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 cashed in all my chips tonight,
combed my hair to look just right
Cause I been thinkin bout you and me girl
and we got somethin' goin' on
You told me you can't wait to see me
and you didn't bother to even show up
This whole situations incredibly typical
I shoulda seen it all along
I shoulda seen it all along
I shoulda seen it all along
It's girls like you that make me think I'm better off
home on a saturday night
with all my doors locked up tight
I won't be thinkin' about you, baby
Call me on the phone
but you don't even want to talk
you're staring at me from across the room
but turn your back when I walk up
we got inches away
and I never even got close
leave your lipstick at home,
don't pick up the phone,
don't bother to look in my direction
I shoulda seen it all along
I shoulda seen it all along
It's girls like you that make me think I'm better off
home on a saturday night
with all my doors locked up tight
I won't be thinkin' about you, baby
Home on a saturday night
with all my doors locked up tight
I won't be thinkin' about you, baby
Forget everything you think you know about me
This isn't highschool(8x)
(forget everything you think you know about me)
I'm better off home on a saturday night
with all my doors locked up tight
I won't be thinkin' about you, baby
(forget everything you think you know about me)
Home on a saturday night
with all my doors locked up tight
I won't be thinkin' about you, baby
(forget everything you think you know about me)
Home on a saturday night (this isn't high school)
with all my doors locked up tight (this isn't high school)
I won't be thinkin' about you, baby (this isn't high school)
(forget everything you think you know about me)
Home on a saturday night (this isn't high school)
with all my doors locked up tight (this isn't high school)
I won't be thinkin' about you, baby (this isn't high school)
combed my hair to look just right
Cause I been thinkin bout you and me girl
and we got somethin' goin' on
You told me you can't wait to see me
and you didn't bother to even show up
This whole situations incredibly typical
I shoulda seen it all along
I shoulda seen it all along
I shoulda seen it all along
It's girls like you that make me think I'm better off
home on a saturday night
with all my doors locked up tight
I won't be thinkin' about you, baby
Call me on the phone
but you don't even want to talk
you're staring at me from across the room
but turn your back when I walk up
we got inches away
and I never even got close
leave your lipstick at home,
don't pick up the phone,
don't bother to look in my direction
I shoulda seen it all along
I shoulda seen it all along
It's girls like you that make me think I'm better off
home on a saturday night
with all my doors locked up tight
I won't be thinkin' about you, baby
Home on a saturday night
with all my doors locked up tight
I won't be thinkin' about you, baby
Forget everything you think you know about me
This isn't highschool(8x)
(forget everything you think you know about me)
I'm better off home on a saturday night
with all my doors locked up tight
I won't be thinkin' about you, baby
(forget everything you think you know about me)
Home on a saturday night
with all my doors locked up tight
I won't be thinkin' about you, baby
(forget everything you think you know about me)
Home on a saturday night (this isn't high school)
with all my doors locked up tight (this isn't high school)
I won't be thinkin' about you, baby (this isn't high school)
(forget everything you think you know about me)
Home on a saturday night (this isn't high school)
with all my doors locked up tight (this isn't high school)
I won't be thinkin' about you, baby (this isn't high school)
Lyrics submitted by BrandNew1208
Last Chance to Lose Your Keys Lyrics as written by Garrett Tierney Brian Lane
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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