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"
You're losing me
Stuck inside a loop and though you always disagree
There's nothing I can do
So I just
Let go and let you suffocate
'Cause you know, you know that you're too late
This I swear to you no matter what you do
I'm gone for good (for good)
You've always known that I never show
Where my head's at til it's gone
You've always said you're just a thread
Just sew me up and I'll say
Take my breath away, I'm okay
Good to know that you're still fading
I've bled myself for this
Paid in full, but now I'm cashing out
When it's face to face you just change
Hurts to see me, yeah, you hate it
You failed to see the strength in me
But now you're finding out
You see my face
Blank and empty, just waiting to leave this place
I should have known
To cut this off and just suffer as I grow
So let go, I know it's hard to take
And you know, you know what's on my plate
This I swear to you no matter what you do
I'm gone for good
Take my breath away, I'm okay
Good to know that you're still fading
I've bled myself for this
Paid in full, but now I'm cashing out
When it's face to face you just change
Hurts to see me, yeah, you hate it
You failed to see the strength in me
But now you're finding out
And if you hurt yourself to prove something else
Know I hardly remember your face
There's nothing left to prove, feel like I barely knew
This demon I thought would stay in one place
But I'm gone
Take my breath away, I'm okay
Good to know that you're still fading
You failed to see the strength in me
But now you're finding out
When it's face to face you just change
Hurts to see me, yeah, you hate it
You failed to see the strength in me
But now you're finding out
The strength in me
But now you're finding out
Stuck inside a loop and though you always disagree
There's nothing I can do
So I just
Let go and let you suffocate
'Cause you know, you know that you're too late
This I swear to you no matter what you do
I'm gone for good (for good)
You've always known that I never show
Where my head's at til it's gone
You've always said you're just a thread
Just sew me up and I'll say
Take my breath away, I'm okay
Good to know that you're still fading
I've bled myself for this
Paid in full, but now I'm cashing out
When it's face to face you just change
Hurts to see me, yeah, you hate it
You failed to see the strength in me
But now you're finding out
You see my face
Blank and empty, just waiting to leave this place
I should have known
To cut this off and just suffer as I grow
So let go, I know it's hard to take
And you know, you know what's on my plate
This I swear to you no matter what you do
I'm gone for good
Take my breath away, I'm okay
Good to know that you're still fading
I've bled myself for this
Paid in full, but now I'm cashing out
When it's face to face you just change
Hurts to see me, yeah, you hate it
You failed to see the strength in me
But now you're finding out
And if you hurt yourself to prove something else
Know I hardly remember your face
There's nothing left to prove, feel like I barely knew
This demon I thought would stay in one place
But I'm gone
Take my breath away, I'm okay
Good to know that you're still fading
You failed to see the strength in me
But now you're finding out
When it's face to face you just change
Hurts to see me, yeah, you hate it
You failed to see the strength in me
But now you're finding out
The strength in me
But now you're finding out
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
PAID IN FULL Lyrics as written by Landon Tewers Josh Childress
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