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 here all alone
I was fine on my own
Then you came, asked my name
Why you came?
Go back home
I don’t need your empty words
I don’t need you, to be heard
I don’t want to be your friend
I don’t need you to hold my hand
I won’t listen to what you say
I know many like you, baby
Sweet talk trying to make me stay
But I’m not in the mood to play
No
No
You’re still here, by my side
Even though I told you goodbye
C’mon, honey don’t waste your time
Nothing will happen between us tonight
I’m not sorry, I know your kind
I’ve heard enough, I’m no longer blind
I don’t need your empty words
I don’t need you, to be heard
I don’t want to be your friend
I don’t need you to hold my hand
I won’t listen to what you say
I know many like you, baby
Sweet talk trying to make me stay
But I’m not in the mood to play
No
No
You’re still here, by my side
Even though I told you goodbye
C’mon, honey don’t waste your time
Nothing will happen between us tonight
Why you came?
Why you came?
Why you came?
Go back home
Why you came?
Why you came?
Why you came?
Go back home
Oh, no
No no
Oh, yeah
If you want me to repeat
I’ll do it as you please
Rejection in your ear
Is the only thing you’ll hear
No
I don’t need your empty words
I don’t need you, to be heard
I don’t want to be your friend
I don’t need you to hold my hand
I won’t listen to what you say
I know many like you, baby
Sweet talk trying to make me stay
But I’m not in the mood to play
I was fine on my own
Then you came, asked my name
Why you came?
Go back home
I don’t need your empty words
I don’t need you, to be heard
I don’t want to be your friend
I don’t need you to hold my hand
I won’t listen to what you say
I know many like you, baby
Sweet talk trying to make me stay
But I’m not in the mood to play
No
No
You’re still here, by my side
Even though I told you goodbye
C’mon, honey don’t waste your time
Nothing will happen between us tonight
I’m not sorry, I know your kind
I’ve heard enough, I’m no longer blind
I don’t need your empty words
I don’t need you, to be heard
I don’t want to be your friend
I don’t need you to hold my hand
I won’t listen to what you say
I know many like you, baby
Sweet talk trying to make me stay
But I’m not in the mood to play
No
No
You’re still here, by my side
Even though I told you goodbye
C’mon, honey don’t waste your time
Nothing will happen between us tonight
Why you came?
Why you came?
Why you came?
Go back home
Why you came?
Why you came?
Why you came?
Go back home
Oh, no
No no
Oh, yeah
If you want me to repeat
I’ll do it as you please
Rejection in your ear
Is the only thing you’ll hear
No
I don’t need your empty words
I don’t need you, to be heard
I don’t want to be your friend
I don’t need you to hold my hand
I won’t listen to what you say
I know many like you, baby
Sweet talk trying to make me stay
But I’m not in the mood to play
Lyrics submitted by heitor1099
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