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"
I see you trembling like the earth is falling from your feet; like you've never felt the ground before
An indication that you're over your head again; that you don't know how to settle the score
I would be lying if I told you that I didn't know the way that you could fix it all
If you're stacking your problems like a pile of bricks
You gotta knock down the wall before someone, like you, breaks you and puts you in the ground...
Do the heavens ever spare the crop when the winter falls?
Could we really hide if the reaper calls?
And so it goes...
The lamb will be lead to the loam...
...and you will return
I see a hesitating grimace held above your chin
Like you haven't thought of this before...
And though the sentiment keeps you from letting go...
You know it's irresistible
To hear those voices hush you must be cold
In times when peace of mind is bought and sold
Cause someone, like you, would break you and put you in the ground...
Do the heavens ever spare the crop when the winter falls?
Could we really hide if the reaper calls?
And so it goes...
The lamb will be lead to the loam...
...and you won't return
Don't you want to see him fall apart
So you can pick the pieces up and put him back together?
Finally building up the perfect pawn...
Another shadow lost in the dark
Another shadow lost in the dark
An indication that you're over your head again; that you don't know how to settle the score
I would be lying if I told you that I didn't know the way that you could fix it all
If you're stacking your problems like a pile of bricks
You gotta knock down the wall before someone, like you, breaks you and puts you in the ground...
Do the heavens ever spare the crop when the winter falls?
Could we really hide if the reaper calls?
And so it goes...
The lamb will be lead to the loam...
...and you will return
I see a hesitating grimace held above your chin
Like you haven't thought of this before...
And though the sentiment keeps you from letting go...
You know it's irresistible
To hear those voices hush you must be cold
In times when peace of mind is bought and sold
Cause someone, like you, would break you and put you in the ground...
Do the heavens ever spare the crop when the winter falls?
Could we really hide if the reaper calls?
And so it goes...
The lamb will be lead to the loam...
...and you won't return
Don't you want to see him fall apart
So you can pick the pieces up and put him back together?
Finally building up the perfect pawn...
Another shadow lost in the dark
Another shadow lost in the dark
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