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 just living for the moment
Flying high on paper planes but they don't hold up
Make mistakes but I'll be damned if I don't own them
It's a trip and I don't wanna get sober, don't wanna get sober
Living fast in a daydream
They can try but I'll be dead before they change me
'Cause my guitar's the only one that ever paid me
It's a trip and I'll be loving every single minute
As long as I can say I did it
My way, my way
My way, my way
Just go and get it
My way
I'll know I did it
My way
I'll say I did it
My way, my way
My way, my way
I won't regret it
No way
I'll know I did it
My way, my way
(I can say I did it)
(I can say I did it)
(I can say I did it)
(As long as I can say I did it, say I did it)
Ain't saying I never get hopeless
And things get crazy when it all gets out of focus
On the days when we're together, that's a bonus
My darling, we're just living for the moment, living for the moment
Will you love me till you leave, yeah?
Yeah, I never wanna stop you going somewhere
Go ahead and live the way you wanna, I will always love ya
You know that your heart is in it
As long as you can say I did it
My way, my way
My way, my way
Just go and get it
My way
I'll know I did it
My way
I say I did it
My way, my way
My way, my way
I won't regret it
No way
I'll know I did it
My way, my way
(I can say I did it)
(I can say I did it)
(I can say I did it)
(As long as I can say I did it, say I did it)
We only get one life, so make this life beautiful
One chance to make it worthwhile
Just be alive, the story could be glorious
Beginning to the finish, long as I can say I did it
My way, my way
My way, my way
Just go and get it
My way
I'll know I did it
My way
I say I did it
My way, my way
My way, my way
I won't regret it
No way
I'll know I did it
My way, my way
(I can say I did it)
(I can say I did it)
(I can say I did it)
(As long as I can say I did it, say I did it)
My way, my way, my way, my way
My way, my way, my way, my way
My way, my way, my way, my way
(As long as I can say I did it)
My way, my way
My way, my way
Just go and get it
I'll know I did it
My way
I say I did it
My way, my way
My way, my way
I won't regret it
No way
I'll know I did it
My way, my way
Flying high on paper planes but they don't hold up
Make mistakes but I'll be damned if I don't own them
It's a trip and I don't wanna get sober, don't wanna get sober
Living fast in a daydream
They can try but I'll be dead before they change me
'Cause my guitar's the only one that ever paid me
It's a trip and I'll be loving every single minute
As long as I can say I did it
My way, my way
My way, my way
Just go and get it
My way
I'll know I did it
My way
I'll say I did it
My way, my way
My way, my way
I won't regret it
No way
I'll know I did it
My way, my way
(I can say I did it)
(I can say I did it)
(I can say I did it)
(As long as I can say I did it, say I did it)
Ain't saying I never get hopeless
And things get crazy when it all gets out of focus
On the days when we're together, that's a bonus
My darling, we're just living for the moment, living for the moment
Will you love me till you leave, yeah?
Yeah, I never wanna stop you going somewhere
Go ahead and live the way you wanna, I will always love ya
You know that your heart is in it
As long as you can say I did it
My way, my way
My way, my way
Just go and get it
My way
I'll know I did it
My way
I say I did it
My way, my way
My way, my way
I won't regret it
No way
I'll know I did it
My way, my way
(I can say I did it)
(I can say I did it)
(I can say I did it)
(As long as I can say I did it, say I did it)
We only get one life, so make this life beautiful
One chance to make it worthwhile
Just be alive, the story could be glorious
Beginning to the finish, long as I can say I did it
My way, my way
My way, my way
Just go and get it
My way
I'll know I did it
My way
I say I did it
My way, my way
My way, my way
I won't regret it
No way
I'll know I did it
My way, my way
(I can say I did it)
(I can say I did it)
(I can say I did it)
(As long as I can say I did it, say I did it)
My way, my way, my way, my way
My way, my way, my way, my way
My way, my way, my way, my way
(As long as I can say I did it)
My way, my way
My way, my way
Just go and get it
I'll know I did it
My way
I say I did it
My way, my way
My way, my way
I won't regret it
No way
I'll know I did it
My way, my way
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