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"
When we look back at it all as I know we will
You and me, wide eyed
I wonder
Will we really remember how it feels to be this alive?
And I know we have to go
I realize we only get to stay so long
Always have to go back to real lives
Where we belong
And I know we have to go
I realize we only get to stay so long
Always have to go back to real lives
Where we belong
When we think back to all this and I'm sure we will
Me and you, here and now
Will we forget the way it really is
Why it feels like this and how?
And we always have to go I realize
We always have to say goodbye
Always have to go back to real lives
But realizations are the reason why
We want to live another life
We want to feel another time
Another time
Yeah another time
To feel another time
When we look back at it all as I know we will
You and me, wide eyed
I wonder
Will we really remember how it feels to be this alive?
And I know we have to go
I realize we always have to turn away
Always have to go back to real lives
But real lives are why we stay
For another dream
Another day
For another world
Another way
For another way
One last time before it's over
One last time before the end
One last time before it's time to go again
You and me, wide eyed
I wonder
Will we really remember how it feels to be this alive?
And I know we have to go
I realize we only get to stay so long
Always have to go back to real lives
Where we belong
And I know we have to go
I realize we only get to stay so long
Always have to go back to real lives
Where we belong
When we think back to all this and I'm sure we will
Me and you, here and now
Will we forget the way it really is
Why it feels like this and how?
And we always have to go I realize
We always have to say goodbye
Always have to go back to real lives
But realizations are the reason why
We want to live another life
We want to feel another time
Another time
Yeah another time
To feel another time
When we look back at it all as I know we will
You and me, wide eyed
I wonder
Will we really remember how it feels to be this alive?
And I know we have to go
I realize we always have to turn away
Always have to go back to real lives
But real lives are why we stay
For another dream
Another day
For another world
Another way
For another way
One last time before it's over
One last time before the end
One last time before it's time to go again
Lyrics submitted by oofus, edited by Mellow_Harsher, Tokaji
Out of This World Lyrics as written by Simon Gallup Robert James Smith
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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"But real lives are the reason why we want to live another life, we want to feel another time.." That's exactly how I feel for almost 10 years now.