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"
Hey pretty, what's on your mind
Nothing here, an endless night
I'm fed up and sick, tired of me
My thin boy voice ruins everything
Oh sweetheart, don't say such things
We don't know who's listening
Don't talk, don't smile
Just silently walk on by
My Emily says "Oh ladd
What has she done
To my darling innocent boy,
My favorite late night someone"
I wish you were here to kiss me
And scream "Damnit ladd I need you back"
Emily rolls over in bed and says
"It is really so bad?"
Hey pretty are you secretly sad?
Questions I dare not ask
I'm fed up and sick, tired of this
Such simple things I miss
Oh sweetheart don't say such things
We don't know who's listening
The only thing that can fill this gap
Is the one who doesn't want me back
My Emily says "Oh ladd
How long can this last"
As long as it takes to get that attention
So safe at last
I wish you were here to hold me
And scream "Damnit ladd I need you back"
Emily rolls over in bed and says
"You don't want that"
So here's my advice to you
This should've turned out different
But it didn't, so get over it
But don't you find it reassuring
That one consolation growing
My darling boy, it won't snow where she is going.
Nothing here, an endless night
I'm fed up and sick, tired of me
My thin boy voice ruins everything
Oh sweetheart, don't say such things
We don't know who's listening
Don't talk, don't smile
Just silently walk on by
My Emily says "Oh ladd
What has she done
To my darling innocent boy,
My favorite late night someone"
I wish you were here to kiss me
And scream "Damnit ladd I need you back"
Emily rolls over in bed and says
"It is really so bad?"
Hey pretty are you secretly sad?
Questions I dare not ask
I'm fed up and sick, tired of this
Such simple things I miss
Oh sweetheart don't say such things
We don't know who's listening
The only thing that can fill this gap
Is the one who doesn't want me back
My Emily says "Oh ladd
How long can this last"
As long as it takes to get that attention
So safe at last
I wish you were here to hold me
And scream "Damnit ladd I need you back"
Emily rolls over in bed and says
"You don't want that"
So here's my advice to you
This should've turned out different
But it didn't, so get over it
But don't you find it reassuring
That one consolation growing
My darling boy, it won't snow where she is going.
Lyrics submitted by LarsFrederiksen
Conversations With Emily Lyrics as written by Justin Valenti Gabriel James Looker
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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