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"
Just like the children's sandpit
Just like the wild wild west
At random choose a target
It's not enough to be second best
So now you want to fight them
The weaker one is always wrong
Yeah now you want to fight them
A real man's gotta show the world he's strong
Stuck up, abuse of power
It's all part of a leader's role
"We only take what's ours"
A slick line to stay in control
Hate breeds more hate its easy to understand
To retaliate and to be a true macho man
goes hand in hand
So show the world you're strong
The weaker one is wrong
And I know it won't take long
Until they're dead and gone
Just like the wild wild west
At random choose a target
It's not enough to be second best
So now you want to fight them
The weaker one is always wrong
Yeah now you want to fight them
A real man's gotta show the world he's strong
Stuck up, abuse of power
It's all part of a leader's role
"We only take what's ours"
A slick line to stay in control
Hate breeds more hate its easy to understand
To retaliate and to be a true macho man
goes hand in hand
So show the world you're strong
The weaker one is wrong
And I know it won't take long
Until they're dead and gone
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