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"
Shut down, give up the fight (Slamming the door, been here before, where do we go?)
Stay drunk all night (That was a good one, he keeps a seat open at the bar)
Might not work out alright (Boy letting go, leave it alone, leave it alone)
Look to love someone
Look to love somebody, name you never heard of
Just a high night on the bridge, the one you're burning
A love walked out (Where did it go, can't find my phone, all the way down)
Check the lost and found (You're getting older, keep getting slow, all the way down)
Feeling underground (Too many texts now, just be the one, yeah)
Could you love somebody?
Could you hold another's care above your bright lights?
Could you open up your heart or you too uptight?
Could you work to build something besides a wall?
Could you love somebody, anyone at all?
Now it won't be undone (Sleeping that off, leaving the pole, leaving the pole)
And it won't be too long ([?] at dawn, writing a song, writing a song)
You can feel it, come on (Breaking the bones, suck marrow down, suck marrow down)
It's a heartbeat, bump-bump (Biting the bullet, breaking me down, breaking me down)
Alright, yeah it's alright, for the ways, the world, all ending
But it's been done, yeah it's alright
But let's [?] looking forward
Could you love somebody?
Could you strip the ego bare, let love take flight?
Could you open up your heart?
Could you love somebody?
Could you hold another's care above your bright lights?
Could you open up your heart or you too uptight?
Could you work to build something besides a wall?
Could you love somebody, anyone at all?
Stay drunk all night (That was a good one, he keeps a seat open at the bar)
Might not work out alright (Boy letting go, leave it alone, leave it alone)
Look to love someone
Look to love somebody, name you never heard of
Just a high night on the bridge, the one you're burning
A love walked out (Where did it go, can't find my phone, all the way down)
Check the lost and found (You're getting older, keep getting slow, all the way down)
Feeling underground (Too many texts now, just be the one, yeah)
Could you love somebody?
Could you hold another's care above your bright lights?
Could you open up your heart or you too uptight?
Could you work to build something besides a wall?
Could you love somebody, anyone at all?
Now it won't be undone (Sleeping that off, leaving the pole, leaving the pole)
And it won't be too long ([?] at dawn, writing a song, writing a song)
You can feel it, come on (Breaking the bones, suck marrow down, suck marrow down)
It's a heartbeat, bump-bump (Biting the bullet, breaking me down, breaking me down)
Alright, yeah it's alright, for the ways, the world, all ending
But it's been done, yeah it's alright
But let's [?] looking forward
Could you love somebody?
Could you strip the ego bare, let love take flight?
Could you open up your heart?
Could you love somebody?
Could you hold another's care above your bright lights?
Could you open up your heart or you too uptight?
Could you work to build something besides a wall?
Could you love somebody, anyone at all?
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