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"
Are you living in a nightmare,
One that eats away your soul?
Does it leave you feeling empty,
Does it leave you feeling cold?
So you're living in a nightmare
Well I'm living in one too
But I'm trying to prevent the storm
From bearing down on you
There are rats on every corner
There are serpents in the street
You know hell is coming for you
Now there's demons at your feet
When it all comes crashing down
And you don't know where to go
Yeah you think the world is ending?
That's a feeling that I know
Don't be so quick to shut me out
I know it's hard to face the day
But we can make it out together
Feel your nightmare slip away
Are you living in a nightmare,
One that eats away your soul?
Does it leave you feeling empty,
Does it leave you feeling cold?
So you're living in a nightmare
Well I'm living in one too
But I'm trying to prevent the storm
From bearing down on you
I swear the storms are building faster
Swear the walls are caving in
But every time we start to falter
I know we can look within
When it all comes crashing down
And you don't know where to go
Yeah you think the world is ending?
But I swear you're not alone
Don't be so quick to shut me out
I know it's hard to face the day
But we can make it out together
Feel your nightmares slip away
Are you living in a nightmare,
One that eats away your soul?
Does it leave you feeling empty,
Does it leave you feeling cold?
So you're living in a nightmare
Well I'm living in one too
But I'm trying to prevent the storm
From bearing down on you
You know love still fills your lungs
We breathe the same air
Love still fills your lungs
You know love still fills your lungs
We breathe the same air
And you are far too fucking young
To let the weight of the world destroy you
So one more night, breathe for me
I know the deep blue's stretched between us
But you are never too far from me
Are you living in a nightmare,
Does it leave you feeling empty,
Does it leave you feeling cold?
So you're living in a nightmare
Well I'm living in one too
But I'm trying to prevent the storm
From bearing down on you
Are you living in a nightmare?
Are you living in a nightmare?
One that eats away your soul?
Does it leave you feeling empty,
Does it leave you feeling cold?
So you're living in a nightmare
Well I'm living in one too
But I'm trying to prevent the storm
From bearing down on you
There are rats on every corner
There are serpents in the street
You know hell is coming for you
Now there's demons at your feet
When it all comes crashing down
And you don't know where to go
Yeah you think the world is ending?
That's a feeling that I know
Don't be so quick to shut me out
I know it's hard to face the day
But we can make it out together
Feel your nightmare slip away
Are you living in a nightmare,
One that eats away your soul?
Does it leave you feeling empty,
Does it leave you feeling cold?
So you're living in a nightmare
Well I'm living in one too
But I'm trying to prevent the storm
From bearing down on you
I swear the storms are building faster
Swear the walls are caving in
But every time we start to falter
I know we can look within
When it all comes crashing down
And you don't know where to go
Yeah you think the world is ending?
But I swear you're not alone
Don't be so quick to shut me out
I know it's hard to face the day
But we can make it out together
Feel your nightmares slip away
Are you living in a nightmare,
One that eats away your soul?
Does it leave you feeling empty,
Does it leave you feeling cold?
So you're living in a nightmare
Well I'm living in one too
But I'm trying to prevent the storm
From bearing down on you
You know love still fills your lungs
We breathe the same air
Love still fills your lungs
You know love still fills your lungs
We breathe the same air
And you are far too fucking young
To let the weight of the world destroy you
So one more night, breathe for me
I know the deep blue's stretched between us
But you are never too far from me
Are you living in a nightmare,
Does it leave you feeling empty,
Does it leave you feeling cold?
So you're living in a nightmare
Well I'm living in one too
But I'm trying to prevent the storm
From bearing down on you
Are you living in a nightmare?
Are you living in a nightmare?
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