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"
Now I know this letter is right out of the blue
All I ever wanted was to talk to you
In [?], in a moving rented car
Heading to the nearest place that felt like far
"Honey," can I call you that in secret print?
Words will never hurt you if the motive's clear
All I want for you is joy and peaceful love
Who you get it from is not my main concern
It's like a fountain every time I think of you
Turning on the prose that would encircle you
Though I messed it up, I figured that I might
See you true and clearly in another life
As the rain falls slowly on this sliding roof
I'm inclined to tell you all about the truth
Years of wondering what you were thinking of
I've given into endless days of being a sloth
If I could have the energy to chase the day
I would end up chasing all the good away
Endless youth is wasted on the fallen kid
Down a tunnel off mistakes, they always fled
Who is there to pick up on the bloody mess
Who is there to mop their heads with tenderness
No one human, nobody is good enough
To envelope the human heart when life is rough
How can this be done? How can I make it through?
Teenage dreams do never what they're meant to do
Knock a door and listen to the wisdom speak
Leave your knife, your razor, and your make believe
Though the world is fucked according to the news
As we get you out of what you have to do
Though the world is fucked and swinging to the right
Doesn't get you out of what you have to do tonight
All I ever wanted was to talk to you
In [?], in a moving rented car
Heading to the nearest place that felt like far
"Honey," can I call you that in secret print?
Words will never hurt you if the motive's clear
All I want for you is joy and peaceful love
Who you get it from is not my main concern
It's like a fountain every time I think of you
Turning on the prose that would encircle you
Though I messed it up, I figured that I might
See you true and clearly in another life
As the rain falls slowly on this sliding roof
I'm inclined to tell you all about the truth
Years of wondering what you were thinking of
I've given into endless days of being a sloth
If I could have the energy to chase the day
I would end up chasing all the good away
Endless youth is wasted on the fallen kid
Down a tunnel off mistakes, they always fled
Who is there to pick up on the bloody mess
Who is there to mop their heads with tenderness
No one human, nobody is good enough
To envelope the human heart when life is rough
How can this be done? How can I make it through?
Teenage dreams do never what they're meant to do
Knock a door and listen to the wisdom speak
Leave your knife, your razor, and your make believe
Though the world is fucked according to the news
As we get you out of what you have to do
Though the world is fucked and swinging to the right
Doesn't get you out of what you have to do tonight
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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