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"
A part of me wants to leave you alone
A part of me wants for you to come home
A part of me says I'm livin' a lie (and I'm better off without you)
A part of me says to think it through
A part of me says I'm over you
A part of me wants to say good bye
A part of me is asking why
A part of me wants to leave
But a part of me wants to be here with you
And every time I think that we're over and done
You do something that gets me back lovin' you
And you got me just torn
Torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
You got me just torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
What hurts the most is when we started out
It was cool; it was everything that love's about
But something happened
'Cause I'm feeling so burned out
Because I can't understand you now
(I just can't understand you now, no, oh)
A part of me says it's all my fault
A part of me says he ain't what you want
A part of me says to get my bags
A part of me says I can't do that
A part of me wants to leave
But a part of me wants to be here with you
And every time I think that it's over and done
You make me fall back in love
You got me just torn between the two
Torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
You got me just torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
So many times I, I was ready to go
So many times I, had my foot out the door
So many times I, I thought to give him a chance
Thought he'd be a better man
Now I'm sitting here, and I'm so confused
'Cause I keep fighting myself for you
I don't know how much more I can take
But I can't feel this way
You got me so torn
Torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
You got me just torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
You got me just torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
You got me just torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
You got me just torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
And you got me just torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
A part of me wants for you to come home
A part of me says I'm livin' a lie (and I'm better off without you)
A part of me says to think it through
A part of me says I'm over you
A part of me wants to say good bye
A part of me is asking why
A part of me wants to leave
But a part of me wants to be here with you
And every time I think that we're over and done
You do something that gets me back lovin' you
And you got me just torn
Torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
You got me just torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
What hurts the most is when we started out
It was cool; it was everything that love's about
But something happened
'Cause I'm feeling so burned out
Because I can't understand you now
(I just can't understand you now, no, oh)
A part of me says it's all my fault
A part of me says he ain't what you want
A part of me says to get my bags
A part of me says I can't do that
A part of me wants to leave
But a part of me wants to be here with you
And every time I think that it's over and done
You make me fall back in love
You got me just torn between the two
Torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
You got me just torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
So many times I, I was ready to go
So many times I, had my foot out the door
So many times I, I thought to give him a chance
Thought he'd be a better man
Now I'm sitting here, and I'm so confused
'Cause I keep fighting myself for you
I don't know how much more I can take
But I can't feel this way
You got me so torn
Torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
You got me just torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
You got me just torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
You got me just torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
You got me just torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
And you got me just torn in between the two
'Cause I really wanna be with you
But something is telling me that I should leave
You alone (leave you alone, leave you alone)
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