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 said it was just a Monday
But it was the Tuesday
It was every single week day
You took me out your arms
Yeah you took me out your arms
I said it was just a Wednesday
But it was the Thursday
It even went through to Sunday
You took away the past
Yeah you took away our past
I won't try to lie
You can tell by my face
There's a reason why
I won't try to lie
Is there any way out for me this time
I won't try to lie
You can tell by my face
There's a reason why
I won't try to lie
There isn't any way out for me this time
Tonight is the end of the world, the end of the world
The end of the world for me and you
It's the end of the world, the end of the world
I am gonna be crash and burned
You are gonna be crash and burned
We are just gonna have to learn, we are just gonna have to learn
It's the end of the world, it's the end of the world
You said it was just a one kiss
How could you be so heartless?
But it was more than just a friendship
I took you out my arms
Yeah I took you out my arms
You said it was just a one time
You thought that it would be fine
But you never even realized
I took away the past
Yeah I took away our past
I won't try to lie
You can tell by my face
There's a reason why
I won't try to lie
Is there any way out for me this time
I won't try to lie
You can tell by my face
There's a reason why
I won't try to lie
There isn't any way out for me this time
Tonight is the end of the world, the end of the world
The end of the world for me and you
It's the end of the world, the end of the world
I am gonna be crash and burned
You are gonna be crash and burned
We are just gonna have to learn, we are just gonna have to learn
It's the end of the world, it's the end of the world
It's the end of the world, the end of the world
The end of the world for me and you
It's the end of the world, the end of the world
I am gonna be crash and burned
You are gonna be crash and burned
We are just gonna have to learn, we are just gonna have to learn
It's the end of the world, it's the end of the world
This is the end of the world
This is the end of the world
This is the end of the world
This is the end of the world
This is the end of the world
This is the end of the world
This is the end of the world
This is the end of the world
You said it was just a one kiss
How could you be so heartless?
But it was more than just a friendship
I took you out my arms
Yeah I took you out my arms
But it was the Tuesday
It was every single week day
You took me out your arms
Yeah you took me out your arms
I said it was just a Wednesday
But it was the Thursday
It even went through to Sunday
You took away the past
Yeah you took away our past
I won't try to lie
You can tell by my face
There's a reason why
I won't try to lie
Is there any way out for me this time
I won't try to lie
You can tell by my face
There's a reason why
I won't try to lie
There isn't any way out for me this time
Tonight is the end of the world, the end of the world
The end of the world for me and you
It's the end of the world, the end of the world
I am gonna be crash and burned
You are gonna be crash and burned
We are just gonna have to learn, we are just gonna have to learn
It's the end of the world, it's the end of the world
You said it was just a one kiss
How could you be so heartless?
But it was more than just a friendship
I took you out my arms
Yeah I took you out my arms
You said it was just a one time
You thought that it would be fine
But you never even realized
I took away the past
Yeah I took away our past
I won't try to lie
You can tell by my face
There's a reason why
I won't try to lie
Is there any way out for me this time
I won't try to lie
You can tell by my face
There's a reason why
I won't try to lie
There isn't any way out for me this time
Tonight is the end of the world, the end of the world
The end of the world for me and you
It's the end of the world, the end of the world
I am gonna be crash and burned
You are gonna be crash and burned
We are just gonna have to learn, we are just gonna have to learn
It's the end of the world, it's the end of the world
It's the end of the world, the end of the world
The end of the world for me and you
It's the end of the world, the end of the world
I am gonna be crash and burned
You are gonna be crash and burned
We are just gonna have to learn, we are just gonna have to learn
It's the end of the world, it's the end of the world
This is the end of the world
This is the end of the world
This is the end of the world
This is the end of the world
This is the end of the world
This is the end of the world
This is the end of the world
This is the end of the world
You said it was just a one kiss
How could you be so heartless?
But it was more than just a friendship
I took you out my arms
Yeah I took you out my arms
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