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"
This is a brand new problem, a problem without any clues
If you know the clues, it's easy to get through
But you look confused and you don't know what to do
It's hard to get an answer when you haven't got a clue
If you work it out, tell me what you find
If the least you can do is show some restraint
Then the most you can do is get carried away (carried away, carried away)
I can see that you look confused and you don't know what to do
Say what you see, what you like
If you work it out, tell me what you find
We can have a few decent days and nights
If you're meant to be here and you want to be late
The best thing you can do is get lost on the way (lost on the way, lost on the way)
I can see that you look confused and you don't know what to do
Say what you see, what you like
If you work it out, tell me what you find
We can have a few decent days and nights
We can have a few
We can have a few
We can have a few decent days and nights
We can have a few
We can have a few
We can have a few decent days and nights
If you want to make a guess, you should know it's not a game
'Cause you'll never get another chance to make a guess again
(Make a guess again, make a guess again)
This is a brand new problem, a problem without any clues
If you know the clues it's easy to get through
But you look confused and you don't know what to do
It's hard to get an answer if you haven't got a clue
If you want to make a guess, then you should know it's not a game
Never get another chance to make a guess again
If you work it out, tell me what you find (hoo)
If you know the clues, it's easy to get through
But you look confused and you don't know what to do
It's hard to get an answer when you haven't got a clue
If you work it out, tell me what you find
If the least you can do is show some restraint
Then the most you can do is get carried away (carried away, carried away)
I can see that you look confused and you don't know what to do
Say what you see, what you like
If you work it out, tell me what you find
We can have a few decent days and nights
If you're meant to be here and you want to be late
The best thing you can do is get lost on the way (lost on the way, lost on the way)
I can see that you look confused and you don't know what to do
Say what you see, what you like
If you work it out, tell me what you find
We can have a few decent days and nights
We can have a few
We can have a few
We can have a few decent days and nights
We can have a few
We can have a few
We can have a few decent days and nights
If you want to make a guess, you should know it's not a game
'Cause you'll never get another chance to make a guess again
(Make a guess again, make a guess again)
This is a brand new problem, a problem without any clues
If you know the clues it's easy to get through
But you look confused and you don't know what to do
It's hard to get an answer if you haven't got a clue
If you want to make a guess, then you should know it's not a game
Never get another chance to make a guess again
If you work it out, tell me what you find (hoo)
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Decent Days And Nights Lyrics as written by David Craig Barry Hyde
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