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"
Sunday morning, he gets out of bed
Last nights beer, running through his head
His dad says 'son, get a job
Your laying round the house like some kind of slob'
Later that morning on TV
It says 'Know who your mates are, come join the army'
He writes down the number picks up the phone
Hey there Ma, you boy is leaving home
The boy is leaving home
Ten months later, Afghanistan
A twenty-first century Vietnam
Sarge says 'son, take my advice,
Keep your head down, watch out for the road side device'
Back at Bastion things aint that great,
But he's doing his bit, and his with his mates
One Thursday night his on the phone
He says 'My leaves coming up Ma, I'm coming home'
The boy is coming home
Early morning the plane touches down
On a concrete runway, just outside of town
The aircrew take the British flag
Place it on the bodies of those brave lads
And the towns folk gather there
Women weep, little children stare
Five black cars, he's not alone
Hey there Ma, your boys come home
The boy is coming home
Last nights beer, running through his head
His dad says 'son, get a job
Your laying round the house like some kind of slob'
Later that morning on TV
It says 'Know who your mates are, come join the army'
He writes down the number picks up the phone
Hey there Ma, you boy is leaving home
The boy is leaving home
Ten months later, Afghanistan
A twenty-first century Vietnam
Sarge says 'son, take my advice,
Keep your head down, watch out for the road side device'
Back at Bastion things aint that great,
But he's doing his bit, and his with his mates
One Thursday night his on the phone
He says 'My leaves coming up Ma, I'm coming home'
The boy is coming home
Early morning the plane touches down
On a concrete runway, just outside of town
The aircrew take the British flag
Place it on the bodies of those brave lads
And the towns folk gather there
Women weep, little children stare
Five black cars, he's not alone
Hey there Ma, your boys come home
The boy is coming home
Lyrics submitted by Stashyjon
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