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"
Sittin' on your ass all day
Thinkin' bout your hangover and the par-tay
You left your fuckin' keys at
And had to beg for a
Ride from a stranger that I never met before
He acted so friendly that I had to take the ride
But for some reason he resembled that guy
Wanted for a robbery
And beatin' on his kid
"You remind me of my stepson"
He chuckled with a grin
What was that move
That they taught in self-defense
You block the killer's knife
Move with some confidence
The signal when you're trapped inside a moving car I wonder if he'll drive real far
What a day, What a day
Should've stayed home shootin' the breeze all day
What a day, What a day
What a day, What a day
You should think next time
Before you start to play
What a day, What a day
I wonder what'll happen today
Rub your eyes from
No sleep this week
Tap your heels home
Then fall asleep
Sittin' 'round looking for a fight
Kinda' pissed off how I'm turnin' my life
Up-side down from insecure insecurities
Makin' up my mind through old hypocrisy
Up and out of harms way
Down cause I want to be there
Here because you want me
Not because you're caught in my stare
What was that move
That they taught in self-defense
You block the killer's knife
Move with some confidence
The signal when you're trapped inside a moving car
I wonder if he'll drive real far
What a day, What a day
Should've stayed home shootin' the breeze all day
What a day, What a day
What a day, What a day
You should think next time
Before you start to play
What a day, What a day
I wonder what'll happen today
Rub your eyes from
No sleep this week
Tap your heels home
Then fall asleep
Alseep in me
There is something wrong instead
What a day, What a day
Should've stayed home shootin' the breeze all day
What a day, What a day
What a day, What a day
You should think next time
Before you start to play
What a day, What a day
What a day, What a day
What a day, What a day
Thinkin' bout your hangover and the par-tay
You left your fuckin' keys at
And had to beg for a
Ride from a stranger that I never met before
He acted so friendly that I had to take the ride
But for some reason he resembled that guy
Wanted for a robbery
And beatin' on his kid
"You remind me of my stepson"
He chuckled with a grin
What was that move
That they taught in self-defense
You block the killer's knife
Move with some confidence
The signal when you're trapped inside a moving car I wonder if he'll drive real far
What a day, What a day
Should've stayed home shootin' the breeze all day
What a day, What a day
What a day, What a day
You should think next time
Before you start to play
What a day, What a day
I wonder what'll happen today
Rub your eyes from
No sleep this week
Tap your heels home
Then fall asleep
Sittin' 'round looking for a fight
Kinda' pissed off how I'm turnin' my life
Up-side down from insecure insecurities
Makin' up my mind through old hypocrisy
Up and out of harms way
Down cause I want to be there
Here because you want me
Not because you're caught in my stare
What was that move
That they taught in self-defense
You block the killer's knife
Move with some confidence
The signal when you're trapped inside a moving car
I wonder if he'll drive real far
What a day, What a day
Should've stayed home shootin' the breeze all day
What a day, What a day
What a day, What a day
You should think next time
Before you start to play
What a day, What a day
I wonder what'll happen today
Rub your eyes from
No sleep this week
Tap your heels home
Then fall asleep
Alseep in me
There is something wrong instead
What a day, What a day
Should've stayed home shootin' the breeze all day
What a day, What a day
What a day, What a day
You should think next time
Before you start to play
What a day, What a day
What a day, What a day
What a day, What a day
Lyrics submitted by thewhitepony33
What a Day Lyrics as written by Elias P. Soriano Andrew Jason Goldman
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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this song is hella cool
This song is like, my theme song....except for the leaving car keys...it's usually house keys, which sucks, but you really havn't had a bad day till you have been picked up by a known criminal :) May Nonpoint Rock On Forever
its about about a strange day
This song is awesome. It reminds me of everyday life. People gettin hurt cause they dont think before they do. But its not really their fault cause you never thought it'd happen to you.
This is a good song :D Very catchy but very spooky in a way... lol
The song is about having a really bad and fucked up day. How do I know this? They opened for Papa Roach and there singer said this before they played the song. Nonpoint is tha shit live.
These people kicked ass at the K-Rockathon in Oswego. They put on one hell of a show. This song kicks ass and is one of the best songs of all times.
i saw them in 01 at the krockathon at vernon downs.... they were wicked good. i love this song its crazy
Yea I saw em in Charlotte, NC when they kicked off the Love Hate Tradgedy tour. They where probably the first band I moshed to, I came out of that concert black and blue.
i saw them a couple weeks ago with papa roach and they blew me away...theyre a fn awesome live band