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"
Good evening
Philadelphia
I can't believe what I just said
I got up again
Like a monkey
And I raged right through the set
We went outside
Into an autumn wind
Running scared from the crowd
Headed out for an all night cafe
Where the waitresses got off on singing loud
I'm just a small town noise
I'm just a
Small town noise
I'm just a small town noise
I'm just a
Small town noise
Easy does it
Washington D.C.
What a state you're in
Looks like you've cracked
A hundred hallelujahs
Through
Fifty nights of sin
You get hungry for some leg over easy
Or packing someone`s pistol in the hood
It doesn't mean
You're not as fucking boring
As some dirty dark river that don`t move
[Chorus]
I'm just the village voice
I'm just the
Village voice
I'm just the village voice
I'm just the
Village voice
I'm just the village voice
I found out that
I realize
I need you
More than you need me
I realize
I need you
More than you need me
Goodbye
Denver Colorado
Goodbye Portland Maine
So long
Baden Baden
So bad they named you once again
We'll be breezing through the
Windy city
For the
Last time you`ll see
The only way the traffic`ll stop
Is if some angel flies down and touches me
[Chorus]
I realize
I need you
More than you need me
I realize
I need you
More than you need me
Philadelphia
I can't believe what I just said
I got up again
Like a monkey
And I raged right through the set
We went outside
Into an autumn wind
Running scared from the crowd
Headed out for an all night cafe
Where the waitresses got off on singing loud
I'm just a small town noise
I'm just a
Small town noise
I'm just a small town noise
I'm just a
Small town noise
Easy does it
Washington D.C.
What a state you're in
Looks like you've cracked
A hundred hallelujahs
Through
Fifty nights of sin
You get hungry for some leg over easy
Or packing someone`s pistol in the hood
It doesn't mean
You're not as fucking boring
As some dirty dark river that don`t move
[Chorus]
I'm just the village voice
I'm just the
Village voice
I'm just the village voice
I'm just the
Village voice
I'm just the village voice
I found out that
I realize
I need you
More than you need me
I realize
I need you
More than you need me
Goodbye
Denver Colorado
Goodbye Portland Maine
So long
Baden Baden
So bad they named you once again
We'll be breezing through the
Windy city
For the
Last time you`ll see
The only way the traffic`ll stop
Is if some angel flies down and touches me
[Chorus]
I realize
I need you
More than you need me
I realize
I need you
More than you need me
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