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'm cornered in fire so break out the secrets
I hope you know that you were worth it all along
I'm tired, you're angry, and everyone looks blurry
I love you, I'm leaving; so long
Hey, little one
I'm so scared of what this could have been
I know that today I lost my only friend
My little one
The places I took you, they seem so fucking empty
I have trouble going anywhere at all
Especially my own bedroom
And it stays awake to haunt me
So passed out, black out, drunk in another bathroom stall
Hey, little one
I'm so scared of what this could have been
I know that today I lost my only friend
How long must I justify my pain through these songs?
How long, how long?
Hey, little one
I'm so scared of what this could have been
I know that today I lost my only little one (my little one)
I'm so scared of what this could have been
I know that today I lost my only friend
How long must I talk about my pain in these songs?
How long?
It's raining, it's sunny
It doesn't make a difference
I don't care about anything at all
It's raining, it's sunny
It doesn't make a difference
I don't care about anything at all
I hope you know that you were worth it all along
I'm tired, you're angry, and everyone looks blurry
I love you, I'm leaving; so long
Hey, little one
I'm so scared of what this could have been
I know that today I lost my only friend
My little one
The places I took you, they seem so fucking empty
I have trouble going anywhere at all
Especially my own bedroom
And it stays awake to haunt me
So passed out, black out, drunk in another bathroom stall
Hey, little one
I'm so scared of what this could have been
I know that today I lost my only friend
How long must I justify my pain through these songs?
How long, how long?
Hey, little one
I'm so scared of what this could have been
I know that today I lost my only little one (my little one)
I'm so scared of what this could have been
I know that today I lost my only friend
How long must I talk about my pain in these songs?
How long?
It's raining, it's sunny
It doesn't make a difference
I don't care about anything at all
It's raining, it's sunny
It doesn't make a difference
I don't care about anything at all
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Little One Lyrics as written by Richard Charles Jr. Meyer John Michael Stevens
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I think it's about a guy kicking himself for being the cause of a painful heartbreak
I get the feeling he felt the relationship was perfect and got caught up in something he himself only gained anything from, gambling, cheating, addiction...etc
after realizing he sabotaged his true love and carelessly lost the one chance he had to share a life together, he know feels anything in the days to come is hopeless because he had her!, everything he ever dreamed of! He had it right there , hand in hand and he let it all slip away over something meaningless that meant nothing to him
@mikeyj420 \r\n\r\nIn an interview with Billboard the artist describes this exact thing.\r\n\r\nWhich recalls a moment in Stevens’ life where he “fell madly in love” with a girl he met, but sabotaged the relationship. “You want to have love but you’re so wrapped up in what it is you’re doing,” he continues. “It’s a f—king heartbreak song, but a very real one and it’s very close to my heart.”\r\n\r[billboard.com/music/rock/highly-suspect-little-one-new-song-listen-7557729/](http://nhttps://www.billboard.com/music/rock/highly-suspect-little-one-new-song-listen-7557729/)