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"
Have you ever felt like you woke up on the wrong side of your heart?
Has it ever felt like it's broken, like the world tore it apart?
Have you felt so weak, you could hardly stand,
Like if you ever fell, you could never tell if you'd ever get back up again?
I know it's hard to do but I think you can make it
'Cause I know we can take it, baby we will
Rise, we are young, we are the dreamers, we will fly
When the world will not believe us
We will rise above the ashes
Before this whole life passes us by
You and I, we will rise
It's difficult to try to stay awake when you walk a tired path
And there are moments when it's easier to take the road that leads you back
I'm not the first to say it, and I won't be the last but I want to remind you
I'm there, it's time to hold on, you're stronger than that
But when it gets too tough to find my way home
And I'm stupid enough to try to find it alone
When it feels like there is nothing I can do but give up
I look up, thank God I have you to tell me
I know it's hard to do but I think you can make it
'Cause I know we can take it, yeah baby we will
Rise, we are young, we are the dreamers, we will fly
When the world will not believe us
We will rise above the ashes
Before this whole life passes us by
You and I, we will rise
Ooh, ooh, oh
La la la la la
La la la
Oh we will, we will rise
Rise, we are young, we are the dreamers, we will fly
When the world will not believe us
We will rise above the ashes
Before this whole life passes us by
You and I, we will
Rise, we are young, we are the dreamers, we will fly
When the world will not believe us
We will rise above the ashes
Before this whole life passes us by
You and I, we will rise
We will rise, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
We will rise, we will rise
We will rise above the ashes
Before this whole life passes us by
You and I, we will rise
Has it ever felt like it's broken, like the world tore it apart?
Have you felt so weak, you could hardly stand,
Like if you ever fell, you could never tell if you'd ever get back up again?
I know it's hard to do but I think you can make it
'Cause I know we can take it, baby we will
Rise, we are young, we are the dreamers, we will fly
When the world will not believe us
We will rise above the ashes
Before this whole life passes us by
You and I, we will rise
It's difficult to try to stay awake when you walk a tired path
And there are moments when it's easier to take the road that leads you back
I'm not the first to say it, and I won't be the last but I want to remind you
I'm there, it's time to hold on, you're stronger than that
But when it gets too tough to find my way home
And I'm stupid enough to try to find it alone
When it feels like there is nothing I can do but give up
I look up, thank God I have you to tell me
I know it's hard to do but I think you can make it
'Cause I know we can take it, yeah baby we will
Rise, we are young, we are the dreamers, we will fly
When the world will not believe us
We will rise above the ashes
Before this whole life passes us by
You and I, we will rise
Ooh, ooh, oh
La la la la la
La la la
Oh we will, we will rise
Rise, we are young, we are the dreamers, we will fly
When the world will not believe us
We will rise above the ashes
Before this whole life passes us by
You and I, we will
Rise, we are young, we are the dreamers, we will fly
When the world will not believe us
We will rise above the ashes
Before this whole life passes us by
You and I, we will rise
We will rise, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
We will rise, we will rise
We will rise above the ashes
Before this whole life passes us by
You and I, we will rise
Lyrics submitted by Abbie96
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