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"
Hmm, hmm, hmm
J'ai demandé à la lune
Et le soleil ne le sait pas
Je lui ai montré mes brûlures
Et la lune s'est moquée de moi
Et comme le ciel n'avait pas fière allure
Et que je ne guérissais pas
Je me suis dit "quelle infortune"
Et la lune s'est moquée de moi
J'ai demandé à la lune
Si tu voulais encore de moi
Elle m'a dit "j'ai pas l'habitude"
"De m'occuper des cas comme ça"
Et toi et moi
On était tellement sûrs
Et on se disait quelquefois
Que c'était juste une aventure
Et que ça ne durerait pas
Je n'ai pas grand chose à te dire
Et pas grand chose pour te faire rire
Car j'imagine toujours le pire
Et le meilleur me fait souffrir
J'ai demandé à la lune
Si tu voulais encore de moi
Elle m'a dit "j'ai pas l'habitude
De m'occuper des cas comme ça"
Et toi et moi
On était tellement sûrs
Et on se disait quelquefois
Que c'était juste une aventure
Et que ça ne durerait pas, ah-ah-ah
J'ai demandé à la lune
Et le soleil ne le sait pas
Je lui ai montré mes brûlures
Et la lune s'est moquée de moi
Et comme le ciel n'avait pas fière allure
Et que je ne guérissais pas
Je me suis dit "quelle infortune"
Et la lune s'est moquée de moi
J'ai demandé à la lune
Si tu voulais encore de moi
Elle m'a dit "j'ai pas l'habitude"
"De m'occuper des cas comme ça"
Et toi et moi
On était tellement sûrs
Et on se disait quelquefois
Que c'était juste une aventure
Et que ça ne durerait pas
Je n'ai pas grand chose à te dire
Et pas grand chose pour te faire rire
Car j'imagine toujours le pire
Et le meilleur me fait souffrir
J'ai demandé à la lune
Si tu voulais encore de moi
Elle m'a dit "j'ai pas l'habitude
De m'occuper des cas comme ça"
Et toi et moi
On était tellement sûrs
Et on se disait quelquefois
Que c'était juste une aventure
Et que ça ne durerait pas, ah-ah-ah
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