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"
Maybe when the room is empty
Maybe when the bottle's full
Maybe when the door gets broke down
Love can break in
And maybe when I'm done with thinking
Maybe you can think me whole
Maybe when I'm done with endings
This can begin
This can begin
This can begin
If you could be my punk rock princess
I would be your garage band king
You could tell me why you just don't fit in
And how you're gonna be something
Maybe when your hair gets darker
Maybe when your eyes get wide
Maybe when the walls are smaller
There will be more space
And maybe when I'm not so tired
Maybe you can step inside
Maybe when I look for things
That I can't replace
I can't replace
I can't replace
If you could be my punk rock princess
I would be your garage band king
You could tell me why you just don't fit in
And how you're gonna be something
If I could be your first real heartache
I would do it over again
If you could be my punk rock princess
I would be your heroine
Well, I never thought you'd last
I never dreamed you would
You watch your life go past
You wonder if you should
If you should be my punk rock princess
I would be your garage band king
You could tell me why you just don't fit in
And how you're gonna be something
If I could be your first real heartache
I would do it over again
If you could be my punk rock princess
I would be your heroine
Whoa, you know
You only burn my bridges
Whoa, you know
You just can't let it sink in
You could be my heroine
You could be my heroine
Maybe when the bottle's full
Maybe when the door gets broke down
Love can break in
And maybe when I'm done with thinking
Maybe you can think me whole
Maybe when I'm done with endings
This can begin
This can begin
This can begin
If you could be my punk rock princess
I would be your garage band king
You could tell me why you just don't fit in
And how you're gonna be something
Maybe when your hair gets darker
Maybe when your eyes get wide
Maybe when the walls are smaller
There will be more space
And maybe when I'm not so tired
Maybe you can step inside
Maybe when I look for things
That I can't replace
I can't replace
I can't replace
If you could be my punk rock princess
I would be your garage band king
You could tell me why you just don't fit in
And how you're gonna be something
If I could be your first real heartache
I would do it over again
If you could be my punk rock princess
I would be your heroine
Well, I never thought you'd last
I never dreamed you would
You watch your life go past
You wonder if you should
If you should be my punk rock princess
I would be your garage band king
You could tell me why you just don't fit in
And how you're gonna be something
If I could be your first real heartache
I would do it over again
If you could be my punk rock princess
I would be your heroine
Whoa, you know
You only burn my bridges
Whoa, you know
You just can't let it sink in
You could be my heroine
You could be my heroine
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Punk Rock Princess Lyrics as written by Andrew Ross Mcmahon
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My boyfriend calls me his Punk Rock Princess... I cal him my Garage Band King... :) This song always reminded me of him, and when I told him that, he said it reminded him of me, so that's why we call each other that :) aren't we cute together? :P