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"
These heavy tears I'm crying
They turn my smile into a frown
Oh, these heavy tears I'm crying
They turn my smile into a frown
When I met you baby
Done turned my whole world upside down
I been looking round for heaven
But hell's fury's all I found
I been looking round for heaven
But hell's fury's all I found
I'm feeling lower than the ground
I gotta look up to see what's down
You used to stay out all night long
Sleep in all the day
I'd come in through the front door
You'd sneak out the back way
You bought us a new car
Made damn sure I paid
You swore you'd never leave me
As you slowly drove away
These heavy tears I'm crying
They twist my smile into a frown
When I met you baby
Done turned my whole world upside down, ohh oh
They turn my smile into a frown
Oh, these heavy tears I'm crying
They turn my smile into a frown
When I met you baby
Done turned my whole world upside down
I been looking round for heaven
But hell's fury's all I found
I been looking round for heaven
But hell's fury's all I found
I'm feeling lower than the ground
I gotta look up to see what's down
You used to stay out all night long
Sleep in all the day
I'd come in through the front door
You'd sneak out the back way
You bought us a new car
Made damn sure I paid
You swore you'd never leave me
As you slowly drove away
These heavy tears I'm crying
They twist my smile into a frown
When I met you baby
Done turned my whole world upside down, ohh oh
Lyrics submitted by MaskOfSanity
Upside Down Lyrics as written by Andrew W Gonzales C Hall
Lyrics © WHIRLED MUSIC PUBLISHING
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I go to university miles away from my home town. I went home for the holiday and met a guy, we instantly clicked, spent the whole holiday together I had to go back to university. we are miles apart from each other. We talk every day. (Connected to you by a mobile) We can't visit each other because we are too busy working (I�m here you are there. Upside: working Downside: hurting )
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