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"
Mary was on Face The Nation
Sunday morning ten o'clock
It's a very strange world
In a very strange time
Jimmy makes a handsome living
Juggling weapons in the park
It's a very strange world
In a very strange time
And so it goes slowly down the road
And so I say - I got no friends today
The bomber got his manifesto
Published in the New York Times
It's a very strange world
Got some interesting minds
Advertising pays more than a lot
While the teacher's selling pies in the parking lot
It's a very strange world
With some well hidden crimes
I didn't know life could get so cold
I didn't see - I thought they were all like me
It's a very strange world
But I think I like it
I didn't know life could get so cold
I didn't see - I thought they were all like me
And so it goes slowly down the road
And so I say - I got no friends today
Mary went to Face The Nation
Sunday morning ten o'clock
It's a very strange time
In a very strange world
Sunday morning ten o'clock
It's a very strange world
In a very strange time
Jimmy makes a handsome living
Juggling weapons in the park
It's a very strange world
In a very strange time
And so it goes slowly down the road
And so I say - I got no friends today
The bomber got his manifesto
Published in the New York Times
It's a very strange world
Got some interesting minds
Advertising pays more than a lot
While the teacher's selling pies in the parking lot
It's a very strange world
With some well hidden crimes
I didn't know life could get so cold
I didn't see - I thought they were all like me
It's a very strange world
But I think I like it
I didn't know life could get so cold
I didn't see - I thought they were all like me
And so it goes slowly down the road
And so I say - I got no friends today
Mary went to Face The Nation
Sunday morning ten o'clock
It's a very strange time
In a very strange world
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