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 wasn't broken 'til you tried to fix me
I wasn't lonely 'til you came around
It's all magic 'til you see the trick, babe
It was eye-to-eye to word-of-mouth
We had a future 'til you made it history
I was yours until you let me down
I'd rather see love as an optimistic
Than know the things that I know now
The casualty of love is the price of being free
You said this is something that we both need
So how do you feel 'cause I feel
Hollow
This hurts so loud
Further than down
You left me
Hollow
Are you happy now?
I hope you're happy now
(I feel, I feel, I feel)
(I feel, I feel, I feel)
We never struggled for a conversation
'Til you couldn't find the words to say
Now I'm a comma in your explanation
Of your learning curves and your mistakes
They say that it should be a celebration
But I'm still crying in a cubicle
I wish you felt the way you used to
I wish you'd made me feel beautiful
You're the one that got away and you got away with a lot
They say it's better to have loved even if you lost
But I can tell you it's not, 'cause I feel
Hollow
This hurts so loud
Further than down
You left me
Hollow
Are you happy now?
I hope you're happy now
Oh, we lit up the night
Heart to heart, put the world to rights and I
I'm here again
Now you're somebody else, with somebody else
You swore was not your type
I just miss my friend
And I feel
Hollow
Hollow
I just feel
Hollow
This hurts so loud
Further than down
You left me
Hollow
Are you happy now?
I hope you're happy now
I wasn't lonely 'til you came around
It's all magic 'til you see the trick, babe
It was eye-to-eye to word-of-mouth
We had a future 'til you made it history
I was yours until you let me down
I'd rather see love as an optimistic
Than know the things that I know now
The casualty of love is the price of being free
You said this is something that we both need
So how do you feel 'cause I feel
Hollow
This hurts so loud
Further than down
You left me
Hollow
Are you happy now?
I hope you're happy now
(I feel, I feel, I feel)
(I feel, I feel, I feel)
We never struggled for a conversation
'Til you couldn't find the words to say
Now I'm a comma in your explanation
Of your learning curves and your mistakes
They say that it should be a celebration
But I'm still crying in a cubicle
I wish you felt the way you used to
I wish you'd made me feel beautiful
You're the one that got away and you got away with a lot
They say it's better to have loved even if you lost
But I can tell you it's not, 'cause I feel
Hollow
This hurts so loud
Further than down
You left me
Hollow
Are you happy now?
I hope you're happy now
Oh, we lit up the night
Heart to heart, put the world to rights and I
I'm here again
Now you're somebody else, with somebody else
You swore was not your type
I just miss my friend
And I feel
Hollow
Hollow
I just feel
Hollow
This hurts so loud
Further than down
You left me
Hollow
Are you happy now?
I hope you're happy now
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