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"
I thought I found someone
I thought I had something I could trust
I still can't believe what happened
It's not that you lied to us
It's not that our friendship was a front
It's just that I can't see the real in you
Yeah for years I was afraid
Now I can finally say
That I'm afraid that you've become
Everything that you had hated
I'm waiting
For this to blow away
How could I have been so blind
How could I have ignored so many signs
Especially when my friends warned me
About your deceptive side
And that your friendship was a lie
Yeah for years I was betrayed
Now I can finally say
That I'm afraid that you've become
Everything that you had hated
I'm waiting
For this to blow away
I've been working for
Something oh so fake
But it's never too late
To correct the faults
So many others made
I know you don't care about whats right or fair
I heard you say your future is looking so great
I've been working for
Something oh so fake
But I'm not working for you no more
I thought I had something I could trust
I still can't believe what happened
It's not that you lied to us
It's not that our friendship was a front
It's just that I can't see the real in you
Yeah for years I was afraid
Now I can finally say
That I'm afraid that you've become
Everything that you had hated
I'm waiting
For this to blow away
How could I have been so blind
How could I have ignored so many signs
Especially when my friends warned me
About your deceptive side
And that your friendship was a lie
Yeah for years I was betrayed
Now I can finally say
That I'm afraid that you've become
Everything that you had hated
I'm waiting
For this to blow away
I've been working for
Something oh so fake
But it's never too late
To correct the faults
So many others made
I know you don't care about whats right or fair
I heard you say your future is looking so great
I've been working for
Something oh so fake
But I'm not working for you no more
Lyrics submitted by startingsocostudent
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