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"
Will My Ankles Touch The Floor
Cause I Can't See Them Anymore And
Why Are These Things Now So Clear To Me
The Past And Present Only Make The Proof
Of Humans Big Mistake
And Others How Have Sight Refuse To See
In The Future
All The Strong Will Meet The Wise
In The Future
I Can See It In My Eyes
What Does It Mean
At The End Of It
What Will It Mean
When Our Voices Quit Sound
Contraception Obsolete
The Water Drank Will Do The Deed
And Nary Will The Men Suspect A Thing
Power Aphrodisiac
Where Nature Comes To Bring Us Back
Without The Consequence Of What It Brings
In The Future
All The Strong Will Meet The Wise
In The Future
I Can See It In My Eyes
What Does It Mean
At The End Of It
What Will It Mean
When Our Voices Quit Sound
Cannibals From Normal Men
Past The Point And Back Again
And Unsuspecting Pittsburgh Is The Key
One Thousand Strong Will Roam The Street
And Dictate What They Want To Eat
While Victims Of The Strangeness Try To Flee
In The Future
All The Strong Will Meet The Wise
In The Future
I Can See It In My Eyes
What Does It Mean
At The End Of It
What Will It Mean
When Our Voices Quit Sound
It's So Real
It's So Real To Me
What I Choose
What I Choose To See
It's So Real
It's So Real To Me
What I Choose
What I Choose To See
I Don't Make The (?)
I Just Know The Outcome
Hear Me Now And Heed My Call
The Mighty Criswell Sees It All
Events That Happen Soon Will Prove My Case
One Day You'll Look Back On Me
And Know My Visions Were The Key
To Conservation Of The Human Race
In The Future
All The Strong Will Meet The Wise
In The Future
I Can See It In My Eyes
What Does It Mean
At The End Of It
What Will It Mean
When Our Voices Quit Sound
In The Future
All The Strong Will Meet The Wise
In The Future
I Can See It In My Eyes
What Does It Mean
At The End Of It
What Will It Mean
When Our Voices Quit Sound
Cause I Can't See Them Anymore And
Why Are These Things Now So Clear To Me
The Past And Present Only Make The Proof
Of Humans Big Mistake
And Others How Have Sight Refuse To See
In The Future
All The Strong Will Meet The Wise
In The Future
I Can See It In My Eyes
What Does It Mean
At The End Of It
What Will It Mean
When Our Voices Quit Sound
Contraception Obsolete
The Water Drank Will Do The Deed
And Nary Will The Men Suspect A Thing
Power Aphrodisiac
Where Nature Comes To Bring Us Back
Without The Consequence Of What It Brings
In The Future
All The Strong Will Meet The Wise
In The Future
I Can See It In My Eyes
What Does It Mean
At The End Of It
What Will It Mean
When Our Voices Quit Sound
Cannibals From Normal Men
Past The Point And Back Again
And Unsuspecting Pittsburgh Is The Key
One Thousand Strong Will Roam The Street
And Dictate What They Want To Eat
While Victims Of The Strangeness Try To Flee
In The Future
All The Strong Will Meet The Wise
In The Future
I Can See It In My Eyes
What Does It Mean
At The End Of It
What Will It Mean
When Our Voices Quit Sound
It's So Real
It's So Real To Me
What I Choose
What I Choose To See
It's So Real
It's So Real To Me
What I Choose
What I Choose To See
I Don't Make The (?)
I Just Know The Outcome
Hear Me Now And Heed My Call
The Mighty Criswell Sees It All
Events That Happen Soon Will Prove My Case
One Day You'll Look Back On Me
And Know My Visions Were The Key
To Conservation Of The Human Race
In The Future
All The Strong Will Meet The Wise
In The Future
I Can See It In My Eyes
What Does It Mean
At The End Of It
What Will It Mean
When Our Voices Quit Sound
In The Future
All The Strong Will Meet The Wise
In The Future
I Can See It In My Eyes
What Does It Mean
At The End Of It
What Will It Mean
When Our Voices Quit Sound
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In the Future Lyrics as written by Robert Kleiner Kevin Charles Gibson
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