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"
In you I see further
Can it last forever?
Identify your patients, XY configurations
Words are lost in your eyes
One thought inside my heart
Drop addicts in the mixture, falcons have blown the fixture
Think of me as days pass us by
Shards of glass
Skies of gold
Steal my breath
Blood runs cold
Violet waves
Oceans blue
All my love
Lost in you
In you I see further
Can it last forever?
Sinkhole that we would frequent
White heels safe from extinction
Words are lost in your eyes
One thought inside my heart
I said that I don't need you, but I'm a liar, I swear I do, I do
Strip away
Vanity
I do
Just as you
Consume me
I do
Broken smile
Starless sky
I do
Save it all
Say goodbye
You're out in left field, and lacking interest
You fight the boredom but it makes no difference
Your mental health kid, that's what's in question
Keep acting obscure, we'll keep them guessing
The moment ideas are conceived
They'll be out of touch, obsolete
They're faking champions hand picked
And all the fights have been fixed
You wake to suffer through the day
Trade a dream for the pay
Well here's the fact I hope it sticks
You're just alive out of habit
Shards of glass
Skies of gold
Steal my breath
Blood runs cold
Violet waves
Oceans blue
All my love
Lost in you
Strip away
Part of me
Just as you consume me
Broken smile
Starless sky
End it all
Say good-bye
Think of me as I say good-bye
Can it last forever?
Identify your patients, XY configurations
Words are lost in your eyes
One thought inside my heart
Drop addicts in the mixture, falcons have blown the fixture
Think of me as days pass us by
Shards of glass
Skies of gold
Steal my breath
Blood runs cold
Violet waves
Oceans blue
All my love
Lost in you
In you I see further
Can it last forever?
Sinkhole that we would frequent
White heels safe from extinction
Words are lost in your eyes
One thought inside my heart
I said that I don't need you, but I'm a liar, I swear I do, I do
Strip away
Vanity
I do
Just as you
Consume me
I do
Broken smile
Starless sky
I do
Save it all
Say goodbye
You're out in left field, and lacking interest
You fight the boredom but it makes no difference
Your mental health kid, that's what's in question
Keep acting obscure, we'll keep them guessing
The moment ideas are conceived
They'll be out of touch, obsolete
They're faking champions hand picked
And all the fights have been fixed
You wake to suffer through the day
Trade a dream for the pay
Well here's the fact I hope it sticks
You're just alive out of habit
Shards of glass
Skies of gold
Steal my breath
Blood runs cold
Violet waves
Oceans blue
All my love
Lost in you
Strip away
Part of me
Just as you consume me
Broken smile
Starless sky
End it all
Say good-bye
Think of me as I say good-bye
Lyrics submitted by ChokingDownEmbers
Alive Out of Habit Lyrics as written by Brian Mcternan Brian Deneeve
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Fran's line: "I said that I don't need you, BUT I'M A LIAR! I SWEAR I DO! I DO!" line speaks for itself, but it's about wanting someone back.
When it breaks down and Fran sing's, it's about how corrupted the world is and how nobody cares about anything but money.
"You wake to suffer through the day, Trade a dream for the pay, Well here's the fact I hope it sticks, You're just alive out of habit"
That's one of the most powerful things I've ever heard...truly amazing