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 will show you crazy, I'm a maniac
No more final warning, I'm not holding back
I ain't going nowhere, let the roof cave in
'Bout to blow up something, here goes nothing
Watch me hit the cray button
Cray, cray, cray
Let's get cray
Turn it all the way up
Got a double dose of bass
You'll love this so much
Get out of your head
Get out of your skull
If you ain't gettin' cray
Then you ain't got a pulse
A lunatic, a time bomb just got dropped
I get cray all day, it's my full time job
Wild like a wolfpack, howlin' at the moon
Attack, attack, you've been bitten by the wolf
I ain't going nowhere, let the roof cave in
'Bout to blow up something, here goes nothing
Watch me hit the cray button
Cray, cray, cray
Put your fives in the sky if you're feelin' alive
Throw ten up in the air 'cause you don't care
Cray Bans on, rock your cranium
3-2-1, Detonation
I wonder what happens if I hit the cray button?
I guarantee the whole place starts jumpin'
I wonder what happens if I hit the cray button? (Button)
I guarantee the whole place starts jumpin'
I wonder what happens if I hit the cray button? (Button)
I guarantee the whole place starts jumpin'
I wonder what happens if I hit the cray button? (Button)
I'm a do it!
Watch me hit the cray button
Wait, wait, wait, hold up let me do my thing
Hit they cray button I was like you rang?
Came in the party with a couple of friends
Hollerin 116, yeah we so unashamed
Everybody get cray like me,
I'm so cray it's on my ID
Everybody serious looking for deep material
Chill and turn up the stereo and dance like me
Please don't wreck the party
Came to have fun cus the week was hard and
Go nuts, turn up, insane
You ain't seen nothing we about to go cray
If it gets wild I'mma jump in the crowd
And show the whole front row that I know how to fly
You think we on ten? Boy you ain't seen nothing
3, 2, 1 Cray button
I-I hit the cray button
I-I hit hi-hi-hit hit hit
I-I hit the cray button
I-I hi-hit hit
I pledge allegiance to the U.S. Cray (cray),
U.S. Cray, U.S. Cray
I pledge allegiance to the U.S. Cray (cray),
U.S. Cray, U.S. Cray
No more final warning, I'm not holding back
I ain't going nowhere, let the roof cave in
'Bout to blow up something, here goes nothing
Watch me hit the cray button
Cray, cray, cray
Let's get cray
Turn it all the way up
Got a double dose of bass
You'll love this so much
Get out of your head
Get out of your skull
If you ain't gettin' cray
Then you ain't got a pulse
A lunatic, a time bomb just got dropped
I get cray all day, it's my full time job
Wild like a wolfpack, howlin' at the moon
Attack, attack, you've been bitten by the wolf
I ain't going nowhere, let the roof cave in
'Bout to blow up something, here goes nothing
Watch me hit the cray button
Cray, cray, cray
Put your fives in the sky if you're feelin' alive
Throw ten up in the air 'cause you don't care
Cray Bans on, rock your cranium
3-2-1, Detonation
I wonder what happens if I hit the cray button?
I guarantee the whole place starts jumpin'
I wonder what happens if I hit the cray button? (Button)
I guarantee the whole place starts jumpin'
I wonder what happens if I hit the cray button? (Button)
I guarantee the whole place starts jumpin'
I wonder what happens if I hit the cray button? (Button)
I'm a do it!
Watch me hit the cray button
Wait, wait, wait, hold up let me do my thing
Hit they cray button I was like you rang?
Came in the party with a couple of friends
Hollerin 116, yeah we so unashamed
Everybody get cray like me,
I'm so cray it's on my ID
Everybody serious looking for deep material
Chill and turn up the stereo and dance like me
Please don't wreck the party
Came to have fun cus the week was hard and
Go nuts, turn up, insane
You ain't seen nothing we about to go cray
If it gets wild I'mma jump in the crowd
And show the whole front row that I know how to fly
You think we on ten? Boy you ain't seen nothing
3, 2, 1 Cray button
I-I hit the cray button
I-I hit hi-hi-hit hit hit
I-I hit the cray button
I-I hi-hit hit
I pledge allegiance to the U.S. Cray (cray),
U.S. Cray, U.S. Cray
I pledge allegiance to the U.S. Cray (cray),
U.S. Cray, U.S. Cray
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