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"
I think she's the prettiest lady I've ever seen
Her hair it has meaning and volume and such a sheen
Sometimes, I think maybe I could go and talk to her
Her eyes, they look lonely far away and inner
Oh baby, the socialites who act so nice
Won't ever begin to let you in
They'll act surprised, apologize
We'll never let on the face you wear is wrong
I'm gonna try combing my hair in a thousand ways
Maybe he will notice and maybe look my way
Oh baby, the other guys who act so nice
Won't ever begin to let you in
Stars in their eyes, they'll apologize
Won't ever let on then you meet someone real
But they don't know where I'm going
It's not impossible
to show her, to show it, to open up
The socialites who act so nice
We'll never begin to let you in
They'll act surprised, then apologize
Won't ever let on, the face you wear is all wrong
I'm glad they're the ones on the other side of the glass
Who knows what my spirit is worth in cold hard cash
Oh baby
Her hair it has meaning and volume and such a sheen
Sometimes, I think maybe I could go and talk to her
Her eyes, they look lonely far away and inner
Oh baby, the socialites who act so nice
Won't ever begin to let you in
They'll act surprised, apologize
We'll never let on the face you wear is wrong
I'm gonna try combing my hair in a thousand ways
Maybe he will notice and maybe look my way
Oh baby, the other guys who act so nice
Won't ever begin to let you in
Stars in their eyes, they'll apologize
Won't ever let on then you meet someone real
But they don't know where I'm going
It's not impossible
to show her, to show it, to open up
The socialites who act so nice
We'll never begin to let you in
They'll act surprised, then apologize
Won't ever let on, the face you wear is all wrong
I'm glad they're the ones on the other side of the glass
Who knows what my spirit is worth in cold hard cash
Oh baby
Lyrics submitted by VelouriumC, edited by hnavarro
The Socialites Lyrics as written by Amber Coffman David Longstreth
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'Her eyes, they look lonely far away in allure' (?)
I think the third to last stanza is actually:
but they don't know where I'm going it's not impossible to show BUT to show IS to open up
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