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"
We live in a fabled world
Of dreaming boys and wide-eyed girls
Where precious few get a fair start
These times can break you
These times can leave you torn apart
The story starts with genocide
Slavery, those terrorized
Families, cultures torn apart
This ugly truth only the start
And it's a white washed pact
The founding act, revolution or contract?
To subjugate, to torture, to abuse
For the few
We live in a fabled world
Of terror, day and night
All hidden in plain sight
We live in a fabled world
Where the poor and the weak
Are pawns for profit's sake
Lock up mass incarcerate
The new Jim Crow, the new slave trade
If Dr king were here today
He'd fight for much more than a dream
And you should go sign up, join the fight
The rich sleep while you kill tonight
Love thy enemy as yourself
As you carpet bomb him to hell
We live in a fabled world
Of terror, day and night
All hidden in plain sight
We live in a fabled world
Where the poor and the weak
Are pawns for profit's sake
We live in a fabled world
A corpocratic killing field
Where fascist profit's are a lock
These times can break you
These times can leave you torn apart
We live in a fabled world
Of terror, day and night
All hidden in plain sight
We live in a fabled world
Where the poor and the weak
Are pawns for profit's sake
We live in a fabled world
We live in a fabled world
These times can break you
These times can leave you torn apart
Of dreaming boys and wide-eyed girls
Where precious few get a fair start
These times can break you
These times can leave you torn apart
The story starts with genocide
Slavery, those terrorized
Families, cultures torn apart
This ugly truth only the start
And it's a white washed pact
The founding act, revolution or contract?
To subjugate, to torture, to abuse
For the few
We live in a fabled world
Of terror, day and night
All hidden in plain sight
We live in a fabled world
Where the poor and the weak
Are pawns for profit's sake
Lock up mass incarcerate
The new Jim Crow, the new slave trade
If Dr king were here today
He'd fight for much more than a dream
And you should go sign up, join the fight
The rich sleep while you kill tonight
Love thy enemy as yourself
As you carpet bomb him to hell
We live in a fabled world
Of terror, day and night
All hidden in plain sight
We live in a fabled world
Where the poor and the weak
Are pawns for profit's sake
We live in a fabled world
A corpocratic killing field
Where fascist profit's are a lock
These times can break you
These times can leave you torn apart
We live in a fabled world
Of terror, day and night
All hidden in plain sight
We live in a fabled world
Where the poor and the weak
Are pawns for profit's sake
We live in a fabled world
We live in a fabled world
These times can break you
These times can leave you torn apart
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