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"
Oh! Ellin what can I do
Oh! Ellin what can I do, there is nothing aside from you
Oh! Ellin what can I do, there is nothing aside from you
I hate to say I'm starting again to try
To Get you off of my mind
I must admit, it's so hard to do, oh Ellin, with no you by my side
I have the chance to land on my own two feet and, keep my chin off the ground
But now, your gone, I beat my self up about it, it sucks without you around,
It sucks when your not around
Oh! Ellin what can I do, there is nothing aside from you
Oh! Ellin, what can I lose, there's nothing aside from you
Oh, oh, oh, oh ,oh, oh!!!
I trace your steps, but I get lost, i bet it's what you had in mind,
And can't you see, that all is not well,
Oh Ellin, not since you left me behind,
I waste away, its miserable here, its stupid, to even try to pretend,
Cause when, you slip, my mind i start to panic,
I'm scared to lose you again, I'm scared I'll lose you again
Oh! Ellin what can I do, there is nothing aside from you
Oh! Ellin what can I lose, there's nothing aside from you
Oh! Ellin what can I do, there is nothing aside from you
Oh! Ellin what can I lose, there's nothing aside, aside from you
Oh! Ellin what can I do, there is nothing aside from you
Oh! Ellin, what can I do, there's nothing aside from you
There is nothing aside from you
There's nothing aside from you
Oh! Ellin what can I do, there is nothing aside from you
Oh! Ellin, what can I lose, there is nothing aside from you
Oh! (Oh!) Ellin (Ellin) what can I do, there is nothing aside from you
Oh! (Oh!) Ellin (Ellin) what can I lose(What can I lose), there's nothing aside from you
Oh! (Oh!) Ellin (Ellin) what can I do(What can I do), there's nothing aside from you
Oh! (Oh!) Ellin (Ellin) what can I lose(What can I lose), there's nothing aside from you
Oh! Ellin what can I do, there is nothing aside from you
Oh! Ellin what can I do, there is nothing aside from you
I hate to say I'm starting again to try
To Get you off of my mind
I must admit, it's so hard to do, oh Ellin, with no you by my side
I have the chance to land on my own two feet and, keep my chin off the ground
But now, your gone, I beat my self up about it, it sucks without you around,
It sucks when your not around
Oh! Ellin what can I do, there is nothing aside from you
Oh! Ellin, what can I lose, there's nothing aside from you
Oh, oh, oh, oh ,oh, oh!!!
I trace your steps, but I get lost, i bet it's what you had in mind,
And can't you see, that all is not well,
Oh Ellin, not since you left me behind,
I waste away, its miserable here, its stupid, to even try to pretend,
Cause when, you slip, my mind i start to panic,
I'm scared to lose you again, I'm scared I'll lose you again
Oh! Ellin what can I do, there is nothing aside from you
Oh! Ellin what can I lose, there's nothing aside from you
Oh! Ellin what can I do, there is nothing aside from you
Oh! Ellin what can I lose, there's nothing aside, aside from you
Oh! Ellin what can I do, there is nothing aside from you
Oh! Ellin, what can I do, there's nothing aside from you
There is nothing aside from you
There's nothing aside from you
Oh! Ellin what can I do, there is nothing aside from you
Oh! Ellin, what can I lose, there is nothing aside from you
Oh! (Oh!) Ellin (Ellin) what can I do, there is nothing aside from you
Oh! (Oh!) Ellin (Ellin) what can I lose(What can I lose), there's nothing aside from you
Oh! (Oh!) Ellin (Ellin) what can I do(What can I do), there's nothing aside from you
Oh! (Oh!) Ellin (Ellin) what can I lose(What can I lose), there's nothing aside from you
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Best. Song. Ever.
I dont really care for the song. especially because its spelled 'ellin' rather than 'ellen' like we all know it should be spelled. but yeah this song reminds me of ellen
this song funkin rox man and I'm sure evrybody agrees with me....but i thinx this song means about i guy had a fight with his chik and after a fight she walked, and he was thinkin about her all the time. ROCK ON EVERYBODY!
Ok, guess what. It's not about A guy asking his ex-girlfriend back out. It's pretty much not obvious if thats what youthink It's about. But in actaullity, Its about a Girl who left her boyfriend. And He hasn't seen her. It kills him everyday, Maybe she died, but basically he cant find her. Obviously he is trying to move on with his life.- " i hate to say i'm starting again to try to get you off of my mind i must admit it's so hard to do oh Ellin! with no you by my side" Obviously Those lyrics suggest it. So yeah retard learn what you're talking about. Any who, Obviously it isn't easy for him to move on and he is wasting away and becoming deeply depressed without Ellin around.
isnt it spelt as oh! ellen with an e not an i??? but i luv this song its so wicked :D
it reminds me of my friend whose girlfriend cheated on him five times with five different guys and he got the chance to go out with this really great girl who is also a friend of mine but he couldn't forget his ex despite everything that she'd done. it made me real sad cos he's a great guy who doesn't deserve to be treated like shit. i really just want to tell him to get on with his life and take a chance with my friend but he still can't forget his Ellin... sadness
i think this is one of the best of the allbum foot in mouth disease
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