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"
Oh, well I woke up in hell today
I woke up depressed and drained
But that's OK 'cause I promised
Not to hurt you again
And apparently I'm to blame
But apparently I've been framed
By a memory that
Won't help me when its happening
Out of the mind
Out of the soul
Out of the light
Out of control
Standing in the middle of yesterday
Where it all went wrong
Where we made the mistakes
I'm sorry for the things I forgot to say
But it won't be long
Until it will be okay
Well, I promised you I would I change
But I'm an asshole and I'm ashamed
And I'm upset 'cause
I betrayed everything that you gave
Will you ever let me explain
Can I beg you to let me stay
Don't quit me 'cause ill never let this happen
Out of the mind
Out of the soul
Out the light
Out of control
Standing in the middle of yesterday
Where it all went wrong
Where we made the mistakes
I'm sorry for the things I forgot to say
But it won't be long
And it'll be okay
Standing in the middle of yesterday
Where it all went wrong
Where we made the mistakes
I'm sorry for the things I forgot to say
But it won't be long
And it'll be okay
Standing in the middle of yesterday
Where it all went wrong
Where we made the mistakes
I'm sorry for the things I forgot to say
But it won't be long
And it'll be okay
Oh, I want to make it up to you
Make it up to you
I'm gonna make it up to you
Oh, oh
Oh, I want to make it up to you
Make it up to you
I'm gonna make it up to you
Oh, oh
I woke up depressed and drained
But that's OK 'cause I promised
Not to hurt you again
And apparently I'm to blame
But apparently I've been framed
By a memory that
Won't help me when its happening
Out of the mind
Out of the soul
Out of the light
Out of control
Standing in the middle of yesterday
Where it all went wrong
Where we made the mistakes
I'm sorry for the things I forgot to say
But it won't be long
Until it will be okay
Well, I promised you I would I change
But I'm an asshole and I'm ashamed
And I'm upset 'cause
I betrayed everything that you gave
Will you ever let me explain
Can I beg you to let me stay
Don't quit me 'cause ill never let this happen
Out of the mind
Out of the soul
Out the light
Out of control
Standing in the middle of yesterday
Where it all went wrong
Where we made the mistakes
I'm sorry for the things I forgot to say
But it won't be long
And it'll be okay
Standing in the middle of yesterday
Where it all went wrong
Where we made the mistakes
I'm sorry for the things I forgot to say
But it won't be long
And it'll be okay
Standing in the middle of yesterday
Where it all went wrong
Where we made the mistakes
I'm sorry for the things I forgot to say
But it won't be long
And it'll be okay
Oh, I want to make it up to you
Make it up to you
I'm gonna make it up to you
Oh, oh
Oh, I want to make it up to you
Make it up to you
I'm gonna make it up to you
Oh, oh
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