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 was huddled in a doorway
Fighting off a trance
With my bag pulled to my chest
She asked me if I was waiting for something
I said the answer one thousand times over was yes
Well, here I am
Or a shadow of me
Oh, but deep down inside
My heart runs free
I was used shoes salesman
I was working the graveyard shift
I was listening for the bell on the door when you walk in
I was living in the weeds somewhere
I was breathing through a straw in the swamp
I was gasping for air, wondering what it was for
But I've retired now
And she's better than me
Oh, but deep down inside
She makes the same mistakes as me
Well, sometimes love is all it's supposed to be
But it can break you
Remember, take care of your heart
And cry
Oh, but somehow we'll survive
For another day
By picking up our own feet
I was wandering around in the streets somewhere outside Eden
She came down to let me in
And then she left for the light
I was creeping through, through the brush and shadows
Man, I was scared for my life
But I am saved now
Somebody died for my sins
And I'm so glad it wasn't me
Sometimes lust is not such a crazy thing
But it can break you
Remember, take care of your heart
[?]
Oh, but somehow we'll survive
For another day
Oh, just for another day
Not by walking away
Nah, I'll stay
Sometimes love is all it's supposed to be
But it can break you
Remember, take care of your heart
And cry
Oh, but somehow we'll survive
For another day
Oh, just for another day
For [?] more days
Fighting off a trance
With my bag pulled to my chest
She asked me if I was waiting for something
I said the answer one thousand times over was yes
Well, here I am
Or a shadow of me
Oh, but deep down inside
My heart runs free
I was used shoes salesman
I was working the graveyard shift
I was listening for the bell on the door when you walk in
I was living in the weeds somewhere
I was breathing through a straw in the swamp
I was gasping for air, wondering what it was for
But I've retired now
And she's better than me
Oh, but deep down inside
She makes the same mistakes as me
Well, sometimes love is all it's supposed to be
But it can break you
Remember, take care of your heart
And cry
Oh, but somehow we'll survive
For another day
By picking up our own feet
I was wandering around in the streets somewhere outside Eden
She came down to let me in
And then she left for the light
I was creeping through, through the brush and shadows
Man, I was scared for my life
But I am saved now
Somebody died for my sins
And I'm so glad it wasn't me
Sometimes lust is not such a crazy thing
But it can break you
Remember, take care of your heart
[?]
Oh, but somehow we'll survive
For another day
Oh, just for another day
Not by walking away
Nah, I'll stay
Sometimes love is all it's supposed to be
But it can break you
Remember, take care of your heart
And cry
Oh, but somehow we'll survive
For another day
Oh, just for another day
For [?] more days
Lyrics submitted by demyelinated, edited by monkeyninja69
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