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've got a million things going around in my head
And I never really paid attention to what you said no
And now I wish that I would have said goodbye,
But its much too late, and all I do is give and all you do is take
[Chorus]
You've gotta look before you leap
And take a good look at your so-called friends
Yeah, that's the company you keep
You've got words coming at you from all directions
You gotta look before you leap
And take a good look at your so-called friends
Yeah, that's the company you keep - they got the words, oh yeah
There's a lot of things that were never said
And if we'd grown up faster then I would have stood up
But-I should have cut you loose a long time ago,
But its much too late
And all I do is give and all you do is take
[Chorus]
Well, there never was a time when you didn't try to lord me over,
Never was there a time when I felt bad for you
Whenever you had the chance, the way I see it
You tried to screw me over
Never was there a time when I wasn't there for you
[Chorus]
They keep flying their flags
But they're never gonna understand
And I never really paid attention to what you said no
And now I wish that I would have said goodbye,
But its much too late, and all I do is give and all you do is take
[Chorus]
You've gotta look before you leap
And take a good look at your so-called friends
Yeah, that's the company you keep
You've got words coming at you from all directions
You gotta look before you leap
And take a good look at your so-called friends
Yeah, that's the company you keep - they got the words, oh yeah
There's a lot of things that were never said
And if we'd grown up faster then I would have stood up
But-I should have cut you loose a long time ago,
But its much too late
And all I do is give and all you do is take
[Chorus]
Well, there never was a time when you didn't try to lord me over,
Never was there a time when I felt bad for you
Whenever you had the chance, the way I see it
You tried to screw me over
Never was there a time when I wasn't there for you
[Chorus]
They keep flying their flags
But they're never gonna understand
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I suppose you could say it's about losing friends, but you have to put it into better context or else you could sem to mean that they are literally lost and therefore dead. I think it's basically about breaking off from a friend who one never really liked in the first place and only wishing one thought to have done it sooner.
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Yea its about losing friends..........but in a good way. what he is saying is take a good look at the friends you have and see if they are accepting you for who you are