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"
A pale yellow morning moon hung over,
Over the workaholics on the streets of rain
And high up in a window box
Were blue forget-me-nots
Right here
On the northern line
Waterloo
You can hear the trains pulling out
From the world inside your room
You said if we start running
We could run forever
I can hear the trains pulling out
Ten flights up in a tower block heaven
With half a return ticket in my pocket
And memories of all the same sad souvenirs
And the beating of the rain
In patterns on the same old pain I shared with you
And I tried to tell it true
But I don't hear you
Waterloo
You can hear the trains pulling out
From the world inside your room
You said if we start running
We could run forever
I can hear the trains pulling out
Hear the trains
Pulling out
Hear the trains
Pulling out
Hear the trains
Pulling out
Pulling out
Hear the trains
Hear the trains
Waterloo
Over the workaholics on the streets of rain
And high up in a window box
Were blue forget-me-nots
Right here
On the northern line
Waterloo
You can hear the trains pulling out
From the world inside your room
You said if we start running
We could run forever
I can hear the trains pulling out
Ten flights up in a tower block heaven
With half a return ticket in my pocket
And memories of all the same sad souvenirs
And the beating of the rain
In patterns on the same old pain I shared with you
And I tried to tell it true
But I don't hear you
Waterloo
You can hear the trains pulling out
From the world inside your room
You said if we start running
We could run forever
I can hear the trains pulling out
Hear the trains
Pulling out
Hear the trains
Pulling out
Hear the trains
Pulling out
Pulling out
Hear the trains
Hear the trains
Waterloo
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