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"
My Sweet Summer is gone
She left me here
With sand in my bed
She played me all night long
But I'd do it all over again, Oh
My Sweet Summer is gone
And on my mirror, she made it clear
Her Lipstick can't be wrong
My summer, summer, my sweet summer is gone
My Sweet Summer is gone
Warm was the weather outside the day we met
Blue was the color of skies the day she left
Short was the time we had, it was the best
'Cause long were the nights we spent with no rest
I met her on a Friday, she left on a Monday
Wrote me a letter said she hoped to see me someday
We had a good time, I can't deny that
You can be my sunshine every time you fly back
Cause there's another one you're loving, and
I hate to see you go
My Sweet Summer is gone
She left me here
With sand in my bed
She played me all night long
But I'd do it all over again, Ooh
My Sweet Summer is gone
And on my mirror, she made it clear
Her Lipstick can't be wrong
My summer, summer, my sweet summer is gone
My Sweet Summer is gone
Yeah she left in the morning, gone without warning
Fun while it lasted, lost in the moment
She played me real good, took me for a ride
Now she's off on an airplane, back to real life
Yeah she dipped out
Smoked all my weed then she flipped out
Left in my slumber, waited 'til I passed out
And on my dresser was a paper and her number
I filled up with grass and I burned it, for summer
Cause there's another one you're loving, and
I hate to see you go
My Sweet Summer is gone
She left me here
With sand in my bed
She played me all night long
But I'd do it all over again, Ooh
My Sweet Summer is gone
And on my mirror, she made it clear
Her Lipstick can't be wrong
My summer, summer, my sweet summer is gone
My Sweet Summer is gone
Left like a midnight thief
You ain't no friend to me
How could you lead me on?
Now my sweet summer is gone
My Sweet Summer is gone
Now my Sweet Summer is gone
My Sweet Summer is gone
Now my Sweet Summer is gone
She left me here
With sand in my bed
She played me all night long
But I'd do it all over again, Oh
My Sweet Summer is gone
And on my mirror, she made it clear
Her Lipstick can't be wrong
My summer, summer, my sweet summer is gone
My Sweet Summer is gone
Warm was the weather outside the day we met
Blue was the color of skies the day she left
Short was the time we had, it was the best
'Cause long were the nights we spent with no rest
I met her on a Friday, she left on a Monday
Wrote me a letter said she hoped to see me someday
We had a good time, I can't deny that
You can be my sunshine every time you fly back
Cause there's another one you're loving, and
I hate to see you go
My Sweet Summer is gone
She left me here
With sand in my bed
She played me all night long
But I'd do it all over again, Ooh
My Sweet Summer is gone
And on my mirror, she made it clear
Her Lipstick can't be wrong
My summer, summer, my sweet summer is gone
My Sweet Summer is gone
Yeah she left in the morning, gone without warning
Fun while it lasted, lost in the moment
She played me real good, took me for a ride
Now she's off on an airplane, back to real life
Yeah she dipped out
Smoked all my weed then she flipped out
Left in my slumber, waited 'til I passed out
And on my dresser was a paper and her number
I filled up with grass and I burned it, for summer
Cause there's another one you're loving, and
I hate to see you go
My Sweet Summer is gone
She left me here
With sand in my bed
She played me all night long
But I'd do it all over again, Ooh
My Sweet Summer is gone
And on my mirror, she made it clear
Her Lipstick can't be wrong
My summer, summer, my sweet summer is gone
My Sweet Summer is gone
Left like a midnight thief
You ain't no friend to me
How could you lead me on?
Now my sweet summer is gone
My Sweet Summer is gone
Now my Sweet Summer is gone
My Sweet Summer is gone
Now my Sweet Summer is gone
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