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"
You talk to me you talk to my eyes
You talk to me while in your disguise
You say the things that I want to hear
You never say it too clear
It doesn't matter because when you leave
You'll think about the ways to deceive
Forget about the things you believe
Remember lies you conceived
Lie - you live a lie
A fucking lie, your life's a lie
Then their are all the promises they make
Devotion and their word is so fake
Ever-changing and inconsistent
True self so distant
Are you really even in there?
Does it matter do you even care?
Ego grown you now believe
But you're the one that's deceived
Lie - you live a lie
A fucking lie, your life's a lie
Liar - Liar -You lie
Nothing matters but for you to cover the lie
Can't explain your reasons so you just have to deny
Think of all the people that now know
that you're full of shit
All the pieces of your life will never fit
Lie to me
Make me see
All that truth
You believe
I was led
Lies were fed
Nothing left
Truth is dead
Lie - you live a lie
A fucking lie, your life's a lie
You talk to me while in your disguise
You say the things that I want to hear
You never say it too clear
It doesn't matter because when you leave
You'll think about the ways to deceive
Forget about the things you believe
Remember lies you conceived
Lie - you live a lie
A fucking lie, your life's a lie
Then their are all the promises they make
Devotion and their word is so fake
Ever-changing and inconsistent
True self so distant
Are you really even in there?
Does it matter do you even care?
Ego grown you now believe
But you're the one that's deceived
Lie - you live a lie
A fucking lie, your life's a lie
Liar - Liar -You lie
Nothing matters but for you to cover the lie
Can't explain your reasons so you just have to deny
Think of all the people that now know
that you're full of shit
All the pieces of your life will never fit
Lie to me
Make me see
All that truth
You believe
I was led
Lies were fed
Nothing left
Truth is dead
Lie - you live a lie
A fucking lie, your life's a lie
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Lie Lyrics as written by Eddy Quintela Mendonca Christine Mcvie
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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