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"
Days of the conflicts you've been in
Traces of conscience you don't want to hear
You hear it now
You listen, hear a sound
You missed it
Taken by conscience or taken by guilt
You live in the problems you decided to build
You hear it now
You listen and hear a sound that can't be still
The blame is found, you got it
Rode when she was new
You're used for glue
Yeah
Dazed for time you were into
Praise from the crowd that you wanted to fool
You call them now, they're waiting
To hear a sound that can't be still
The blame is found, you got it
Rode when she was new but wasn't told when she was through
Yeah
Listen to a sound that can't be still
The blame is found, you got it
Rode when she was new but wasn't told when she was through
Yeah
Traces of conscience you don't want to hear
You hear it now
You listen, hear a sound
You missed it
Taken by conscience or taken by guilt
You live in the problems you decided to build
You hear it now
You listen and hear a sound that can't be still
The blame is found, you got it
Rode when she was new
You're used for glue
Yeah
Dazed for time you were into
Praise from the crowd that you wanted to fool
You call them now, they're waiting
To hear a sound that can't be still
The blame is found, you got it
Rode when she was new but wasn't told when she was through
Yeah
Listen to a sound that can't be still
The blame is found, you got it
Rode when she was new but wasn't told when she was through
Yeah
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I love this song. i think its about feeling guilty for something that you could help, or something that wasn't your fault. And you're trying to tell yourself that its not your fault, but you still feel really guilty. i don't know how that links with the video though (a girl and a boy getting together at a party) so i'm probably fantastically wrong. oh well...