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"
It's warm out tonite
But I'm freezing
She said she's moving out
But there's just no good reason
I tried to tell her not to go
I turned the fire up
But it's still twenty below
Whatever happened to the girl I used to know?
Her sunny summer breeze
Turned to frigid blasts of ice and snow
Her stares are ice
And her shoulder's turning cold
What did I do to make her mercury start dropping low
It's not the first time that he's lied to me before
But I know I've had enough
I won't listen to him anymore
If he wants someone else why won't he tell me so?
Cos I'm left out in the cold
And the temperature is twenty below
Cold showers warm me up from nights we spent in bed
That's not lipstick on my collar
And I don't know any pretty redheads
Her accusations sending cold chills up my spine
And I'll always tell the truth
Because melted snowmen never lie
It's not the first time that he's lied to me before
But I know I've had enough
I won't listen to him anymore
If he wants someone else why won't he tell me so?
Cos I'm left out in the cold
And the temperature is twenty below
Twenty below our love is freezing
Why should we carry on if there's just no good reason?
Our frozen tears have turned to snow
My love can't make a spark when your hearts twenty below
Twenty below our love is freezing
Why should we carry on if there's just no good reason?
Our frozen tears have turned to snow
My love can't make a spark when your hearts twenty below
But I'm freezing
She said she's moving out
But there's just no good reason
I tried to tell her not to go
I turned the fire up
But it's still twenty below
Whatever happened to the girl I used to know?
Her sunny summer breeze
Turned to frigid blasts of ice and snow
Her stares are ice
And her shoulder's turning cold
What did I do to make her mercury start dropping low
It's not the first time that he's lied to me before
But I know I've had enough
I won't listen to him anymore
If he wants someone else why won't he tell me so?
Cos I'm left out in the cold
And the temperature is twenty below
Cold showers warm me up from nights we spent in bed
That's not lipstick on my collar
And I don't know any pretty redheads
Her accusations sending cold chills up my spine
And I'll always tell the truth
Because melted snowmen never lie
It's not the first time that he's lied to me before
But I know I've had enough
I won't listen to him anymore
If he wants someone else why won't he tell me so?
Cos I'm left out in the cold
And the temperature is twenty below
Twenty below our love is freezing
Why should we carry on if there's just no good reason?
Our frozen tears have turned to snow
My love can't make a spark when your hearts twenty below
Twenty below our love is freezing
Why should we carry on if there's just no good reason?
Our frozen tears have turned to snow
My love can't make a spark when your hearts twenty below
Lyrics submitted by Madame Me
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This song is very cute. It's so sad that they are drifting apart, but thats what happens when you cant trust one another...i hope this will never happen to me.:s