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"
Hey hey
Hey hey
Let the rain come down on me
Hey hey
Hey hey
I see people and they're craving blood
And I'm so rarely understood
Well I don't know what they want from me
It's gonna take some time just to let them see
I'm going through a black, hey, Capricorn day
And though it doesn't seem so
I've got to get this way
I'm going through a black, hey, Capricorn day
Though you want to check me out
I'm not the man to play, play, play, play
Hey hey
Don't you see I'm not the man to play
Hey hey
No way you can play with me today
Hey hey
Just let me sing it to my Capricorn day
Hey hey
My heart is a pure sun and the sky is black
And I can feel cold steel when I turn my back
It stings like needles, with a jagged tongue
You know this scream reminds me
Of when I was so young
I never had any of those
Black, hey, Capricorn days
Though it doesn't seem so
I've got to get this way
I'm going through a black, hey, Capricorn day
And though you want to check me out
I'm not the man to play, play, play, play
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black
I'm stuck on the highway
Leading straight to Hell
Like any other drifter with a soul to sell
You know I'm dealing with the devil
In everyone I meet
And their faces tell a story,
That life ain't so sweet
I'm going through a black, hey, Capricorn day
And though it doesn't seem so
I've got to get this way
I'm going through a black, hey, Capricorn day
Though you want to check me out
I'm not the man to play, play, play, play
Black, hey, Capricorn day
Though it doesn't seem so
I've got to get this way
I've got to get this way
Black, hey, Capricorn day
Though you want to check me out
You wanna check me out
I'm not the man to play
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
Hey hey
Let the rain come down on me
Hey hey
Hey hey
I see people and they're craving blood
And I'm so rarely understood
Well I don't know what they want from me
It's gonna take some time just to let them see
I'm going through a black, hey, Capricorn day
And though it doesn't seem so
I've got to get this way
I'm going through a black, hey, Capricorn day
Though you want to check me out
I'm not the man to play, play, play, play
Hey hey
Don't you see I'm not the man to play
Hey hey
No way you can play with me today
Hey hey
Just let me sing it to my Capricorn day
Hey hey
My heart is a pure sun and the sky is black
And I can feel cold steel when I turn my back
It stings like needles, with a jagged tongue
You know this scream reminds me
Of when I was so young
I never had any of those
Black, hey, Capricorn days
Though it doesn't seem so
I've got to get this way
I'm going through a black, hey, Capricorn day
And though you want to check me out
I'm not the man to play, play, play, play
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black
I'm stuck on the highway
Leading straight to Hell
Like any other drifter with a soul to sell
You know I'm dealing with the devil
In everyone I meet
And their faces tell a story,
That life ain't so sweet
I'm going through a black, hey, Capricorn day
And though it doesn't seem so
I've got to get this way
I'm going through a black, hey, Capricorn day
Though you want to check me out
I'm not the man to play, play, play, play
Black, hey, Capricorn day
Though it doesn't seem so
I've got to get this way
I've got to get this way
Black, hey, Capricorn day
Though you want to check me out
You wanna check me out
I'm not the man to play
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
It's just too black for me
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