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"
Give me a reason
I'm on my knees and
I'm betting anything will keep me alive
I'm treading water
your mind is stronger
I'm faking anything that I can't define
You're broken hearts gone
And now your all alone
You're giving everything and now you'll break mine
I'm saying sorry
The words are nothing
Your voice is poison
And it gets worse
In time [x6]
This is out of control
We are still locked down today
We keep playing along
With intentions
What intentions?
It's like a bad dream, another story
That's running circles in the back of my mind
See now it's ok to give me nothing
'Cause I was using you so I could get mine
You know I wanted to see only you
But you were trying just to keep me away
We're realizing, We're patronizing
So now its over but the past it remains
In time [x6]
This is out of control
We are still locked down today
We keep playing along
With intentions
This is out of control
We are still locked down today
We keep playing along
With intentions
What intentions?
These imperfections make it hurt
And you're far away now but I know you're coming home
This is out of control
We can't make it on our own
We keep playing along just to leave us more alone
This is out of control
This happy ending's getting old
But we're playing along
With intentions
This is out of control
We are still locked down today
We keep playing along
With intentions
This is out of control
We are still locked down today
We keep playing along
With intentions
What intentions?
I'm on my knees and
I'm betting anything will keep me alive
I'm treading water
your mind is stronger
I'm faking anything that I can't define
You're broken hearts gone
And now your all alone
You're giving everything and now you'll break mine
I'm saying sorry
The words are nothing
Your voice is poison
And it gets worse
In time [x6]
This is out of control
We are still locked down today
We keep playing along
With intentions
What intentions?
It's like a bad dream, another story
That's running circles in the back of my mind
See now it's ok to give me nothing
'Cause I was using you so I could get mine
You know I wanted to see only you
But you were trying just to keep me away
We're realizing, We're patronizing
So now its over but the past it remains
In time [x6]
This is out of control
We are still locked down today
We keep playing along
With intentions
This is out of control
We are still locked down today
We keep playing along
With intentions
What intentions?
These imperfections make it hurt
And you're far away now but I know you're coming home
This is out of control
We can't make it on our own
We keep playing along just to leave us more alone
This is out of control
This happy ending's getting old
But we're playing along
With intentions
This is out of control
We are still locked down today
We keep playing along
With intentions
This is out of control
We are still locked down today
We keep playing along
With intentions
What intentions?
Lyrics submitted by BrandNew1208
Out of Control Lyrics as written by Jon Berry Clark Domae
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Cloud9
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