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"
If you love somebody
You better let it out
Don't hold it back
While you're trying to figure it out
Don't be timid
Don't be afraid to hurt
Run toward the flame
Run toward the fire
And hold on for all your worth
'Cause the only real pain a heart can ever know
Is the sorrow of regret
When you don't let your feelings show
So did you say it
Did you mean it
Did you lay it on the line
Did you make it count
Did you look 'em in the eye
And did they feel it
Did you say it in time
Did you say it out loud
'Cause if you did hun
Then you lived some
That feeling inside
That's called satisfied
Busy people walking by
Can't help but worry some
So many things to do
So little love gets done
Empty hearts everywhere
Drowning but dying of thirst
If we want love
It's not that tough
Start by giving it first
It's easy to give
Baby can't you see
Just close your eyes, open your heart
And do what comes naturally
So did you say it
Did you mean it
Did you lay it on the line
Did you make it count
Did you look 'em in the eye
And did they feel it
Did you say it in time
Did you say it out loud
'Cause if you did hun
Then you lived some
That feeling inside
That's called satisfied
Horses are built to run
The sun is meant to shine above
Flowers are made to bloom
And then there's us
We were born to love
We were born to love
So did you say it
Did you mean it
Did you lay it on the line
Did you say it
Did you mean it
Did you lay it on the line
Did you make it count
Did you look 'em in the eye
And did they feel it
Did you say it in time
Did you say it out loud
Because if you did hun
Then you lived some
That feeling inside
That's called satisfied
La la la la la la
It's called satisfied
La la la
You better let it out
Don't hold it back
While you're trying to figure it out
Don't be timid
Don't be afraid to hurt
Run toward the flame
Run toward the fire
And hold on for all your worth
'Cause the only real pain a heart can ever know
Is the sorrow of regret
When you don't let your feelings show
So did you say it
Did you mean it
Did you lay it on the line
Did you make it count
Did you look 'em in the eye
And did they feel it
Did you say it in time
Did you say it out loud
'Cause if you did hun
Then you lived some
That feeling inside
That's called satisfied
Busy people walking by
Can't help but worry some
So many things to do
So little love gets done
Empty hearts everywhere
Drowning but dying of thirst
If we want love
It's not that tough
Start by giving it first
It's easy to give
Baby can't you see
Just close your eyes, open your heart
And do what comes naturally
So did you say it
Did you mean it
Did you lay it on the line
Did you make it count
Did you look 'em in the eye
And did they feel it
Did you say it in time
Did you say it out loud
'Cause if you did hun
Then you lived some
That feeling inside
That's called satisfied
Horses are built to run
The sun is meant to shine above
Flowers are made to bloom
And then there's us
We were born to love
We were born to love
So did you say it
Did you mean it
Did you lay it on the line
Did you say it
Did you mean it
Did you lay it on the line
Did you make it count
Did you look 'em in the eye
And did they feel it
Did you say it in time
Did you say it out loud
Because if you did hun
Then you lived some
That feeling inside
That's called satisfied
La la la la la la
It's called satisfied
La la la
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