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"
Everybody hurts
Everybody bleeds
Everybody bends to fill a need
Everybody's born with their own curse
And I'm not alone
Everybody cries
Everybody breathes
Everybody wants to feel they're free
Deep inside I know what I am worth
A life of my own
It could have been much worse
But it should have been better
I know I'd hurt you, deserted you
And now I see it clear
I pulled you closer, tighter
'Cause I knew you'd disappear
I just can't compromise, apologize
There's nothing you can say
We both knew
It would always end this way
Everybody pains
Everybody grieves
Everybody's making off like thieves
Every soul's aching for release
You're not alone
Everybody lives
Everybody leaves
Everybody begs best on their knees
Everybody's got the same disease
No one's alone
It could have been much worse
But it should have been better
I know I'd hurt you, deserted you
And now I see it clear
I pulled you closer, tighter
'Cause I knew you'd disappear
I just can't compromise, apologize
There's nothing you can say
We both knew
It would always end this way
Knew it'd end this way
We knew it'd end this way
I know I'd hurt you, deserted you
And now I see it clear
I pulled you closer, tighter
'Cause I knew you'd disappear
I just can't compromise, apologize
There's nothing you can say
We both knew
It would always end this way
We both know
It'd always end this way
We both knew
It would always end this way
Everybody bleeds
Everybody bends to fill a need
Everybody's born with their own curse
And I'm not alone
Everybody cries
Everybody breathes
Everybody wants to feel they're free
Deep inside I know what I am worth
A life of my own
It could have been much worse
But it should have been better
I know I'd hurt you, deserted you
And now I see it clear
I pulled you closer, tighter
'Cause I knew you'd disappear
I just can't compromise, apologize
There's nothing you can say
We both knew
It would always end this way
Everybody pains
Everybody grieves
Everybody's making off like thieves
Every soul's aching for release
You're not alone
Everybody lives
Everybody leaves
Everybody begs best on their knees
Everybody's got the same disease
No one's alone
It could have been much worse
But it should have been better
I know I'd hurt you, deserted you
And now I see it clear
I pulled you closer, tighter
'Cause I knew you'd disappear
I just can't compromise, apologize
There's nothing you can say
We both knew
It would always end this way
Knew it'd end this way
We knew it'd end this way
I know I'd hurt you, deserted you
And now I see it clear
I pulled you closer, tighter
'Cause I knew you'd disappear
I just can't compromise, apologize
There's nothing you can say
We both knew
It would always end this way
We both know
It'd always end this way
We both knew
It would always end this way
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M.I.N.E. (End This Way) Lyrics as written by Jason Thomas Grinstead Ivan Moody
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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