one of the members on the group
On the air (3X)
Caller: Go back to Africa?
DJ: OK, we're going to (ha ha) - believe me when we go to these phones, people are going to tell you to do just that, Chuck
Caller: (Yes, hello?) Yes, I think that White liberals like
Yourself have difficulty understanding that Chuck's views represent the frustrations of the majority of black youth out there today
DJ: I do understand that
Caller: Yeah, but before he came on, you were -
DJ: If you had read the stuff I had read about him, and the way
He's been portrayed in American press-
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