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 got my jammy jams i got my teddy bear
Don't wanna go to bed because
It's dark in there
But i must be brave soon i will be asleep
Its normal to be nervous in
Fact im kinda creeped
There is no boogey man no
Monster neath the mattress
Mom n dad are nearby don't
Cry no need for sadness
The closets filled with clothes
No creepy clowns around
No evil trees to tap the window
How i hate that sound
I wage battle with my shadows
But that's just imagination
Bodies need sleep see our dreams
Are really fueling stations
It's where we get the gasoline
That's keeps are bodies growing
Now do u know what i mean
Sleeps what keeps us crowin
Nothings more frightening than what's unknown
What's hiding in the darkness
When you're all alone
When u bellow for a beverage in
The middle of the night
U really need some reassurance
That everythin's alright and it is
Its time to go to bed now
It's time to get some sleep
So turn the light down
It's time to lay your head down
It's time to get some sleep
I'll see you in my dreams
I got a night light it keeps my mind right
When it's pitch black that's when chris craps
I need a llittle illumination keeps
The monsters at bay
If im seeing spooky shapes
And im feelin afraid
I got a flash light i can aim at intruders
Won't let the bugs bite
I got evasive maneuvers
So im prepared and protected
From infiltrating foes
Solar system on my ceiling with
Some sticky stars that glow
I will not toss and turn
And keep the family up
I got my blankie got my wubbie
Got a thumb to suck i will not kick the
Sheets no pillows overboard
I will just go to sleep just
Please don't close the door
Don't wanna go to bed because
It's dark in there
But i must be brave soon i will be asleep
Its normal to be nervous in
Fact im kinda creeped
There is no boogey man no
Monster neath the mattress
Mom n dad are nearby don't
Cry no need for sadness
The closets filled with clothes
No creepy clowns around
No evil trees to tap the window
How i hate that sound
I wage battle with my shadows
But that's just imagination
Bodies need sleep see our dreams
Are really fueling stations
It's where we get the gasoline
That's keeps are bodies growing
Now do u know what i mean
Sleeps what keeps us crowin
Nothings more frightening than what's unknown
What's hiding in the darkness
When you're all alone
When u bellow for a beverage in
The middle of the night
U really need some reassurance
That everythin's alright and it is
Its time to go to bed now
It's time to get some sleep
So turn the light down
It's time to lay your head down
It's time to get some sleep
I'll see you in my dreams
I got a night light it keeps my mind right
When it's pitch black that's when chris craps
I need a llittle illumination keeps
The monsters at bay
If im seeing spooky shapes
And im feelin afraid
I got a flash light i can aim at intruders
Won't let the bugs bite
I got evasive maneuvers
So im prepared and protected
From infiltrating foes
Solar system on my ceiling with
Some sticky stars that glow
I will not toss and turn
And keep the family up
I got my blankie got my wubbie
Got a thumb to suck i will not kick the
Sheets no pillows overboard
I will just go to sleep just
Please don't close the door
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Lullabye Lyrics as written by George David Weiss George Shearing
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Tratore, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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