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"
Look up on the wall, there on the floor
Under the pillow, behind the door
There's a crack in the mirror
Somewhere there's a hole in a window pane
Do you think I'm to blame?
Tell me, do you think I'm to blame?
(When we do it) you're never there
(When you show it) just stop and stare
(Abacab) he's in anywhere
(Abacab)
If you're wrappin' up the world
'Cause you've taken someone else's girl
When they turn on the pillow
Even when they answer the telephone
Don't you think that by now
Tell me, don't you think that by now
(When we do it) you're never there
(When you show it) just stop and stare
(Abacab) he's in anywhere
(Abacab) doesn't really care
Do you want it? You got it, now you know
Do you want it? You got it, now you know
It's an illusion, it's a game
Or reflection of someone else's name
When you wake in the morning
Wake and find you're covered in cellophane
Well, there's a hole in there somewhere
Yeah, there's a hole in there somewhere
Baby, there's a hole in there somewhere
Now there's a hole in there somewhere
(When we do it) you're never there
(When you show it) you stop and stare
(Abacab) he's in anywhere
(Abacab)
Under the pillow, behind the door
There's a crack in the mirror
Somewhere there's a hole in a window pane
Do you think I'm to blame?
Tell me, do you think I'm to blame?
(When we do it) you're never there
(When you show it) just stop and stare
(Abacab) he's in anywhere
(Abacab)
If you're wrappin' up the world
'Cause you've taken someone else's girl
When they turn on the pillow
Even when they answer the telephone
Don't you think that by now
Tell me, don't you think that by now
(When we do it) you're never there
(When you show it) just stop and stare
(Abacab) he's in anywhere
(Abacab) doesn't really care
Do you want it? You got it, now you know
Do you want it? You got it, now you know
It's an illusion, it's a game
Or reflection of someone else's name
When you wake in the morning
Wake and find you're covered in cellophane
Well, there's a hole in there somewhere
Yeah, there's a hole in there somewhere
Baby, there's a hole in there somewhere
Now there's a hole in there somewhere
(When we do it) you're never there
(When you show it) you stop and stare
(Abacab) he's in anywhere
(Abacab)
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae, edited by scott10187
Abacab Lyrics as written by Phil Collins Michael Rutherford
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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I think I have figured out this song. First ABACAB denotes the structure of the song...but the song is about having a hit song...see my edits below
Look up on the wall, there on the floor, (Posters of rock stars) Under the pillow, behind the door. (Posters, records, tape players) There's a crack in the mirror. (pictures of the rock star shoved in the frame of a mirror) Somewhere there's a hole in a window pane. (rocking out hard that something went through the window) Do you think I'm to blame? (rock and roll is to blame) Tell me, do you think I'm to blame? (rock and roll is to blame for kids bad behavior and may be a play on Ozzy's Suicide Solution lawsuit he had to go through)
(When we do it) you're never there. (when people rock out to your hit song) (When you show it) just stop and stare. (the first time you see someone rocking to your song it is weird) (Abacab) he's in anywhere.(the song is playing everywhere) (Abacab)
If you're wrappin' up the world (touring to support your hit) 'Cause you've taken someone else's girl, (rock stars always get the girl) When they turn on the pillow, (headphones?) Even when they answer the telephone, (hit songs have been used extensively as a way to answer the phone using the melody) Don't you think that by now... Tell me, don't you think that by now. (you have a hit(
(When we do it) you're never there. (see above) (When you show it) just stop and stare. (Abacab) he's in anywhere. (Abacab) doesn't really care. (after awhile your hit dies)
Do you want it? You got it. Now you know. (this is what it is like to have a hit song) Do you want it? You got it. Now you know.
It's an illusion. It's a game, (making hit music in the industry) Or reflection of someone else's name. (someone else may have written the song) When you wake in the morning, Wake and find you're covered in cellophane, ( CDs and cassettes used to be wrapped tightly with cellophane) Well, there's a hole in there somewhere. Yeah, there's a hole in there somewhere. Baby, there's a hole in there somewhere. ( there was a hole in the cellophane that you would put a pen or pencil into to rip the cellophane off) Now there's a hole in there somewhere. (it was always hard to find)
(When we do it) you're never there. (When you show it) you stop and stare. (see above) (Abacab) he's in anywhere. (Abacab)