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"
You know I think it's time you gave the girl a chance
You know she don't need love and she don't need no romance
You've got to walk before you run
You've got to live for number one
Don't get up for her 'cause you're going down
And if you make a deal you know she's got to have her say
And if you make a deal you know it's got to be her way
We're all fucked up but it don't show
Tell me something I don't know
Uh huh
You know I think it's time you gave the girl a line
You know she don't know how but she knows it'll work out fine
She's gonna walk before you walk
She's gonna shout before you talk
Give her one good reason why she should hang around
Ahuh
And if you make a deal you know she's got to have her say
And if you make a deal you know it's got to be her way
You're all fucked up but it don't show
Tell me something I don't know
Ahuh
It ain't free so
It ain't easy, yeah
It ain't free so
It ain't easy, yeah
It ain't free so
It ain't easy, yeah
It ain't free so
It ain't easy, yeah
It ain't free so
It ain't easy, yeah
It ain't free so
It ain't easy, yeah
You know she don't need love and she don't need no romance
You've got to walk before you run
You've got to live for number one
Don't get up for her 'cause you're going down
And if you make a deal you know she's got to have her say
And if you make a deal you know it's got to be her way
We're all fucked up but it don't show
Tell me something I don't know
Uh huh
You know I think it's time you gave the girl a line
You know she don't know how but she knows it'll work out fine
She's gonna walk before you walk
She's gonna shout before you talk
Give her one good reason why she should hang around
Ahuh
And if you make a deal you know she's got to have her say
And if you make a deal you know it's got to be her way
You're all fucked up but it don't show
Tell me something I don't know
Ahuh
It ain't free so
It ain't easy, yeah
It ain't free so
It ain't easy, yeah
It ain't free so
It ain't easy, yeah
It ain't free so
It ain't easy, yeah
It ain't free so
It ain't easy, yeah
It ain't free so
It ain't easy, yeah
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