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"
Seems I got to have a change of scene
Every night I have the strangest dreams
Imprisoned by the way it could have been
Left here on my own or so it seems
I got to leave before I start to scream
'Cause someone locked the door and took the key
You feelin' alright?
I'm not feelin' too good myself
Yes, you feelin' alright?
I'm not feelin' that good myself
Boy you sure took me for one big ride
And even now I sit and I wonder why
That when I think of you I start myself to cry out
I just can't waste my time, I must keep dry
Gotta stop believin' in all your lies
'Cause there's too much to do before I die, hey
You feelin' alright?
I'm not feelin' too good myself
You feelin' alright?
I'm not feelin' too good, little girl
Don't get too lost in all I say
Yeah by the time I really felt that way
But that was then, and now you know it's today
I can't get off, I guess I'm here to stay
'Til someone comes along and takes my place, yeah
With a different name, oh, and a different face
You feelin' alright?
I'm not feelin' that good myself
You feelin' alright?
Hey, not feeling that good myself
Woah, not feelin' alright
Yeah, not feelin' that good myself
Oh, woah, I'm not, well I'm not feelin' good myself
You can turn away, feelin' alright I'm not feeling too good myself
Every night I have the strangest dreams
Imprisoned by the way it could have been
Left here on my own or so it seems
I got to leave before I start to scream
'Cause someone locked the door and took the key
You feelin' alright?
I'm not feelin' too good myself
Yes, you feelin' alright?
I'm not feelin' that good myself
Boy you sure took me for one big ride
And even now I sit and I wonder why
That when I think of you I start myself to cry out
I just can't waste my time, I must keep dry
Gotta stop believin' in all your lies
'Cause there's too much to do before I die, hey
You feelin' alright?
I'm not feelin' too good myself
You feelin' alright?
I'm not feelin' too good, little girl
Don't get too lost in all I say
Yeah by the time I really felt that way
But that was then, and now you know it's today
I can't get off, I guess I'm here to stay
'Til someone comes along and takes my place, yeah
With a different name, oh, and a different face
You feelin' alright?
I'm not feelin' that good myself
You feelin' alright?
Hey, not feeling that good myself
Woah, not feelin' alright
Yeah, not feelin' that good myself
Oh, woah, I'm not, well I'm not feelin' good myself
You can turn away, feelin' alright I'm not feeling too good myself
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WHY hasn't ANYONE commented on this song? Geeze.. I have no faith in our generation. This is such a great song.. I love it. A fucking classic, if I do say so myself.
he may not write his own songs, but his covers (typically) are much better than the originals. this song; case in point.
This song just speaks loudly! Really reading the words and you almost get a whole other picture for the beat. Gotta love songs like these!
it´s clearly about a breakup. Another relationship gone wrong. The words describe desperation and a feeling of being a prisioner in a relationship.
but suddenly the desperation turns arround; why??? Well, 2 aspects: 1) The positive: "don´t get to lost in all I say Yeah by the time I really felt that way But that was then, and now you know it's today These 3 verses makes us believe that Love is a work in progress thing, an ever evolving and changing "thing" You can be desperate but if there is a drop of love and there is committment to work things arround it is possible to build up almost any relationship.
2) The dark side I can't get off, I guess I'm here to stay 'Til someone comes along and takes my place, yeah With a different name, oh, and a different face This is the Complacency side of Love. I stay because I can´t get off... I guess I´m here to stay.
Can he write his own hits?