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"
Do you hear my heart
It rattles and it beats inside a cage
Turning everything that you say into a wave
And you know my love
I’m hidden in your words and in your face
So I’m everywhere that you go, each time and place
Give yourself to me
Give every single part of you that’s real
I’ll see you in the morning
Do you feel the flames
They’re licking at the house and at the gate
Taking everything that we own they do not wait
And you know my love
I’m written in the stars and in your fate
So I’m everything that you are, all love and hate
Give yourself to me
Give every single part of you that’s real
I’ll see you in the morning
It rattles and it beats inside a cage
Turning everything that you say into a wave
And you know my love
I’m hidden in your words and in your face
So I’m everywhere that you go, each time and place
Give yourself to me
Give every single part of you that’s real
I’ll see you in the morning
Do you feel the flames
They’re licking at the house and at the gate
Taking everything that we own they do not wait
And you know my love
I’m written in the stars and in your fate
So I’m everything that you are, all love and hate
Give yourself to me
Give every single part of you that’s real
I’ll see you in the morning
Lyrics submitted by Azazel23
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