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 had a dream, I was broke
No diamonds and no gold
Most saddest story ever told, whoa
And I had a dream, I was a fool
No mansion or no pool
I woke up, then I screamed, "Thank God it was just a dream"
Huh, huh, yeah, ooh
I live the American dream, huh
Foreign everything, huh
I turn my scariest dreams, uh, into to fairy wings
I don't want beef, I just want green, that's vegetarian dreams
Dream, dream, yeah
I'm havin' a dream, where I'm fallin', yeah
I land in the purplest water, yeah
I'll probably surface tomorrow, yeah
Dream of a world with new order, yeah
It spin like the perfect revolver, yeah
I dreamt I died and went to heaven and came back 'cause I got work in the morning, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Sleep tight, I daydream all night
Keep my head up right
Don't let the fed bugs bite
One night I done sleep in some good pussy and I woke up like "Oh shit"
Had a dream that I was broke, I ain't sleep with that same hoe since
I had a dream, I was broke
No diamonds and no gold (yeah)
Most saddest story ever told, whoa
And I had a dream, I was a fool (yeah, yeah)
No mansion or no pool (no)
I woke up, then I screamed, "Thank God it was just a dream"
We in another dimension (yeah)
She say I'm the man of her dreams (yeah)
So after I fuck her, I pinch her (yeah)
She had the wettest of dreams (yeah)
She gon' wake up in a swimsuit (yeah)
They tryna sell me some dreams
Way too fuckin' expensive (yeah)
I been sippin' all this lean, I swear my eyes are dreamy
In my dream and I wake up, see all these fuckin' Weezys
Mister Sandman, all your sand about to turn to cement (yeah)
California weed got me California dreamin' (yeah)
I'm your worst nightmare
I Just wanna spend it all before I go to sleep (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Broke my heart and give it too you wrapped in 'chilla mink (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Waking up on a island, some OD's and violence (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Roses with no thorns
I had a dream (I had a dream), I was broke
No diamonds and not gold (no diamonds)
Most saddest story ever told, whoa (whoa)
And I had a dream (I had a dream), I was a fool
No mansion or no pool (no, oh)
I woke up, then I screamed, "Thank God it was just a dream"
Thank God it was just a dream
Thank God it was just a dream, yeah
Thank God it was just a dream
Thank God it was just a dream
Woke up, then I screamed
Thank God it was just a dream
I Just wanna spend it all before I go to sleep
Broke my heart and give it too you wrapped in 'chilla mink
Woke up on islands, OD's and violence
Roses with no thorns (huh, huh, huh, huh)
I just woke up with some new tattoos (yeah, yeah)
I just woke up next to who is you and you and you
Got the groupie blue, whoop de woo, hooty hoo
Make them dreams come true and then I put 'em back on snooze
Had a dream, I was a fool
No mansion or no pool (yeah, yeah)
I woke up and I screamed
No diamonds and no gold
Most saddest story ever told, whoa
And I had a dream, I was a fool
No mansion or no pool
I woke up, then I screamed, "Thank God it was just a dream"
Huh, huh, yeah, ooh
I live the American dream, huh
Foreign everything, huh
I turn my scariest dreams, uh, into to fairy wings
I don't want beef, I just want green, that's vegetarian dreams
Dream, dream, yeah
I'm havin' a dream, where I'm fallin', yeah
I land in the purplest water, yeah
I'll probably surface tomorrow, yeah
Dream of a world with new order, yeah
It spin like the perfect revolver, yeah
I dreamt I died and went to heaven and came back 'cause I got work in the morning, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Sleep tight, I daydream all night
Keep my head up right
Don't let the fed bugs bite
One night I done sleep in some good pussy and I woke up like "Oh shit"
Had a dream that I was broke, I ain't sleep with that same hoe since
I had a dream, I was broke
No diamonds and no gold (yeah)
Most saddest story ever told, whoa
And I had a dream, I was a fool (yeah, yeah)
No mansion or no pool (no)
I woke up, then I screamed, "Thank God it was just a dream"
We in another dimension (yeah)
She say I'm the man of her dreams (yeah)
So after I fuck her, I pinch her (yeah)
She had the wettest of dreams (yeah)
She gon' wake up in a swimsuit (yeah)
They tryna sell me some dreams
Way too fuckin' expensive (yeah)
I been sippin' all this lean, I swear my eyes are dreamy
In my dream and I wake up, see all these fuckin' Weezys
Mister Sandman, all your sand about to turn to cement (yeah)
California weed got me California dreamin' (yeah)
I'm your worst nightmare
I Just wanna spend it all before I go to sleep (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Broke my heart and give it too you wrapped in 'chilla mink (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Waking up on a island, some OD's and violence (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Roses with no thorns
I had a dream (I had a dream), I was broke
No diamonds and not gold (no diamonds)
Most saddest story ever told, whoa (whoa)
And I had a dream (I had a dream), I was a fool
No mansion or no pool (no, oh)
I woke up, then I screamed, "Thank God it was just a dream"
Thank God it was just a dream
Thank God it was just a dream, yeah
Thank God it was just a dream
Thank God it was just a dream
Woke up, then I screamed
Thank God it was just a dream
I Just wanna spend it all before I go to sleep
Broke my heart and give it too you wrapped in 'chilla mink
Woke up on islands, OD's and violence
Roses with no thorns (huh, huh, huh, huh)
I just woke up with some new tattoos (yeah, yeah)
I just woke up next to who is you and you and you
Got the groupie blue, whoop de woo, hooty hoo
Make them dreams come true and then I put 'em back on snooze
Had a dream, I was a fool
No mansion or no pool (yeah, yeah)
I woke up and I screamed
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Dreams Lyrics as written by Alexander Joseph Delicata Aaron Zuckerman
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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