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 won't ask you where you're goin'
I won't ask you where you been
I know after a million times
You get sick of my lines
But I just want to see you safe again
Hopefully it occurs to me
That there's one thing I can't stand
That's the thought of a single day
Without your head in my hand
I know that just now I ain't been showin'
The kind of love you know that I can
So gimmie a little while and
You'll be knowin' that your good ol' lovin'
Baby is back on top again
I always hoped you'd be showin'
And now you've shown as much as you can
But after each time I'm still glowin'
With a good ol lovin' smile
That's yours until the end
I won't ask you where you been
I know after a million times
You get sick of my lines
But I just want to see you safe again
Hopefully it occurs to me
That there's one thing I can't stand
That's the thought of a single day
Without your head in my hand
I know that just now I ain't been showin'
The kind of love you know that I can
So gimmie a little while and
You'll be knowin' that your good ol' lovin'
Baby is back on top again
I always hoped you'd be showin'
And now you've shown as much as you can
But after each time I'm still glowin'
With a good ol lovin' smile
That's yours until the end
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