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"
[00:00]
Only one truth feels real tonight. It's a dark truth; a truth that holds hearts heavy and burdens souls to their depths. One truth that never leaves: we're all lonely beings. We search for meaning in plain passing moments. We try to fill the void with people; but quickly find that loneliness doesn't tame with quantity.
Our story begins with young Nicholson. He's aged just 28 years, but the blues in his eyes begs you to stay and take a deeper look into his dejection. Nicholson has found himself, once again, amidst strangers while riding the metro through his moonlit city as music fills his ears, conjuring up images of more blissful seasons of life. Scenes of his previous happiness flicker through his mind with every passing stop on his train.
The elderly lady 2 seats ahead of him peacefully sleeping, the children behind him playing with model cars, the couple in love expressing their affection for each other; they all are present in their own realities. Nicholson ponders the juxtaposition of this moment as he feels at one with these people since they are all journeying together, but has no other reason to care for the other travelers.
His heart feels much too tight within the walls of his chest, such fear should not be nearly so familiar to such a young man. Not many are able to detect the source of his sadness. The moon emerges from the cloudy sky his eyes and shadows fall upon his face as he watches the world pass by his window. Nicholson thrives on the night. It's his reality. His truth.
[02:18]
Only one truth feels real tonight. It's a dark truth; a truth that holds hearts heavy and burdens souls to their depths. One truth that never leaves: we're all lonely beings. We search for meaning in plain passing moments. We try to fill the void with people; but quickly find that loneliness doesn't tame with quantity.
Our story begins with young Nicholson. He's aged just 28 years, but the blues in his eyes begs you to stay and take a deeper look into his dejection. Nicholson has found himself, once again, amidst strangers while riding the metro through his moonlit city as music fills his ears, conjuring up images of more blissful seasons of life. Scenes of his previous happiness flicker through his mind with every passing stop on his train.
The elderly lady 2 seats ahead of him peacefully sleeping, the children behind him playing with model cars, the couple in love expressing their affection for each other; they all are present in their own realities. Nicholson ponders the juxtaposition of this moment as he feels at one with these people since they are all journeying together, but has no other reason to care for the other travelers.
His heart feels much too tight within the walls of his chest, such fear should not be nearly so familiar to such a young man. Not many are able to detect the source of his sadness. The moon emerges from the cloudy sky his eyes and shadows fall upon his face as he watches the world pass by his window. Nicholson thrives on the night. It's his reality. His truth.
[02:18]
Lyrics submitted by Octavarium64
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