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"
Escape, gotta get away
I need a break, gotta get away
I left my house this morning
On my way to work
Some lady on the train spilled
Coffee on my shirt
And people started laughing like the
Whole thing was funny
I woulda went home except I need the money
'Cause times is hard, my boss is crazy
The guy that works with me he's so damn lazy
Sit's around all day drinks coffee and tea
He expects all the work to be done by me
And sometimes I wonder what they hired me for
To operate computers or run to the store
And when I ask for a raise
They tell me be patient
I've been working three years
Without a damn vacation
Things could be better but
They're gettin' worse
Until I got this job I never used to curse
Well, I've had it up to here
With people treating me wrong
Somebody tell the DJ to play my song!
Escape, gotta get away
I need a break, gotta get away
I buy a lottery ticket every chance I get
And if I hit I got someplace my boss can kiss
My friends are backstabbing so
I hang out alone think it's crazy on my job
It's no better at home
My girl's half mad, she drives me wild
All she ever cares about
Is rippin' the styles
She wants diamonds, furs
And now she wants kids
But what she needs is somewhere else to live
My psychiatrist tells me to
Give her more time
But one more second might blow my mind
The pressure's building up on
Me more and more
It's gotten so I'm doing things
I've never done before
I need a break, y'all
I can't take this place
I feel locked up and I wanna escape
And I wanna escape, and I wanna escape
Escape, escape, escape, escape
Escape! escape, escape
So you wanna leave your job
But you need the funds
Take a sick day off and find another one
And if your girl or your
Man ain't treatin' you right
Just the same buncha headaches
Night after night
Don't go crazy trying to please somebody else
You don't owe them a thing
But you owe it yourself
So do what you gotta in order to escape
Take it from me it's never too late
'Cause I'm breaking these chains
I may never come back
Going to go out and give myself a rap attack
And if I like it a lot I'm
Going to make it a double
And if you stand in my
Way you're looking for trouble
There's only one way for me to have peace
And that's for me to go
Out and rock the beat, ha
So turn up the highs, boost up the bass
Come on everybody let's rock the place!
Gotta get away escape, gotta get away
I need a break gotta get away
Escape, gotta get away
I need a break, gotta get away
I need a break, gotta get away
I left my house this morning
On my way to work
Some lady on the train spilled
Coffee on my shirt
And people started laughing like the
Whole thing was funny
I woulda went home except I need the money
'Cause times is hard, my boss is crazy
The guy that works with me he's so damn lazy
Sit's around all day drinks coffee and tea
He expects all the work to be done by me
And sometimes I wonder what they hired me for
To operate computers or run to the store
And when I ask for a raise
They tell me be patient
I've been working three years
Without a damn vacation
Things could be better but
They're gettin' worse
Until I got this job I never used to curse
Well, I've had it up to here
With people treating me wrong
Somebody tell the DJ to play my song!
Escape, gotta get away
I need a break, gotta get away
I buy a lottery ticket every chance I get
And if I hit I got someplace my boss can kiss
My friends are backstabbing so
I hang out alone think it's crazy on my job
It's no better at home
My girl's half mad, she drives me wild
All she ever cares about
Is rippin' the styles
She wants diamonds, furs
And now she wants kids
But what she needs is somewhere else to live
My psychiatrist tells me to
Give her more time
But one more second might blow my mind
The pressure's building up on
Me more and more
It's gotten so I'm doing things
I've never done before
I need a break, y'all
I can't take this place
I feel locked up and I wanna escape
And I wanna escape, and I wanna escape
Escape, escape, escape, escape
Escape! escape, escape
So you wanna leave your job
But you need the funds
Take a sick day off and find another one
And if your girl or your
Man ain't treatin' you right
Just the same buncha headaches
Night after night
Don't go crazy trying to please somebody else
You don't owe them a thing
But you owe it yourself
So do what you gotta in order to escape
Take it from me it's never too late
'Cause I'm breaking these chains
I may never come back
Going to go out and give myself a rap attack
And if I like it a lot I'm
Going to make it a double
And if you stand in my
Way you're looking for trouble
There's only one way for me to have peace
And that's for me to go
Out and rock the beat, ha
So turn up the highs, boost up the bass
Come on everybody let's rock the place!
Gotta get away escape, gotta get away
I need a break gotta get away
Escape, gotta get away
I need a break, gotta get away
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