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"
When I was younger, I would argue with my dad
Tell him that I hated him when I was talking back
Blocked his number, can't believe that I did that
Oh, I didn't have a reason, wish that I could take it back
But as the years went by
He was always by my side
To wipe all of the tears I cried
Now that I'm older, realized my father
Was doing the best he could do
Told him one day I'll have a son or a daughter
And when I'm a father too
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
Now I realize that he has struggles of his own
How could I be so selfish, oh, how could I block his phone?
Now I remember when my father lost his job
How he held a home together, for the family he was strong
And as the years went by
He was always by my side
To wipe all of the tears I cried
Now that I'm older, realized my father
Was doing the best he could do
Told him one day I'll have a son or a daughter
And when I'm a father too
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
(I hope that I am just like you)
I hope that I am just like you
(I hope that I am just like you)
I hope that I am just like you
(I hope that I am just like you)
I hope that I am just like you
(I hope that I am just like you)
Now that I'm older, realized my father
Was doing the best he could do
Told him one day I'll have a son or a daughter
And when I'm a father too
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
Tell him that I hated him when I was talking back
Blocked his number, can't believe that I did that
Oh, I didn't have a reason, wish that I could take it back
But as the years went by
He was always by my side
To wipe all of the tears I cried
Now that I'm older, realized my father
Was doing the best he could do
Told him one day I'll have a son or a daughter
And when I'm a father too
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
Now I realize that he has struggles of his own
How could I be so selfish, oh, how could I block his phone?
Now I remember when my father lost his job
How he held a home together, for the family he was strong
And as the years went by
He was always by my side
To wipe all of the tears I cried
Now that I'm older, realized my father
Was doing the best he could do
Told him one day I'll have a son or a daughter
And when I'm a father too
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
(I hope that I am just like you)
I hope that I am just like you
(I hope that I am just like you)
I hope that I am just like you
(I hope that I am just like you)
I hope that I am just like you
(I hope that I am just like you)
Now that I'm older, realized my father
Was doing the best he could do
Told him one day I'll have a son or a daughter
And when I'm a father too
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
I hope that I am just like you
Lyrics submitted by brokenpromisering
Just Like You Lyrics as written by John Cunningham Alec Shane Benjamin
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I cannot believe that nobody has posted anything for this song! This and 3,720 to 1 are my favorite Benjamins songs. This song just has such an awesome guitar line. It's so catchy. And the lyrics. They're very...heaven-ish. If I can even use that in a sentence. The first two verses of this song always make me want to run out and desperately look for the person I'm supposed to be with. You can almost feel her throwing her arms around your neck.
well, yes, this is one of the best songs of all time, true. but that's because it's a cure song. i happen to like the cover though.
i find this song to be superficial and metaphorical
i think its talking about a strictly sexual relationship and later finds out that they both are in love
while they are still in love he finds out that she is dead and that he is still in love with her
(it is reported that ones of roberts smith girlfriend did drown and die)
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