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"
Goodbye
I don't wanna
Feel the need
To hear your voice
Goodbye
I don't wanna
Feel the need
To see your face
I can't live with
All these things I would say
I can't live with
All these things that I say
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
You never really knew me
Never ever, never ever saw me
Saw me like they did
You never really loved me
Never really, never really loved me
Loved me like they did
With some time
I might wanna
See the way
That you changed
With some time
I might wanna
See how you've been
What you cannot blame
I can't stand it
All these things I forego
I can't stand it
All these things I've let go
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
You never really knew me
Never ever, never ever saw me
Saw me like they did
You never really loved me
Never really, never really loved me
Loved me like they did
You could have told me
Goodbye
You could have told me
Goodbye
You let me try
Knowing there was nothing I could do
To change you
You could have warned me
Knowing there was nothing I could do
To change you
You never really knew me
Never ever, never ever saw me
Saw me like they did
You never really loved me
Never really, never really loved me
Loved me like they did
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
You never really knew me
Never ever, never ever saw me
Saw me like they did
You never really loved me
Never really, never really loved me
Loved me like they did
I don't wanna
Feel the need
To hear your voice
Goodbye
I don't wanna
Feel the need
To see your face
I can't live with
All these things I would say
I can't live with
All these things that I say
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
You never really knew me
Never ever, never ever saw me
Saw me like they did
You never really loved me
Never really, never really loved me
Loved me like they did
With some time
I might wanna
See the way
That you changed
With some time
I might wanna
See how you've been
What you cannot blame
I can't stand it
All these things I forego
I can't stand it
All these things I've let go
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
You never really knew me
Never ever, never ever saw me
Saw me like they did
You never really loved me
Never really, never really loved me
Loved me like they did
You could have told me
Goodbye
You could have told me
Goodbye
You let me try
Knowing there was nothing I could do
To change you
You could have warned me
Knowing there was nothing I could do
To change you
You never really knew me
Never ever, never ever saw me
Saw me like they did
You never really loved me
Never really, never really loved me
Loved me like they did
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Like the first time
You never really knew me
Never ever, never ever saw me
Saw me like they did
You never really loved me
Never really, never really loved me
Loved me like they did
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