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"
One day the asteroid came down
So we went underground
They said it came from the
Sky sky sky sky sky
This family's nuclear now
We brought enough of canned chow
So we can sur
Vive vive vive vive vive
Our memories fade with time
(Time time time time time)
I just wish I could hold onto mine
(Mine mine mine mine mine)
It has been so long I don't remember
What this all was like before
The past got locked outside the door
I don't remember anymore
This epoch it took us to its ending
Finding all our new beginnings
Memory is just a chore
I don't remember anymore
It has been so long I don't remember
What this all was like before
The past we lived, what was it for?
I don't remember anymore
I just hope that we can stick together
Even in the cloudy weather
Never what we were before
I don't remember anymore
I don't like all of the change
Don't want more of the same
Let's just take it
Slow slow slow slow slow
I think I'm doing better now
I'm slowly learning how
To just go with the
Flow flow flow flow flow
Our memories fade with time
(Time time time time time)
I just wish I could hold onto mine
(Mine mine mine mine mine)
It has been so long I don't remember
What this all was like before
The past got locked outside the door
I don't remember anymore
This epoch it took us to its ending
Finding all our new beginnings
Memory is just a chore
I don't remember anymore
It has been so long I don't remember
What this all was like before
The past we lived, what was it for?
I don't remember anymore
I just hope that we can stick together
Even in the cloudy weather
Never what we were before
I don't remember anymore
Our memories fade with time
(I don't remember anymore)
I just wish I could hold onto mine
(I don't remember anymore)
It has been so long I don't remember
What this all was like before
The past got locked outside the door
I don't remember anymore
This epoch it took us to its ending
Finding all our new beginnings
Memory is just a chore
I don't remember anymore
It has been so long I don't remember
What this all was like before
The past we lived, what was it for?
I don't remember anymore
I just hope that we can stick together
Even in the cloudy weather
Never what we were before
I don't remember anymore
It has been so long I don't remember
What this all was like before
The past got locked outside the door
I don't remember anymore
So we went underground
They said it came from the
Sky sky sky sky sky
This family's nuclear now
We brought enough of canned chow
So we can sur
Vive vive vive vive vive
Our memories fade with time
(Time time time time time)
I just wish I could hold onto mine
(Mine mine mine mine mine)
It has been so long I don't remember
What this all was like before
The past got locked outside the door
I don't remember anymore
This epoch it took us to its ending
Finding all our new beginnings
Memory is just a chore
I don't remember anymore
It has been so long I don't remember
What this all was like before
The past we lived, what was it for?
I don't remember anymore
I just hope that we can stick together
Even in the cloudy weather
Never what we were before
I don't remember anymore
I don't like all of the change
Don't want more of the same
Let's just take it
Slow slow slow slow slow
I think I'm doing better now
I'm slowly learning how
To just go with the
Flow flow flow flow flow
Our memories fade with time
(Time time time time time)
I just wish I could hold onto mine
(Mine mine mine mine mine)
It has been so long I don't remember
What this all was like before
The past got locked outside the door
I don't remember anymore
This epoch it took us to its ending
Finding all our new beginnings
Memory is just a chore
I don't remember anymore
It has been so long I don't remember
What this all was like before
The past we lived, what was it for?
I don't remember anymore
I just hope that we can stick together
Even in the cloudy weather
Never what we were before
I don't remember anymore
Our memories fade with time
(I don't remember anymore)
I just wish I could hold onto mine
(I don't remember anymore)
It has been so long I don't remember
What this all was like before
The past got locked outside the door
I don't remember anymore
This epoch it took us to its ending
Finding all our new beginnings
Memory is just a chore
I don't remember anymore
It has been so long I don't remember
What this all was like before
The past we lived, what was it for?
I don't remember anymore
I just hope that we can stick together
Even in the cloudy weather
Never what we were before
I don't remember anymore
It has been so long I don't remember
What this all was like before
The past got locked outside the door
I don't remember anymore
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