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"
Part of me wants to break the ice
And part of me wants to leave it exactly how it stands
Part of me wants to roll the dice
And part of me wants to leave them curled up in my hands
Where they will be safe and no one will know
How I really feel and I'll never be real
And I'll roll with the punches that I'll never feel
And I'll have a heart that no one can steal
It's you and me and you're nowhere to be found
I'm rolling on the ground
It's me and you and I'm nowhere to be found
Part of me wants to break these chains
And part of me wants to keep them locked up tight
Part of me wants to stop these rains
And part of me wants them to fall all night
Fall on my head just to wake me up
Anything to drench my half-empty cup
And I'm sorry, baby, I've had enough
I'm tired of your promises, tired of my love
It's you and me and you're nowhere to be found
I'm rolling on the ground
It's me and you and I'm nowhere to be found
You will be safe and no one will know
How you really feel, you'll never be real
And you'll roll with the punches that you'll never feel
And you'll have a heart that I'll never steal
It's you and me and you're nowhere to be found
I'm rolling on the ground
It's me and you and I'm nowhere to be found
It's you and me and you're nowhere to be found
It's you and me and you're nowhere to be found
And part of me wants to leave it exactly how it stands
Part of me wants to roll the dice
And part of me wants to leave them curled up in my hands
Where they will be safe and no one will know
How I really feel and I'll never be real
And I'll roll with the punches that I'll never feel
And I'll have a heart that no one can steal
It's you and me and you're nowhere to be found
I'm rolling on the ground
It's me and you and I'm nowhere to be found
Part of me wants to break these chains
And part of me wants to keep them locked up tight
Part of me wants to stop these rains
And part of me wants them to fall all night
Fall on my head just to wake me up
Anything to drench my half-empty cup
And I'm sorry, baby, I've had enough
I'm tired of your promises, tired of my love
It's you and me and you're nowhere to be found
I'm rolling on the ground
It's me and you and I'm nowhere to be found
You will be safe and no one will know
How you really feel, you'll never be real
And you'll roll with the punches that you'll never feel
And you'll have a heart that I'll never steal
It's you and me and you're nowhere to be found
I'm rolling on the ground
It's me and you and I'm nowhere to be found
It's you and me and you're nowhere to be found
It's you and me and you're nowhere to be found
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You & Me Lyrics as written by Noel Hogan Dolores Mary O'riordan
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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