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"
Passed out on the overpass
Sunday best and broken glass
Broken down from the bikes
And bars Suspended like spirits
Over speeding cars
You and me were kings over the
Parkway tonight
And tonight will go on forever
While we walk around this town
Like we own the streets
And stay awake through summer
Like we own the heat
Singing "everybody wake up(wake
Up)it's time to get down"
(everybody, everybody wake up
It's time to get down)
And when I pass the bottle back
To Pete on the overpass tonight,
I bet we laugh
I'm gonna stay eighteen forever
(cut me open)
So we can stay like this forever
(sun poisoned)
And we'll never miss a party
(this offer stands forever)
'Cause we keep them going constantly
And we'll never have to listen
(new haircut)
To anyone about anything
(new bracelet)
'Cause it's all been done and
It's all been said
(eyeliner)
We're the coolest kids and we
Take what we can get
(wait forever)
The hell out of this town
Find some conversation
The low fule lights been on for days
It doesn't mean anyhting
I've got another 500 nother 500 miles
Before we shut this engine down,
We shut it down
I'm gonna stay eighteen forever
(cut me open)
So we can stay like this forever
(sun poisoned)
And we'll never miss a party
(this offer stands forever)
'Cause we keep them going constantly
And we'll never have to listen
(new haircut)
To anyone about anything
(new bracelet)
'Cause it's all been done
And it's all been said
(eyeliner)
We're the coolest kids and
We take what we can get
(wait forever)
(you're just jealous cause
I'm young and in love)
Eighteen forever
(your stomachs filled up but
You're starved for conversation)
So we can stay like this forever
(you're spending all your nights
Growing old in your bed)
And we'll never miss a party
(and your tearin up your photos
'Cause you want to forget... it's over)
'Cause we keep them going constantly
(you're just jealous cause
I'm young and in love)
And we'll never have to listen
(your stomachs filled up but
You're starved for conversation)
To anyone about anything cause
It's all been done
(you're spending all your nights
Growing old in your bed)
And it's all been said
(and your tearin' up your photos
'Cause you want to forget... it's over)
We're the coolest kids and we take
What we can get
Just jealous cause we're
Young and in love
You're just jealous cause
We're young and in love [Repeat: x5]
Sunday best and broken glass
Broken down from the bikes
And bars Suspended like spirits
Over speeding cars
You and me were kings over the
Parkway tonight
And tonight will go on forever
While we walk around this town
Like we own the streets
And stay awake through summer
Like we own the heat
Singing "everybody wake up(wake
Up)it's time to get down"
(everybody, everybody wake up
It's time to get down)
And when I pass the bottle back
To Pete on the overpass tonight,
I bet we laugh
I'm gonna stay eighteen forever
(cut me open)
So we can stay like this forever
(sun poisoned)
And we'll never miss a party
(this offer stands forever)
'Cause we keep them going constantly
And we'll never have to listen
(new haircut)
To anyone about anything
(new bracelet)
'Cause it's all been done and
It's all been said
(eyeliner)
We're the coolest kids and we
Take what we can get
(wait forever)
The hell out of this town
Find some conversation
The low fule lights been on for days
It doesn't mean anyhting
I've got another 500 nother 500 miles
Before we shut this engine down,
We shut it down
I'm gonna stay eighteen forever
(cut me open)
So we can stay like this forever
(sun poisoned)
And we'll never miss a party
(this offer stands forever)
'Cause we keep them going constantly
And we'll never have to listen
(new haircut)
To anyone about anything
(new bracelet)
'Cause it's all been done
And it's all been said
(eyeliner)
We're the coolest kids and
We take what we can get
(wait forever)
(you're just jealous cause
I'm young and in love)
Eighteen forever
(your stomachs filled up but
You're starved for conversation)
So we can stay like this forever
(you're spending all your nights
Growing old in your bed)
And we'll never miss a party
(and your tearin up your photos
'Cause you want to forget... it's over)
'Cause we keep them going constantly
(you're just jealous cause
I'm young and in love)
And we'll never have to listen
(your stomachs filled up but
You're starved for conversation)
To anyone about anything cause
It's all been done
(you're spending all your nights
Growing old in your bed)
And it's all been said
(and your tearin' up your photos
'Cause you want to forget... it's over)
We're the coolest kids and we take
What we can get
Just jealous cause we're
Young and in love
You're just jealous cause
We're young and in love [Repeat: x5]
Lyrics submitted by BrandNew1208
Soco Amaretto Lime Lyrics as written by Jesse Lacey
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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