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"
have you ever payed thirty bucks
for a ticket where the seating sucks
you left the show with a furrowed brow
whos the sellout now I don't want my mtv
it's just not the same to me
nothing wrong with the video
I don't wanna see no dumb game show
now who's the sellout
BUT BUT BUT what is selling out?
do you know what the bands about?
putting food on the table
more power if your able
you can be dumb or you can be smart
the defination of a rockstar
is when the music is in your wallet and no longer in your heart
now who's a sellout
now who's the sellout
well if sid viscious was so punk
then I guess I'll start shooting junk
they were on a major label
now the band has made the money
your the one that bought the cd
you told all your friends were cool
seems to me that you're the fool
so before you open your mouth
and you say our band has sold out
do you know what they've been through
know what they've gone through
to playin front of YOU!
now whos a sellout
now your the sellout
now your a sellout
now your the sellout
please don't get me wrong
I can't sum it up in one song
open your mind before you open your mouth
cause you might be the one selling out
for a ticket where the seating sucks
you left the show with a furrowed brow
whos the sellout now I don't want my mtv
it's just not the same to me
nothing wrong with the video
I don't wanna see no dumb game show
now who's the sellout
BUT BUT BUT what is selling out?
do you know what the bands about?
putting food on the table
more power if your able
you can be dumb or you can be smart
the defination of a rockstar
is when the music is in your wallet and no longer in your heart
now who's a sellout
now who's the sellout
well if sid viscious was so punk
then I guess I'll start shooting junk
they were on a major label
now the band has made the money
your the one that bought the cd
you told all your friends were cool
seems to me that you're the fool
so before you open your mouth
and you say our band has sold out
do you know what they've been through
know what they've gone through
to playin front of YOU!
now whos a sellout
now your the sellout
now your a sellout
now your the sellout
please don't get me wrong
I can't sum it up in one song
open your mind before you open your mouth
cause you might be the one selling out
Lyrics submitted by happypunk
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