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"
Picture perfect
Starting to hold on
To these new eyes
My (my) worlds drawn out in crayon
All the lives we come across
We shine a light to see our own
Remember back to every story told
Who you were
Before the rush hour
Carousel
Dared to see the world
With your own two eyes
So you've made mistakes
Now who's wide awake
It's a tidal wave
Our worlds collide
Become one in the starlight
Forget perfect endings
Let's dare and live for the day
Today
Today's like no other
Words come alive
In the story of our time
Let's all quit pretending
Let's dare and live for the day
Today
Today's like no other
I am home
Hit a wall
But there ain't no shutting this door
We're gonna live
Keep faith
We gonna soar soar soar
To a higher ground
We charge to claim our own
Remember back to every story told
Who you were
Before the rush hour
Carousel
Dare to see the world with your own two eyes
Yeah you've made mistakes
Now who's wide awake
It's a tidal wave
Hello world
Forget what's the play
But we're gonna look to shake this rust away
Our worlds collide
Become 1 in the starlight
Forget perfect endings
Let's dare and live for the day
Today
Today's like no other
Cuz i'm just gonna live my life
Pick up the pieces
Of what's been left behind
Bring back the memories
Of that special time
No doubt
No fear
No question i know what's gotten me here
My sweet escape
Hello long goodbyes
I AM
Our worlds collide
Become one in the starlight
Forget perfect endings
Let's dare and live for the day
Today
Today's like no other
Words come alive
In the story of our time
Let's all quit pretending
Let's dare and live for the day
Today
Today's like no other
I am home
Remember who you are
Remember who you are
I am ..i am ..i am
Home
Our words come alive
In the story of our time
Between wish and the waiting
Let's dare and live for the day
Starting to hold on
To these new eyes
My (my) worlds drawn out in crayon
All the lives we come across
We shine a light to see our own
Remember back to every story told
Who you were
Before the rush hour
Carousel
Dared to see the world
With your own two eyes
So you've made mistakes
Now who's wide awake
It's a tidal wave
Our worlds collide
Become one in the starlight
Forget perfect endings
Let's dare and live for the day
Today
Today's like no other
Words come alive
In the story of our time
Let's all quit pretending
Let's dare and live for the day
Today
Today's like no other
I am home
Hit a wall
But there ain't no shutting this door
We're gonna live
Keep faith
We gonna soar soar soar
To a higher ground
We charge to claim our own
Remember back to every story told
Who you were
Before the rush hour
Carousel
Dare to see the world with your own two eyes
Yeah you've made mistakes
Now who's wide awake
It's a tidal wave
Hello world
Forget what's the play
But we're gonna look to shake this rust away
Our worlds collide
Become 1 in the starlight
Forget perfect endings
Let's dare and live for the day
Today
Today's like no other
Cuz i'm just gonna live my life
Pick up the pieces
Of what's been left behind
Bring back the memories
Of that special time
No doubt
No fear
No question i know what's gotten me here
My sweet escape
Hello long goodbyes
I AM
Our worlds collide
Become one in the starlight
Forget perfect endings
Let's dare and live for the day
Today
Today's like no other
Words come alive
In the story of our time
Let's all quit pretending
Let's dare and live for the day
Today
Today's like no other
I am home
Remember who you are
Remember who you are
I am ..i am ..i am
Home
Our words come alive
In the story of our time
Between wish and the waiting
Let's dare and live for the day
Lyrics submitted by Emzee4life
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