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"
Hello, how ya doing?
what's it like to ruin all my self esteem?
let me blow off some steam
for five years I've waited, so why
am I jaded to get back at you?
what makes it cool?
when you act like nothing ever happened
I feel like I should feel bad,
but I can't like someone who thought
they're the only one that mattered,
I hope that you're flattered
cause you broke this down,
the best thing that you never had
and it seems like a loss somehow my
heart got lost on the way to my head
and my brain cells are dead, and the
craziness
shows, now I start to go when
the green turns to red and I should be
dead
when you act like nothing ever happened,
I feel like I should feel bad,
but I can't like someone who thought
they're the only one that mattered while
my heart got shattered like romantic roadkill
my heart is all splattered your ego got
fatter and I hope that you're flattered,
cause you broke this down,
you broke this down,
the best thing that you never had
like the toilet seat never got lifted
and I pissed on your confidence when you
weren't around, how can that be?
don't turn this around, you were the one
who drove my ass right to the ground
when you act like nothing ever happened
I feel like I should feel bad, and I can't like
someone who thought they're the only
one that mattered while my heart got
shattered like romantic roadkill my heart
is all splattered your ego got fatter and I
hope that you're flattered
cause you broke this down,
you broke this down,
the best thing, the best thing
the best thing that you never had
you never had...
what's it like to ruin all my self esteem?
let me blow off some steam
for five years I've waited, so why
am I jaded to get back at you?
what makes it cool?
when you act like nothing ever happened
I feel like I should feel bad,
but I can't like someone who thought
they're the only one that mattered,
I hope that you're flattered
cause you broke this down,
the best thing that you never had
and it seems like a loss somehow my
heart got lost on the way to my head
and my brain cells are dead, and the
craziness
shows, now I start to go when
the green turns to red and I should be
dead
when you act like nothing ever happened,
I feel like I should feel bad,
but I can't like someone who thought
they're the only one that mattered while
my heart got shattered like romantic roadkill
my heart is all splattered your ego got
fatter and I hope that you're flattered,
cause you broke this down,
you broke this down,
the best thing that you never had
like the toilet seat never got lifted
and I pissed on your confidence when you
weren't around, how can that be?
don't turn this around, you were the one
who drove my ass right to the ground
when you act like nothing ever happened
I feel like I should feel bad, and I can't like
someone who thought they're the only
one that mattered while my heart got
shattered like romantic roadkill my heart
is all splattered your ego got fatter and I
hope that you're flattered
cause you broke this down,
you broke this down,
the best thing, the best thing
the best thing that you never had
you never had...
Lyrics submitted by BlueAndStarry
Best Thing You Never Had Lyrics as written by Butch Walker
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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OMG! i can't believe there isn't any comments on this fab song. Well this song as u can tell is awesome. The first time i heard Butch Walker was when he was the opening act for Avril Lavigne and when he started playin, me and my friend knew that he was awesome (and hott!! LoL)
Avril Lavigne is crap. I don't know why anyone would want to go to a concert of hers.
But, I digress. Butch Walker is the man.
my friend took me to go see Avril for my birthday.. it was kinda just her excuse to go see, but the real present was being introduced to butch's music! this song is awesome.. i heart it.
BUT BUTCH SIGNED MY SHOE! I HAVENT WORN IT SINCE!
Butch Walker is amazing, and i think this song is about him being rejected by a girl along time ago and now its coming back to haunt her. The first is my favorite.
i recently hooked up with this lad and after that he didnt wnt 2 no me nd jus acted like such a playa nd pretened it neva happened! the line: And your ego got fatter - he jus saw me as another conquest when i thort it ment more than that!
Yeh, you don't even need to try and translate this song because its so 'effing good. I can't believe only 6 people before me have posted on this.
yea this song is just ace. i think its basically about someone realizing that someone really F-ed up something and realizing that it was the best they over had.
I can relate, i would love to tell this girl the same thing Butch is saying. Butch Rocks...Hell yea. ooohh ya, he is awesome in concert.
I think that it means this: Hello, how you doing? What's it like to ruin all my self-esteem? Let me blow off some steam For five years I waited, so why am I jaded to get back at you? What it makes it cool SHE LEFT HIM, AND HE STILLLOVING HER, AND HE HAS WAITED FOR 5 YEARS
When you act like nothing ever happened I feel like I should feel bad But I can't like someone who thought they're the only one that mattered I hope that you're flattered 'Cause you broke this down The best thing that you never had SHE SEES HIM AND SHE ACTS LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED, LIKE THEY NEVER KNEW EACH OTHER, SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE AND SHE WAS VERY SELFISH AND SHE DESTROY THE REALTIONSHIP BUT HE WAS THE BEST THAT EVER HAPPENED TO HER AND HE LOVES HER
I think that it means this: Hello, how you doing? What's it like to ruin all my self-esteem? Let me blow off some steam For five years I waited, so why am I jaded to get back at you? What it makes it cool SHE LEFT HIM, AND HE STILLLOVING HER, AND HE HAS WAITED FOR 5 YEARS
When you act like nothing ever happened I feel like I should feel bad But I can't like someone who thought they're the only one that mattered I hope that you're flattered 'Cause you broke this down The best thing that you never had SHE SEES HIM AND SHE ACTS LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED, LIKE THEY NEVER KNEW EACH OTHER, SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE AND SHE WAS VERY SELFISH AND SHE DESTROY THE REALTIONSHIP BUT HE WAS THE BEST THAT EVER HAPPENED TO HER AND HE LOVES HER