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"
Wormtail: Draco, at times like this, we Death Eaters say you must “Get Lord Voldemort’s behind.”
Voldemort: No. No. No.
Wormtail: Sorry my lord...
Voldemort: Amateur. It's “Get behind Lord Voldemort.” Draco, a bad thing needs to happen, and it’s up to you.
Draco: That’s not what they teach us at Hogwarts.
Voldemort: Then maybe you need a new lesson! Avada Kedavra! What a wonderful curse.
Wormtail: Avada Kedavra! They don’t get any worse.
Voldemort: It means no Harry, better call him a hearse…
Wormtail: Okay… he’s a hearse!
Voldemort and Wormtail: Ha! It’s our trouble-free, artillery…
Voldemort: Avada Kedavra!
Draco: Avada Kedavra?
Wormtail: Yeah. It's our favorite hex!
Draco: What's a hex?
Voldemort: Geez kid, what the hex wrong with you? Ha ha ha!
Wormtail: Ha ha ha! Good one, my lord. Draco, those two words will solve all your problems.
Voldemort: That's right. Take Wormtail here… Why, when he was a young Hogwarts (student)...
Wormtail: When I was a young Hogwarts (student).
Voldemort: Very nice.
Wormtail: Heh heh, thank you.
Voldemort: He found his persona lacked a certain appeal, he was teased and abused, till he squirmed and he squealed...
Wormtail: I'm a sensitive soul, and I was so chagrined, that they put me in Gryffindor, and not Slytherin, and oh, the shame!
Voldemort: He was ashamed!
Wormtail: Such a lame nickname!
Voldemort: Yeah, Wormtail’s pretty lame.
Wormtail: And I wanted to quit...
Voldemort: How did ya feel?
Wormtail: Well, I felt like…
Voldemort: Hey! Wormy! Not in front of the kids!
Wormtail: Oh. Sorry.
Voldemort and Wormtail: Avada Kedavra! So nicely depraved! Avada Kedavra!
Voldemort: Even though you don’t shave (yet).
Draco: It means no Harry, he’ll go straight to the grave.
Voldemort: Yeah, sing it kid!
Voldemort and Draco: It's our recipe...
Wormtail: For anarchy...
All: Avada Kedavra!
Voldemort: Welcome to the dark side.
Draco: You’re all killers?
Voldemort: We kill whoever we want.
Wormtail: Yup! Turn 'em into rump roasts!
Draco: That’s beautiful!
Wormtail: That Order of the Phoenix makes me so mad!
Draco: I’m so angry I could kill a house-elf.
Voldemort: Heh… we don’t need a house-elf killed… yet.
Draco: An owl?
Voldemort: Nuh-uh.
Draco: Harry Potter?!
Voldemort: No, he’s mine! Listen, if you’re going be a Death Eater, you have to act like a Death Eater. And there’s one fella that REALLY needs to… go away.
Draco: Oooh, who’s that?
Voldemort: A certain headmaster… who did you think?
Draco: Ohhhh…. Wow…
Voldemort: Oh yeah… I hope you’re not chicken.
Wormtail: Unforgivable, yet satisfying!
Voldemort: This is a rare opportunity.
Wormtail: Mmm hmmm.
Voldemort: Mmmm… he’ll die with a very pleasant crunch.
Wormtail: You’ll learn to love it!
Voldemort: I’m tellin’ you kid, this is the great life. No rules, no accountability… Oooh! The little muggle kind. And best of all… we’re all pureblood!
Wormtail: Ahem…
Voldemort: That is, except me. Well, kid?
Draco: Oh well…
Wormtail: Hey! Don’t point that at me!
Draco: Avada Kedavra!
Wormtail: Aaagh!
Draco: Unforgivable, yet satisfying.
Voldemort: That’s it!
Draco and Voldemort: Avada Kedavra! Avada Kedavra! Avada Kedavra! Avada --
Draco: It means no Wormy, and Dumbledore’s in his grave.
All: Love to hear them scream, in that flash of green...
Voldemort: Avada Kedavra!
Voldemort and Wormtail: Avada Kedavra! Avada Kedavra! Avada Kedavra! Avada Kedavra! Avada Kedavra! Avada Kedavra! Avada Kedavra!
Draco: Avada Kedavra! Ooo ooo ooo…
Voldemort: Avada Kedavra! Ha ha ha ha!
Draco: Ah... ooo ooo…
Voldemort: That’s right… it’s the circle of death…
Draco: Avada Kedavra!
Voldemort: Be prepared… can you feel the death tonight?
Wormtail: My hand hurts…
Draco: Avada Kedavra!
Voldemort: I just can’t wait to be king! King… King Voldemort… that’s, that’s me… King Voldemort!
Lyrics submitted by JohnnyLurg
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