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"
Between the words that I don't say
Beneath your sacred nights and days
Through the gales of life and laughter
when you can't you see what you're after
The evenings and the afternoons
are measured out in coffee spoons
Between the sunshine and the rain
I thought I'd have something more to say
It's a new life for the neighbours
with their name in all the papers, don't you know?
Don't you know?
Should we go out for a laugh?
I've a faded photograph
of one day in some September
that we had and can't remember
Should your god refute the facts
and science not take up the slack?
You could get your money back
for all you want and all you have
It's a new day for the neighbours
with their name in all the papers, don't you know?
Don't you know?
It's a new day for the neighbours
with their name in all the papers, don't you know?
Don't you know?
I'm looking for some better day
I'm looking for some better way
Through the gales of life and laughter
when you don't know what you're after
will drag me to the kitchen sink
My whole day is on the brink
From here I can still see the moon
I think I'll move there someday soon
It's a new day for the neighbours
with their name in all the papers, don't you know?
Don't you know?
It's a new life for the neighbours
with their name in all the papers, don't you know?
Don't you know?
Beneath your sacred nights and days
Through the gales of life and laughter
when you can't you see what you're after
The evenings and the afternoons
are measured out in coffee spoons
Between the sunshine and the rain
I thought I'd have something more to say
It's a new life for the neighbours
with their name in all the papers, don't you know?
Don't you know?
Should we go out for a laugh?
I've a faded photograph
of one day in some September
that we had and can't remember
Should your god refute the facts
and science not take up the slack?
You could get your money back
for all you want and all you have
It's a new day for the neighbours
with their name in all the papers, don't you know?
Don't you know?
It's a new day for the neighbours
with their name in all the papers, don't you know?
Don't you know?
I'm looking for some better day
I'm looking for some better way
Through the gales of life and laughter
when you don't know what you're after
will drag me to the kitchen sink
My whole day is on the brink
From here I can still see the moon
I think I'll move there someday soon
It's a new day for the neighbours
with their name in all the papers, don't you know?
Don't you know?
It's a new life for the neighbours
with their name in all the papers, don't you know?
Don't you know?
Lyrics submitted by Contaminator
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