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"
Everyone is looking at me
I can't get out of bed
There is evil in my head
Everyone just let me be
Because when I hit the stage
It is gone and I am free
Goddam you say you'll get up for me
You're the crowd, come on give it back to me
You won't beg for me, beg for me, beg for me
Goddam you say you'll get up with me
You're the crowd, come on give it back to me
You won't beg for me, be there for me, beg for me
Tell me, how could this fade?
I am going in shame
And I could not have my pain
Everyone please let me be
'Cause we're on stage
And it's gone and I am free
Goddam you say you'll get up with me
You're the crowd, come on give it back to me
You won't beg for me, beg for me, beg for me
Goddam you say you'll get up with me
You're the crowd, come on give it back to me
You won't beg for me, be there for me, beg for me
I feel the shame
I'm not insane
The things I feel now
Arent the same
Who gives a fuck,
if my life sucks?
I just know one day
I won't give up
Everyone just let me be
Goddam you say you'll get up with me
You're the crowd, come on give it back to me
ou won't beg for me, beg for me, beg for me
Goddam you say you'll get up with me
You're the crowd, come on give it back to me
You won't beg for me, be there for me, beg for me
Be there, for me
I can't get out of bed
There is evil in my head
Everyone just let me be
Because when I hit the stage
It is gone and I am free
Goddam you say you'll get up for me
You're the crowd, come on give it back to me
You won't beg for me, beg for me, beg for me
Goddam you say you'll get up with me
You're the crowd, come on give it back to me
You won't beg for me, be there for me, beg for me
Tell me, how could this fade?
I am going in shame
And I could not have my pain
Everyone please let me be
'Cause we're on stage
And it's gone and I am free
Goddam you say you'll get up with me
You're the crowd, come on give it back to me
You won't beg for me, beg for me, beg for me
Goddam you say you'll get up with me
You're the crowd, come on give it back to me
You won't beg for me, be there for me, beg for me
I feel the shame
I'm not insane
The things I feel now
Arent the same
Who gives a fuck,
if my life sucks?
I just know one day
I won't give up
Everyone just let me be
Goddam you say you'll get up with me
You're the crowd, come on give it back to me
ou won't beg for me, beg for me, beg for me
Goddam you say you'll get up with me
You're the crowd, come on give it back to me
You won't beg for me, be there for me, beg for me
Be there, for me
Lyrics submitted by kevin
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