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"
When the cap fits
Grin and bear it
When the crew no longer clicks
Grin and bear it
When those beats don't hit
Grin and bear it
When it's time to call it quits
Grin and bear it
LMNO is the beddy bye blanket
Evidence crank it, if it bubbled I drank it
When it troubled I sank it to the floor
Then watched em face first down at Belmont Shores
Umbilical cord
Pumps anti-animosity
These others must be joshin me
Tossin me hostility
Ruining ability
Savor your agility
Silly me, really he's
Full of insecurity
This isn't singular
It's plural
For all your boys and girls, check the better beat bureau
Got a renewal I'm never expired
Southern cali authority cannons stay fired
Tired of these sleepy-heads,
Poor dreds, multibred, grateful dead,
Misled, tires tread, overfed
Defensive defend
Offensive offend
Cordial conversations helps matters mend
When the cap fits
Grin and bear it
When the crew no longer clicks
Grin and bear it
When those beats don't hit
Grin and bear it
When it's time to call it quits
Grin and bear it
When life's the pits
Grin and bear it
Illegal or legit
Grin and bear it
They really should split
Grin and bear it, hey
Grin and bear it, hey
Grin and bear it
I'm ????? receiving
Like fax machines from preteens
Elders I absorb youthfully
Turn inner beauty out
Reversal
Pause for commercial
Short attention span rehearsal
Couldn't fill the gaps
Who's that puttin heart in it
DJs spinnin for recreation or radio station
Either or is it ignore
Get out if you're bored
My gas pedal's floored
The word of God roared
Tangled mic cords on stage is a snakepit
That's where the fake get
Sent without sunlight
Cryin' they've only done right when that's wrong
Word to mom
They've offended the concentrated temple
At times like these it's hard to stay gentle
When the cap fits
Grin and bear it
When the crew no longer clicks
Grin and bear it
When those beats don't hit
Grin and bear it
When it's time to call it quits
Grin and bear it
When life's the pits
Grin and bear it
Illegal or legit
Grin and bear it
They really should split
Grin and bear it, hey
Grin and bear it, hey
Grin and bear it
Grin and bear it
When the crew no longer clicks
Grin and bear it
When those beats don't hit
Grin and bear it
When it's time to call it quits
Grin and bear it
LMNO is the beddy bye blanket
Evidence crank it, if it bubbled I drank it
When it troubled I sank it to the floor
Then watched em face first down at Belmont Shores
Umbilical cord
Pumps anti-animosity
These others must be joshin me
Tossin me hostility
Ruining ability
Savor your agility
Silly me, really he's
Full of insecurity
This isn't singular
It's plural
For all your boys and girls, check the better beat bureau
Got a renewal I'm never expired
Southern cali authority cannons stay fired
Tired of these sleepy-heads,
Poor dreds, multibred, grateful dead,
Misled, tires tread, overfed
Defensive defend
Offensive offend
Cordial conversations helps matters mend
When the cap fits
Grin and bear it
When the crew no longer clicks
Grin and bear it
When those beats don't hit
Grin and bear it
When it's time to call it quits
Grin and bear it
When life's the pits
Grin and bear it
Illegal or legit
Grin and bear it
They really should split
Grin and bear it, hey
Grin and bear it, hey
Grin and bear it
I'm ????? receiving
Like fax machines from preteens
Elders I absorb youthfully
Turn inner beauty out
Reversal
Pause for commercial
Short attention span rehearsal
Couldn't fill the gaps
Who's that puttin heart in it
DJs spinnin for recreation or radio station
Either or is it ignore
Get out if you're bored
My gas pedal's floored
The word of God roared
Tangled mic cords on stage is a snakepit
That's where the fake get
Sent without sunlight
Cryin' they've only done right when that's wrong
Word to mom
They've offended the concentrated temple
At times like these it's hard to stay gentle
When the cap fits
Grin and bear it
When the crew no longer clicks
Grin and bear it
When those beats don't hit
Grin and bear it
When it's time to call it quits
Grin and bear it
When life's the pits
Grin and bear it
Illegal or legit
Grin and bear it
They really should split
Grin and bear it, hey
Grin and bear it, hey
Grin and bear it
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