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"
You've got something to say,
or so you say to me,
then you receive a blank stare.
You've got something to say of importance and gosh,
that's really good to hear.
I'm proud of you,
so proud of you,
I'm proud of you,
I'm very proud of you.
You've got something S.P. - some to show to me.
Well, I have seen it before.
I can't compete, I can't impress you.
I guess I'll show you the door.
or so you say to me,
then you receive a blank stare.
You've got something to say of importance and gosh,
that's really good to hear.
I'm proud of you,
so proud of you,
I'm proud of you,
I'm very proud of you.
You've got something S.P. - some to show to me.
Well, I have seen it before.
I can't compete, I can't impress you.
I guess I'll show you the door.
Lyrics submitted by oofus
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"I'm proud of you, so proud of you, I'm proud of you,"
yeah like thats what he really says in the chorus
I'm confused. . . .
I like the song though. . .
HAHA ok I'm 4 years late in defending myself, you guys just didn't understand my post. Forever I thought in the chorus he was singing:
"I fuck well, and you suck well, and you fuck well!"
I just listened to it again and I was convinced it was that again. Haah you hostile pimps ain't gettin on my ass on this one, VICTORIOUS!
I will Sugarpunk, you is a fool boyee.
Seriously though I don't understand what you said.
hard to believe when you see it written down but, yeah it does sound like that. i thought the same thing. he's right, you guys are pwnzord in the face.
wait wat the heck isnt it wat are the lyrics then im confused arent the ones posted on the page the real ones i dont thikn davey is going to talk about fucking and all that other crap you said in a song. who ever said that is a pervert and retatrded. thers more to a relashionship than that sick crap you no
Sigh. There was no mention of relationships, so shush now please. The lyrics do sound like that (I fuck well, etc).
And for the record, if you don't thikn (sic) Davey is going to talk about that kind of subject matter, I'll plant a seed right here and suggest you check out a song named Cruise Control.
You could've wrote the song out yourself you whiney fuck.
oh sugar punk he got you good! he got you good you little bastard!