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"
I remember we were standing on the street in the rain
Downtown where none of us will ever afford to live again
You were looking for your cigarettes in your purse and you cursed
And I fell in love with the sound of that obscene and lovely word
You were older you were vicious
I was younger and not suspicious
That I was being fucked around
I was I was I was I was I don’t want to talk about it now
Unless I see my face ten years don’t seem like a long time
Well I’m older now than you were then
When I was your younger man
I remember we were running from whoever you left before me
I remember being dumb and drunk and happy
I remember you squinting as the smoke got in your eyes
And being IDed following you into bars while you stalked other guys
Until I see my face ten years don’t seem like such a long time
But I’m older now than you were then
When I, when I – I …
Ba da ba da ba da ba da ba da ba
Ba da ba da ba da ba da ba ba
Ooohhh
Everyone said it would end badly
It took a while but it did
And I hung my head sadly
And I got used to it
I’ll see you at some funeral
I’ve got a few in mind
We’ll be fighting but I’ll be smiling
Because I’ll remember the time
When I saw your face I thought ten years is such a long time
Well I’m older now than you were then
When I, when I…
when i saw your face and thought ten years ain't such a long time…
Well I’m older now than you were then
When I was your younger man, your younger, oh your younger man
your younger man, your younger, oh your younger man
Downtown where none of us will ever afford to live again
You were looking for your cigarettes in your purse and you cursed
And I fell in love with the sound of that obscene and lovely word
You were older you were vicious
I was younger and not suspicious
That I was being fucked around
I was I was I was I was I don’t want to talk about it now
Unless I see my face ten years don’t seem like a long time
Well I’m older now than you were then
When I was your younger man
I remember we were running from whoever you left before me
I remember being dumb and drunk and happy
I remember you squinting as the smoke got in your eyes
And being IDed following you into bars while you stalked other guys
Until I see my face ten years don’t seem like such a long time
But I’m older now than you were then
When I, when I – I …
Ba da ba da ba da ba da ba da ba
Ba da ba da ba da ba da ba ba
Ooohhh
Everyone said it would end badly
It took a while but it did
And I hung my head sadly
And I got used to it
I’ll see you at some funeral
I’ve got a few in mind
We’ll be fighting but I’ll be smiling
Because I’ll remember the time
When I saw your face I thought ten years is such a long time
Well I’m older now than you were then
When I, when I…
when i saw your face and thought ten years ain't such a long time…
Well I’m older now than you were then
When I was your younger man, your younger, oh your younger man
your younger man, your younger, oh your younger man
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Pretty self explanitory. Narrator's in a relationship with an older woman, while he's barely a man. It ends badly. and then he becomes older than she was at the time they were together and realizes that everyone who told him that dating an older woman wasn't a good idea was probably right.
The end.
=)
LOL. It's OK for adult men to date big children who could be their daughters but not ok for adult men to date older women. Sorry for your loss. Thankfully you will never know what you are missing...
LOL...nothin' has changed since 2006 according to that user name ;)