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"
(Mike Will made it)
Drive my heart into the night
You can drop the keys off in the morning (in the morning)
'Cause I don't wannna leave home, without your love
Without it
You told me that you wanted this
I told you it was all yours, if you're done with it
Then what you say forever for?
If forevers out the door
I'll ignore, when you call
Drive my heart into the night
Yeah
You can drop the keys off in the morning (in the morning)
'Cause I don't want to leave home, without your love
Without it
You told me you were coming back (right back)
Promised it was real and I believed that
But if I fall for it again, I will be a fool
If our love is at the end, then why do I still want you yeah
But I guess I got no valentine
Send me roses I just let 'em die
I was crazy thinking you were mine
It was all just a lie
Drive my heart into the night
You can drop the keys off in the morning
'Cause I don't want to leave home, (leave home) without your love
Without it
I always knew I never wanted this
I never thought it could happen (it could happen)
You acted like you wanted this
But then you led me on (led me on)
I thought you would be there when I go (I go)
You promised you would be there when I go (I go)
But all the broken promises I won't miss, I'm finished
All I know are the facts
That when I look you in the eyes all I see are the lies
Been there, done that
Drive my heart into the night
You can drop the keys off in the morning (In the morning)
'Cause I don't want to leave home, without your love
Without it hey hey, uh
Drive my heart into the night
You can drop the keys off in the morning (in the morning)
'Cause I don't wannna leave home, without your love
Without it
You told me that you wanted this
I told you it was all yours, if you're done with it
Then what you say forever for?
If forevers out the door
I'll ignore, when you call
Drive my heart into the night
Yeah
You can drop the keys off in the morning (in the morning)
'Cause I don't want to leave home, without your love
Without it
You told me you were coming back (right back)
Promised it was real and I believed that
But if I fall for it again, I will be a fool
If our love is at the end, then why do I still want you yeah
But I guess I got no valentine
Send me roses I just let 'em die
I was crazy thinking you were mine
It was all just a lie
Drive my heart into the night
You can drop the keys off in the morning
'Cause I don't want to leave home, (leave home) without your love
Without it
I always knew I never wanted this
I never thought it could happen (it could happen)
You acted like you wanted this
But then you led me on (led me on)
I thought you would be there when I go (I go)
You promised you would be there when I go (I go)
But all the broken promises I won't miss, I'm finished
All I know are the facts
That when I look you in the eyes all I see are the lies
Been there, done that
Drive my heart into the night
You can drop the keys off in the morning (In the morning)
'Cause I don't want to leave home, without your love
Without it hey hey, uh
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This song breaks my heart.
Beautiful, perfect. My favorite of Bangerz. Gives me chills, breaks my heart and makes me wanna cry
Based off rumors, and maybe truth, this is about a particular fight she had with Liam back in February 2013. Or, more so, the feelings that she felt after this particular fight.
It's pretty clear what it means. He wasn't fulfilling his end of the relationship, backing out of their commitment and possibly being unfaithful. She loved him but had to accept that he just wasn't in it for the long-run.