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"
You walked all over
In your blunder stones
In your own road movie
With your one armed man
Gonna make it to the problem page
Troubleshoot your life
Gonna make it to the problem page
Need some time and space
Just to find yourself
I hope you find yourself
In a low place like home
Low place like home
You talked it over
From your bedroom throne
Making sense of nothing
With your one armed man
Read your future in the magazine
Search the stars for clues
Read your future in the magazine
Tells you what to lose
Just to find yourself
I hope you find yourself
In a low place like home
Low place like home
I hope you find yourself
In a low place like home
You fall all over
With your small town heels
Catching hold of nothing
Like your one armed man
Treat your life like a tragedy
Self-inflict abuse
Treat your life like a tragedy
Precious else to choose
Crucify yourself
I'll bet you find yourself
In a low place like home
Low place like home
Low place like home
Low place like home
Crucify yourself
I'll bet you find yourself
In a low place like home
I'll bet you find yourself
I'll bet you find yourself
I'll bet you find yourself
In a low place like home
Low place like home
Crucify yourself
In a low place like home
I hope you find yourself
I hope you find yourself
I hope you find yourself
I hope you find yourself
In your blunder stones
In your own road movie
With your one armed man
Gonna make it to the problem page
Troubleshoot your life
Gonna make it to the problem page
Need some time and space
Just to find yourself
I hope you find yourself
In a low place like home
Low place like home
You talked it over
From your bedroom throne
Making sense of nothing
With your one armed man
Read your future in the magazine
Search the stars for clues
Read your future in the magazine
Tells you what to lose
Just to find yourself
I hope you find yourself
In a low place like home
Low place like home
I hope you find yourself
In a low place like home
You fall all over
With your small town heels
Catching hold of nothing
Like your one armed man
Treat your life like a tragedy
Self-inflict abuse
Treat your life like a tragedy
Precious else to choose
Crucify yourself
I'll bet you find yourself
In a low place like home
Low place like home
Low place like home
Low place like home
Crucify yourself
I'll bet you find yourself
In a low place like home
I'll bet you find yourself
I'll bet you find yourself
I'll bet you find yourself
In a low place like home
Low place like home
Crucify yourself
In a low place like home
I hope you find yourself
I hope you find yourself
I hope you find yourself
I hope you find yourself
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