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 on the highway, I'm walking 'cross America
Sweat stain in my blue suede shoes
Race wars, Star Wars, planet wars, mind wars
Tryna find ways to get to you
Always on the precipice, candy wish
So what would you prescribe?
'Cause every moment's something sacred, yeah
It's such a wild ride
Higher than I've ever been
Higher than I've ever been
Higher
Bullet holes
All you leave behind
Now I know
I see you cut and dried
I used to wish in symphonies
Higher than I've ever been
I used to wish in symphonies
Higher than I've ever been
Left in the rain to the sound of the sirens
Jet planes with the battle blues
Lifeblood, bad blood, my blood, your blood
The state of danger in this human zoo
Just caught in the wheels of machinery
Fragments to construct a core, yeah
Wish I could sleep more easily
Are you the one I've been waiting for?
Higher than I've ever been
Higher than I've ever been
Higher
Bullet holes
All you leave behind
Now I know
I see you cut and dried
I used to wish in symphonies
Higher than I've ever been
I used to wish, I used to wish in symphonies
Higher than I've ever been
They closed our path through deserted streets
Downtown ghosts shuffling in their feet
I will never stop fighting for you
Never stop fighting
Bullet holes
All you leave behind
Now I know
I see you cut and dried
Bullet holes
I thought I was inside
I used to wish, I used to wish in symphonies
Higher than I've ever been
Sweat stain in my blue suede shoes
Race wars, Star Wars, planet wars, mind wars
Tryna find ways to get to you
Always on the precipice, candy wish
So what would you prescribe?
'Cause every moment's something sacred, yeah
It's such a wild ride
Higher than I've ever been
Higher than I've ever been
Higher
Bullet holes
All you leave behind
Now I know
I see you cut and dried
I used to wish in symphonies
Higher than I've ever been
I used to wish in symphonies
Higher than I've ever been
Left in the rain to the sound of the sirens
Jet planes with the battle blues
Lifeblood, bad blood, my blood, your blood
The state of danger in this human zoo
Just caught in the wheels of machinery
Fragments to construct a core, yeah
Wish I could sleep more easily
Are you the one I've been waiting for?
Higher than I've ever been
Higher than I've ever been
Higher
Bullet holes
All you leave behind
Now I know
I see you cut and dried
I used to wish in symphonies
Higher than I've ever been
I used to wish, I used to wish in symphonies
Higher than I've ever been
They closed our path through deserted streets
Downtown ghosts shuffling in their feet
I will never stop fighting for you
Never stop fighting
Bullet holes
All you leave behind
Now I know
I see you cut and dried
Bullet holes
I thought I was inside
I used to wish, I used to wish in symphonies
Higher than I've ever been
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