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"
It is your new best friend, new eye in your private den
And you can find the world inside it every day
They know what you did today, hear everything you say
And when they send you mail,
They know where you will go sometime next day
They know your life, they have a file about you
They built your life, so they
Know what you like and know what you yearn
But they don't know a thing about me
I'm not that easy, I'm blank file in their memory
Caught in the web again, inside your private den
Where you can go to moon
Or meet some people you will never see
You are a file in there, money in an open fair
You're a slave among the slaves, waiting for Y2K with a
Fear
They know your life, they have a file about you
They built your life, so they
Know what you like and know what you yearn
But they don't know a thing about me
I'm not that easy, I'm blank file in their memory
Still they try to take over, control my life,
But no one can do it but me
I'm not that easy, I'm blank file in their memory
Know what you like and know what you yearn
But they don't know a thing about me
I'm not that easy, I'm blank file in their memory
I am waiting, hoping and praying
To see, how this, will end, when they go down
How can it be, that you cannot see
What they are doing with thee
You are a life, new file in their memory, now they
Know what you like and know what you yearn
But they don't know a thing about me
I'm not that easy, I'm blank file in their memory
How can it be, that you cannot see
What they are doing with thee
Spending your time, living your life
Inside their machines there is one empty file, it is me
And you can find the world inside it every day
They know what you did today, hear everything you say
And when they send you mail,
They know where you will go sometime next day
They know your life, they have a file about you
They built your life, so they
Know what you like and know what you yearn
But they don't know a thing about me
I'm not that easy, I'm blank file in their memory
Caught in the web again, inside your private den
Where you can go to moon
Or meet some people you will never see
You are a file in there, money in an open fair
You're a slave among the slaves, waiting for Y2K with a
Fear
They know your life, they have a file about you
They built your life, so they
Know what you like and know what you yearn
But they don't know a thing about me
I'm not that easy, I'm blank file in their memory
Still they try to take over, control my life,
But no one can do it but me
I'm not that easy, I'm blank file in their memory
Know what you like and know what you yearn
But they don't know a thing about me
I'm not that easy, I'm blank file in their memory
I am waiting, hoping and praying
To see, how this, will end, when they go down
How can it be, that you cannot see
What they are doing with thee
You are a life, new file in their memory, now they
Know what you like and know what you yearn
But they don't know a thing about me
I'm not that easy, I'm blank file in their memory
How can it be, that you cannot see
What they are doing with thee
Spending your time, living your life
Inside their machines there is one empty file, it is me
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There's actually nothing in the song about Y2K, and you would know that if you listened to the song youtube.com/watch