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"
Yesterday, I got so old
I felt like I could die
Yesterday, I got so old
It made me want to cry
Go on, go on, just walk away
Go on, go on, your choice is made
Go on, go on, and disappear
Go on, go on, away from here
And I know I was wrong when I said it was true
That it couldn't be me and be her in between
Without you
Without you
Yesterday, I got so scared
I shivered like a child
Yesterday, away from you
It froze me deep inside
Come back, come back, don't walk away
Come back, come back, come back today
Come back, come back, why can't you see?
Come back, come back, come back to me
And I know I was wrong when I said it was true
That it couldn't be me and be her in between
Without you
Without you
Without you
Without you
Without you
Without you
Without you
Without you
I felt like I could die
Yesterday, I got so old
It made me want to cry
Go on, go on, just walk away
Go on, go on, your choice is made
Go on, go on, and disappear
Go on, go on, away from here
And I know I was wrong when I said it was true
That it couldn't be me and be her in between
Without you
Without you
Yesterday, I got so scared
I shivered like a child
Yesterday, away from you
It froze me deep inside
Come back, come back, don't walk away
Come back, come back, come back today
Come back, come back, why can't you see?
Come back, come back, come back to me
And I know I was wrong when I said it was true
That it couldn't be me and be her in between
Without you
Without you
Without you
Without you
Without you
Without you
Without you
Without you
Lyrics submitted by oofus, edited by Mellow_Harsher
In Between Days Lyrics as written by Robert James Smith
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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