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"
Sitting here with nothing to say
Looking out the window it just rained
But the sun's up for the day
And there's probably a rainbow
But I don't care
'Cause all the colors left with you
Thinking about driving around in your car
I never thought that we would take it very far
I just love talking, and then parking
Then we go walking
I loved you so much
I just started watching TV
I get so high 'cause you're not here smoking my weed
And I get so bored
'Cause you're not here to make me laugh
You're so cute
In your space suit
In your space boots
Space dude
Since you've left I've started to drink
Sometimes when I do drugs I'll start to overthink
And I start crying
I think I'm dying
But I'm just tripping spiraling down this hole
Oh space dude in your space boots
I got to be high to deal with your moods
But maybe it's me and I got to change my views
Oh space dude in your space suit
Our love it takes us to the moon
But you leave me up there I'm so maroon
Space dude in your space boots in your space suit
Space dude
Space dude in your space boots in your space suit
Space dude
Every time we talk I feel like shit
I guess I was just tryin' to avoid letting myself feel like this
'Cause it makes me feel like I might die
But every second I'm doing that anyway
My biggest fear is not being with you
The pain is so excruciating I don't know what I'd do
We're both vegan
It makes it easy to think it never hurt anything
Living intentionally
Oh space dude in your space boots
I got to be high to deal with your moods
But maybe it's me and I got to change my views
Oh space dude in your space suit
Our love it takes us to the moon
But you leave me up there I'm so maroon
Space dude oh space dude
Looking out the window it just rained
But the sun's up for the day
And there's probably a rainbow
But I don't care
'Cause all the colors left with you
Thinking about driving around in your car
I never thought that we would take it very far
I just love talking, and then parking
Then we go walking
I loved you so much
I just started watching TV
I get so high 'cause you're not here smoking my weed
And I get so bored
'Cause you're not here to make me laugh
You're so cute
In your space suit
In your space boots
Space dude
Since you've left I've started to drink
Sometimes when I do drugs I'll start to overthink
And I start crying
I think I'm dying
But I'm just tripping spiraling down this hole
Oh space dude in your space boots
I got to be high to deal with your moods
But maybe it's me and I got to change my views
Oh space dude in your space suit
Our love it takes us to the moon
But you leave me up there I'm so maroon
Space dude in your space boots in your space suit
Space dude
Space dude in your space boots in your space suit
Space dude
Every time we talk I feel like shit
I guess I was just tryin' to avoid letting myself feel like this
'Cause it makes me feel like I might die
But every second I'm doing that anyway
My biggest fear is not being with you
The pain is so excruciating I don't know what I'd do
We're both vegan
It makes it easy to think it never hurt anything
Living intentionally
Oh space dude in your space boots
I got to be high to deal with your moods
But maybe it's me and I got to change my views
Oh space dude in your space suit
Our love it takes us to the moon
But you leave me up there I'm so maroon
Space dude oh space dude
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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