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 live on a small street, with very small shoes
But in a big house, with a big wardrobe
I've got the whole world in my hands
It's a small world after all
And there's not much to say on five bucks a day
And there's no other way, so we're just hanging around
For the weekend to come
We're all hungry and dumb for Friday
So yeah, I feel electric, pink in the cheeks
We look like animals seven days a week
I feel electric, pink in the cheeks
I'm too polite and maybe you're too brief
Please don't press that we dress
High heels and loud shoes are a mess
Step out with quiet feet
And now I'm pleased to meet
Meeting is so hard to do when you're dead
So yeah, I feel electric, pink in the cheeks
We look like animals seven days a week
I feel electric, pink in the cheeks
I'm too polite and maybe you're too brief
Between a wink and an earthquake, there are conversations
And complications go on, on, and on
I pretend that I understand
My hands and the rest are only a test
To be paid to be pressed
When we end, we will be softly kissed
So yeah, I feel electric, pink in the cheeks
We look like animals seven days a week
I feel electric, pink in the cheeks
I'm too polite and maybe you're too brief
Yeah, what'd you think that I would be feeling?
Electric pink...
I live on a small street
Stepping out with quiet feet
But in a big house, with a big wardrobe
I've got the whole world in my hands
It's a small world after all
And there's not much to say on five bucks a day
And there's no other way, so we're just hanging around
For the weekend to come
We're all hungry and dumb for Friday
So yeah, I feel electric, pink in the cheeks
We look like animals seven days a week
I feel electric, pink in the cheeks
I'm too polite and maybe you're too brief
Please don't press that we dress
High heels and loud shoes are a mess
Step out with quiet feet
And now I'm pleased to meet
Meeting is so hard to do when you're dead
So yeah, I feel electric, pink in the cheeks
We look like animals seven days a week
I feel electric, pink in the cheeks
I'm too polite and maybe you're too brief
Between a wink and an earthquake, there are conversations
And complications go on, on, and on
I pretend that I understand
My hands and the rest are only a test
To be paid to be pressed
When we end, we will be softly kissed
So yeah, I feel electric, pink in the cheeks
We look like animals seven days a week
I feel electric, pink in the cheeks
I'm too polite and maybe you're too brief
Yeah, what'd you think that I would be feeling?
Electric pink...
I live on a small street
Stepping out with quiet feet
Lyrics submitted by oofus, edited by embassyrow
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