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"
We're coming
They're going
They're smoking their hash
Spending your address
We've only got to look around
To know these boys are sound
We're here looking at sights
We're not here for the fights
Fights, fights
Keep trying to bring me down
I'll go out
And I'm chilled out
As life is still living
I'm staying around
Looking for a life
Listening to sounds
Things going off, all around
Kids getting shot
Turn your face to the ground
Hey kids, hey kids stay around
We're not here
We're not here
We're not here to live
Live life for the brawl
Hey kid, we've all got to die
Pick yourself up
Reach for the sky
Hearts full of power
Hearts full of power
Blood's running in and out of my veins
In and out,in and out of my veins
The love, the love comes from inside
The girl is so lovely
So this is for you babe
I'm going to stay true
Because of my love, that's here for you
Sneaking out of school
Looking for something to do
Caught up with the law
You think I'll make it through?
Two kids sitting in local
With my back against the wall
Center of this
It's mister behavior
Waiting to have a brawl
Sneaking out of school
Looking for something to do
Caught up with the law
Do you think I'll make it through?
Sitting in a local
With my back against the wall
Back against the wall
It's mister behavior
Waiting for the brawl
I wake up in the morning
I'm looking at you
I wake up in the morning
I'm looking at you
Playing your love
Knowing I'm there to live life for you
Babe, keep staying true
We're flying through
It will be sad
Living life here without you
We have another toll check
While my dj plays the house decks
See I like the hard age underground
But we're looking for our own sound
Exclude us from the street
We're against what they usually beat
I think it's just a load of drivel
That keeps me hungry and living
Keeping up with a fast pace
Is like some crazy race
I never thought that having a go
I take pistols in the snow
He thinks he's gonna take me
I don't think so
Late night antics
Here we go again
Moving as neighbors
'cause moving is them
Tight t-shirt boys
On their wheels,jeans with those
Forget the cheap thrills
Just walk, just walking the streets
Kids having a go
See it in the face no more
They see us guests,look love
Late night antics
Here we go again
Move these neighbors
'cause moving is them
Tight t-shirt boys
Hollow wheels,jeans with those
Forget the cheap thrills
Just walking the streets
Kids having a go
Can't see your face no more
They see us guests,look love
They're going
They're smoking their hash
Spending your address
We've only got to look around
To know these boys are sound
We're here looking at sights
We're not here for the fights
Fights, fights
Keep trying to bring me down
I'll go out
And I'm chilled out
As life is still living
I'm staying around
Looking for a life
Listening to sounds
Things going off, all around
Kids getting shot
Turn your face to the ground
Hey kids, hey kids stay around
We're not here
We're not here
We're not here to live
Live life for the brawl
Hey kid, we've all got to die
Pick yourself up
Reach for the sky
Hearts full of power
Hearts full of power
Blood's running in and out of my veins
In and out,in and out of my veins
The love, the love comes from inside
The girl is so lovely
So this is for you babe
I'm going to stay true
Because of my love, that's here for you
Sneaking out of school
Looking for something to do
Caught up with the law
You think I'll make it through?
Two kids sitting in local
With my back against the wall
Center of this
It's mister behavior
Waiting to have a brawl
Sneaking out of school
Looking for something to do
Caught up with the law
Do you think I'll make it through?
Sitting in a local
With my back against the wall
Back against the wall
It's mister behavior
Waiting for the brawl
I wake up in the morning
I'm looking at you
I wake up in the morning
I'm looking at you
Playing your love
Knowing I'm there to live life for you
Babe, keep staying true
We're flying through
It will be sad
Living life here without you
We have another toll check
While my dj plays the house decks
See I like the hard age underground
But we're looking for our own sound
Exclude us from the street
We're against what they usually beat
I think it's just a load of drivel
That keeps me hungry and living
Keeping up with a fast pace
Is like some crazy race
I never thought that having a go
I take pistols in the snow
He thinks he's gonna take me
I don't think so
Late night antics
Here we go again
Moving as neighbors
'cause moving is them
Tight t-shirt boys
On their wheels,jeans with those
Forget the cheap thrills
Just walk, just walking the streets
Kids having a go
See it in the face no more
They see us guests,look love
Late night antics
Here we go again
Move these neighbors
'cause moving is them
Tight t-shirt boys
Hollow wheels,jeans with those
Forget the cheap thrills
Just walking the streets
Kids having a go
Can't see your face no more
They see us guests,look love
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