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"
By your look should I have something to say?
Well the question wasn't that in a day and
I took some time to mess up my life and
Its almost perfect let me get this right
We were different added together and
Congratulations I guess you're always right
Well I'm sorry that I ever tried
What happened to the world we knew?
We were so much better than
Thisâ?¦.
Memories destroyed by disease
And they're buried under letters full of words
You never meant to say
The reaction was greater than the screen
We were the difference added together and
Congratulations I guess you're always right
Well I'm sorry that I ever tried
What happened to the world we knew?
We were so much better than this
I didn't feel like this the whole time
But it didn't help when you made your predictions, yeah
We crossed this bridge, crossed it sometime ago
But I didn't know, I didn't know you would move on
Congratulations I guess you're always right
Well I'm sorry that I ever tried
What happened to the world we knew?
We were so much better than this
So much better than
Congratulations I guess you're always right (you're always right)
Well I'm sorry that I ever tried
What happened to the world we knew?
We were so much better than this
So much better than this (this)
So much better than this
Well the question wasn't that in a day and
I took some time to mess up my life and
Its almost perfect let me get this right
We were different added together and
Congratulations I guess you're always right
Well I'm sorry that I ever tried
What happened to the world we knew?
We were so much better than
Thisâ?¦.
Memories destroyed by disease
And they're buried under letters full of words
You never meant to say
The reaction was greater than the screen
We were the difference added together and
Congratulations I guess you're always right
Well I'm sorry that I ever tried
What happened to the world we knew?
We were so much better than this
I didn't feel like this the whole time
But it didn't help when you made your predictions, yeah
We crossed this bridge, crossed it sometime ago
But I didn't know, I didn't know you would move on
Congratulations I guess you're always right
Well I'm sorry that I ever tried
What happened to the world we knew?
We were so much better than this
So much better than
Congratulations I guess you're always right (you're always right)
Well I'm sorry that I ever tried
What happened to the world we knew?
We were so much better than this
So much better than this (this)
So much better than this
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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Great version of a great song,
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I have no idea, but its one of my favorite songs on Action.... What the hell am i talkin about? Theyre all my favorite =P
The words are wrong...In the first stanza it's not "well the question wasn't in that day..." That doesn't make sense...It's "confusion wasn't built in a day...I don't mean to be a witch but it bothers me every time I'm here.
this song is so self-explanitory, a guy n a girl broke up, n he's sayin how she alwayz thought she was right about everything and it's not the way it was when they were first 2gether, I mean seriously if u read the lyrics it's not hard 2 figure out but w/e
he thinks thin have changed between them and he thinks about how they used to be so much better than what they are now
this is the only song i really like by them, its good. congratulations, i guess your always right...great line. about relationships and such