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"
Pull back the sheets
And climb in bed with me
We can talk all night
I'm not tired, are you?
I'm not tired, are you?
Did you like the party?
Did you see any pretty girls there?
Not that it matters
Neither of us are alone
Neither of us are alone
But sometimes it feels that way
So I need a sign
Give me your hand
No more life as expected
I'm through with the usual
I want to fall in love
But if my mouth stays shut, and I don't speak up
Then she'll never know, then she'll never know
If I can't relax, if I can't tell her how I really feel
What she really means to me
The cops showed up
About a quarter to two
I didn't even notice
I was so immersed in my conversation with you
The band's too loud
Somebody tell them
Somebody tell them to turn it down
I don't want to hear a sound
Except for her voice
Except for her breath
Except for my beating heart
Begging her to come closer and closer
Oh, I want her close to me
But if the hands don't clap
And if I can't relax
This is hopelessness
Why do I even try?
Because tonight will end
And my life goes on
Like it always has
Like it's always going to
The chorus is done
And we're still standing
In our standard melody
Only one of us is alone
Only one of us is alone
And it's not you
And it's not you
Thank God it's not you
And climb in bed with me
We can talk all night
I'm not tired, are you?
I'm not tired, are you?
Did you like the party?
Did you see any pretty girls there?
Not that it matters
Neither of us are alone
Neither of us are alone
But sometimes it feels that way
So I need a sign
Give me your hand
No more life as expected
I'm through with the usual
I want to fall in love
But if my mouth stays shut, and I don't speak up
Then she'll never know, then she'll never know
If I can't relax, if I can't tell her how I really feel
What she really means to me
The cops showed up
About a quarter to two
I didn't even notice
I was so immersed in my conversation with you
The band's too loud
Somebody tell them
Somebody tell them to turn it down
I don't want to hear a sound
Except for her voice
Except for her breath
Except for my beating heart
Begging her to come closer and closer
Oh, I want her close to me
But if the hands don't clap
And if I can't relax
This is hopelessness
Why do I even try?
Because tonight will end
And my life goes on
Like it always has
Like it's always going to
The chorus is done
And we're still standing
In our standard melody
Only one of us is alone
Only one of us is alone
And it's not you
And it's not you
Thank God it's not you
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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I agree with emoeyes on this one, but ThingsIHaventToldU could still be right, it's one of those beautiful subjective songs of jilted romance