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"
I saw the stars fall from the sky
And watched the tail lights fade away
As the sun began to witness a new day.
I drove five hundred thousand miles
To find a world unlike my own,
And now middle of nowhere seems like my home.
Alone, unknown... Yet fearing nothing but ourselves
Could be scarier than any crowded room.
I'm more alone with you than when I'm by myself.
Another night stuck on the vine,
Another low lit memory
Where time will slowly have it's way with me.
We live our lives to expect the worst
But once it happens what is left?
We will never have to be surprised again.
Just you and me not saying much of anything
Sometimes could mean more than a thousand words
Goodbye, farewell to this fucked up world that was my former self.
We never seem to have the time until we waste it
All gone, goodbye.
Think and think alike, never seemed to have the time
Until one day it's all gone, you've thrown it all away.
I'm glad you were a part of my hotel year.
And watched the tail lights fade away
As the sun began to witness a new day.
I drove five hundred thousand miles
To find a world unlike my own,
And now middle of nowhere seems like my home.
Alone, unknown... Yet fearing nothing but ourselves
Could be scarier than any crowded room.
I'm more alone with you than when I'm by myself.
Another night stuck on the vine,
Another low lit memory
Where time will slowly have it's way with me.
We live our lives to expect the worst
But once it happens what is left?
We will never have to be surprised again.
Just you and me not saying much of anything
Sometimes could mean more than a thousand words
Goodbye, farewell to this fucked up world that was my former self.
We never seem to have the time until we waste it
All gone, goodbye.
Think and think alike, never seemed to have the time
Until one day it's all gone, you've thrown it all away.
I'm glad you were a part of my hotel year.
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In this song I think Kris Roe is talking about how much being on the road changes you. In this case, he was so excited to get to be going home to his girlfriend, and things aren't like he expected, they are akward and uncomfortable, and he realizes that he doesn't love her anymore. He realizes that their chance has passed. And though he might be upset, he's kinda happy that it happened.
so why say "I'm glad you were apart of my hotel year"?
well if that person was right because it's about all the people you met on the road and around... they were part of your hotel year, when you stayed in hotels in mad different places, etc.
however... the song is written in response to some book... it says it right inside the insert for the "look forward to failure" EP. I'd like to read the book cuz this is like the best song
certain parts of this song definitely go along with my life philosophy...i.e. We live our lives to expect the worst But once it happens what is left? We will never have to be surprised again.
i love this song. awesome. 2nd best ataris song in my opinion...first being i.o.u. one galaxy.
this song was inspired by 'life after god' by douglas coupland and some of the lyrics are taken right from it. it's an awesome book and it inspired the name to an amazing orlando band called <a href="myhotelyear.com">my hotel year</a>. check them out, they are great.
Great song, with great lyrics to go.
i usually dont have fave songs from fave bands, but for some reason, from teh first time i heard it, its my favorite. the way the music goes, to the lyrics, its incredible. the ataris are an awesome band, but the song is the standout. i love it so much.
such good song... i would love to tour the world with my friends to understand the feeling.
i love this song...
Goodbye, farewell to this fucked up world that was my former self.
i have felt that way so many times...
i love the ataris
THEY ARE COMING NOVEMEBER. IM PSYCHED.
it will be the show of forever