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"
I miss your brain
The way you think
But I don't miss
The way you used to drink
I miss our talks
The Universal Law
You had a way
Of seeing through my thoughts
It's so confusing I thought I met my match
An intellectual would telling for a catch
You always said we be better off as friends
It was inevitable that it would end
Your picture's off my wall
But I'm still waiting for your call
And every man that walks through that door
Will be compared to you forever more
Still I have no regret
'Cause I survived the biggest test
I cannot lie and I won't pretend
But I feel like I lost my very best friend
I miss the country side where we used to lay
The smell of roses on a lovely summer day
You made me laugh, you had a clever wit
I miss the good times, I don't miss all of it
You wrote me poetry
You had a way with words
You said you wanted more than just a pretty girl
Maybe I challenged you a little bit too much
We couldn't have two drivers on the clutch
Your picture's off my wall
But I'm still waiting for your call
And every man that walks through that door
Will be compared to you forever more
Still I have no regrets
'Cause I survived the biggest test
I cannot lie and I won't pretend
But I feel like I lost my very best friend
Yet I have no regrets
'Cause I survived all biggest tests
I cannot lie and I won't pretend
But I feel like I lost my very best friend
It's so sad that had to end
I lost my very best friend (lost my very best friend)
Not gonna candy coat it
And I don't want to pretend
I put away your letter
Saved the best ones that I have
It wasn't always perfect
But it wasn't always bad
Still I have no regrets
'Cause I survived the biggest test
I cannot lie and I won't pretend
But I feel like I lost my very best friend
Yet I have no regrets
'Cause I survived the biggest test
I will not lie and I can't pretend
But I feel like I lost my very best friend
It's so sad that it had to end
The way you think
But I don't miss
The way you used to drink
I miss our talks
The Universal Law
You had a way
Of seeing through my thoughts
It's so confusing I thought I met my match
An intellectual would telling for a catch
You always said we be better off as friends
It was inevitable that it would end
Your picture's off my wall
But I'm still waiting for your call
And every man that walks through that door
Will be compared to you forever more
Still I have no regret
'Cause I survived the biggest test
I cannot lie and I won't pretend
But I feel like I lost my very best friend
I miss the country side where we used to lay
The smell of roses on a lovely summer day
You made me laugh, you had a clever wit
I miss the good times, I don't miss all of it
You wrote me poetry
You had a way with words
You said you wanted more than just a pretty girl
Maybe I challenged you a little bit too much
We couldn't have two drivers on the clutch
Your picture's off my wall
But I'm still waiting for your call
And every man that walks through that door
Will be compared to you forever more
Still I have no regrets
'Cause I survived the biggest test
I cannot lie and I won't pretend
But I feel like I lost my very best friend
Yet I have no regrets
'Cause I survived all biggest tests
I cannot lie and I won't pretend
But I feel like I lost my very best friend
It's so sad that had to end
I lost my very best friend (lost my very best friend)
Not gonna candy coat it
And I don't want to pretend
I put away your letter
Saved the best ones that I have
It wasn't always perfect
But it wasn't always bad
Still I have no regrets
'Cause I survived the biggest test
I cannot lie and I won't pretend
But I feel like I lost my very best friend
Yet I have no regrets
'Cause I survived the biggest test
I will not lie and I can't pretend
But I feel like I lost my very best friend
It's so sad that it had to end
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