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"
Back then I can still remember when
We were young and the fun would never end
Snowbanks would alighn the fence
While the whole world was ours
Icecream we'd dream of candybars
Gum snacks came in packs of hockey cards
No plan had a sircumstance
So the whole world was ours
They said come out with your hads behinde your head
Call your parents on the phone and now your dead
Stop laughing cause bad shit happens
But we all seem to pull threw when
Hands tight gripping handles on your bike you can ride but Your life depends on the guy behinde you catching up
Dont look back at him
Outside still looking in on the days that we once shared
Still looking on and there you were
Bat in hand dont trust the man
Dont provoke him anymore
The perfect like that we once had
until we talked about Brads dad
Lets talk about Brads dad
Lets talk about Bill
One day all of us will tell the kids
Disregard everything remember this
Never forget all the memories
When the whole world was ours
They think your trying to make him
Get pissed off and you hate him
Just for jokes whats the worst he could do to you
Outside still looking in on the days that we once shared
Still looking on and there you were
Lets talk about Brads dad
Lets talk about Bill
We were young and the fun would never end
Snowbanks would alighn the fence
While the whole world was ours
Icecream we'd dream of candybars
Gum snacks came in packs of hockey cards
No plan had a sircumstance
So the whole world was ours
They said come out with your hads behinde your head
Call your parents on the phone and now your dead
Stop laughing cause bad shit happens
But we all seem to pull threw when
Hands tight gripping handles on your bike you can ride but Your life depends on the guy behinde you catching up
Dont look back at him
Outside still looking in on the days that we once shared
Still looking on and there you were
Bat in hand dont trust the man
Dont provoke him anymore
The perfect like that we once had
until we talked about Brads dad
Lets talk about Brads dad
Lets talk about Bill
One day all of us will tell the kids
Disregard everything remember this
Never forget all the memories
When the whole world was ours
They think your trying to make him
Get pissed off and you hate him
Just for jokes whats the worst he could do to you
Outside still looking in on the days that we once shared
Still looking on and there you were
Lets talk about Brads dad
Lets talk about Bill
Lyrics submitted by Likewise
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