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"
They didn't ask him to leave when the bell rung
Drinking whiskey much older than I am
I sat and I watched him watching his watch
And he turned round and asked me the time
The waitress wandered across from the kitchen
She was ever so slightly singing
A song he once knew, such a beautiful tune
And he wished that he knew it once more
He asked me
"Where do you go when your mind doesn't work with your soul?
I had memories made, now I can't put a face to a name."
"Do you know who I am?
Where did I go? And where have I been?
Do you know who I am?
All that I've loved and all that I've seen seems to go"
There she sat with her tea in the garden
Didn't remember why we were arguing
The point had been lost, she forgot where it was
So she told me the story again
She had told me to look in the kitchen
She said some of her things had gone missing
They all had been stored where she kept them before
It was only her mind that had changed
She asked me
"Where do you go when your mind doesn't work with your soul?
I had memories made, now I can't put a face to a name."
"Do you know who I am?
Where did I go? And where have I been?
Do you know who I am?
All that I've loved and all that I've seen seems to go"
Every breeze running through every tree
And every fallen leaf, that's you my friend
I know the world will change
But you will know my name, when I see you again
Do you know who I am?
Where did I go? And where have I been?
Do you know who I am?
All that I've loved and all that I've seen seems to go
Drinking whiskey much older than I am
I sat and I watched him watching his watch
And he turned round and asked me the time
The waitress wandered across from the kitchen
She was ever so slightly singing
A song he once knew, such a beautiful tune
And he wished that he knew it once more
He asked me
"Where do you go when your mind doesn't work with your soul?
I had memories made, now I can't put a face to a name."
"Do you know who I am?
Where did I go? And where have I been?
Do you know who I am?
All that I've loved and all that I've seen seems to go"
There she sat with her tea in the garden
Didn't remember why we were arguing
The point had been lost, she forgot where it was
So she told me the story again
She had told me to look in the kitchen
She said some of her things had gone missing
They all had been stored where she kept them before
It was only her mind that had changed
She asked me
"Where do you go when your mind doesn't work with your soul?
I had memories made, now I can't put a face to a name."
"Do you know who I am?
Where did I go? And where have I been?
Do you know who I am?
All that I've loved and all that I've seen seems to go"
Every breeze running through every tree
And every fallen leaf, that's you my friend
I know the world will change
But you will know my name, when I see you again
Do you know who I am?
Where did I go? And where have I been?
Do you know who I am?
All that I've loved and all that I've seen seems to go
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