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"
Well, I've been searching for a
Way to write you down on my list
But now I know what it's for
It's not a resume or application form
No you're not an asterisk on my resume no more
So now I'll write it down in case you need my help
With singing all your words that raise my settled soul
And now I know the risk was worth it all the while
I just needed a way to see, to see you
And then I wake to find you in my tears
Waited to feel you burn inside me all these years
That's when I know, I know it all goes back to you
Because you are the best that I could do
It's hard to find something clear
When you're surrounded by clouded minds
It's better to know yourself with what little you find
All, all on your own than to
Find yourself with what little they know
So now I'll write it down in case you need my help
With singing all your words that raise my settled soul
And now I know the risk was worth it all the while
I just needed a way to see, to see you
One more day
One more day to show them
One more day
One more day to show that I'm not fazed
And I won't wait not one more day
Way to write you down on my list
But now I know what it's for
It's not a resume or application form
No you're not an asterisk on my resume no more
So now I'll write it down in case you need my help
With singing all your words that raise my settled soul
And now I know the risk was worth it all the while
I just needed a way to see, to see you
And then I wake to find you in my tears
Waited to feel you burn inside me all these years
That's when I know, I know it all goes back to you
Because you are the best that I could do
It's hard to find something clear
When you're surrounded by clouded minds
It's better to know yourself with what little you find
All, all on your own than to
Find yourself with what little they know
So now I'll write it down in case you need my help
With singing all your words that raise my settled soul
And now I know the risk was worth it all the while
I just needed a way to see, to see you
One more day
One more day to show them
One more day
One more day to show that I'm not fazed
And I won't wait not one more day
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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