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"
The Stonewall Bar was raided
We did not like the owner
The cops came in without warning
And all the dancing stopped
If you had your ID you left peacefully like me
If you had your ID you left peacefully like me
Paid goons started the riot
the stonewall kids were shot
These paid goons they were hired
to see the bar was torn apart
20 years later they put my clone on TV
They even dressed him up so that he would look just like me
Don't you believe the stories that they write about that night
The stonewall kids had good jobs and all of us were white
Everyone takes credit for what happened on that night
And all of them seem happy while I'm drugged to be uptight
I did not get any favors from the ones who used my clone
In fact they owe me money from when my SSI was stopped
Now they will not pay me
And offer me no explanation why
And I know that they don't need me because they got my clone instead
They harass me and they torture me thinking I will kill myself
But instead I outsmart them with the music that I sell
Now my clone has replaced me
But they cannot replace my soul
So if you see me and I don't know you its not me but my clone instead
I sing this little warning to all of my close friends
Who maybe tortured with me until my story ends
Its true that they don't need you, they'll use your clone instead
And arrange a little accident to make the real you dead
We did not like the owner
The cops came in without warning
And all the dancing stopped
If you had your ID you left peacefully like me
If you had your ID you left peacefully like me
Paid goons started the riot
the stonewall kids were shot
These paid goons they were hired
to see the bar was torn apart
20 years later they put my clone on TV
They even dressed him up so that he would look just like me
Don't you believe the stories that they write about that night
The stonewall kids had good jobs and all of us were white
Everyone takes credit for what happened on that night
And all of them seem happy while I'm drugged to be uptight
I did not get any favors from the ones who used my clone
In fact they owe me money from when my SSI was stopped
Now they will not pay me
And offer me no explanation why
And I know that they don't need me because they got my clone instead
They harass me and they torture me thinking I will kill myself
But instead I outsmart them with the music that I sell
Now my clone has replaced me
But they cannot replace my soul
So if you see me and I don't know you its not me but my clone instead
I sing this little warning to all of my close friends
Who maybe tortured with me until my story ends
Its true that they don't need you, they'll use your clone instead
And arrange a little accident to make the real you dead
Lyrics submitted by theageofcake
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