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 feel a little bit left of center
but then again we've all been there before
Every time I see a lost cause coming
it's nothing less, nothing more
Every time I get lost in paradise
I find a way to screw it up somehow
It's not the way it's supposed to be
but it'll do for now
When you're right, you're right
Everything else in my life just might be wrong
You're wrong all the time
So far so good 'cause no one knows I'm faking
I wish I could show you the toll it's taking
Sometimes I live as if there's no tomorrow
So far so good
I better find a way to cross my fingers
half the luck'll get me twice as far
I'm sick and tired of coming up for air
it shouldn't be this hard
Every little bit'll help I wonder
if it's enough or did I cross the line
The kitchen counter is a bad reminder of a better time
When you're right, you're right
Everything else in my life just might be wrong
You're wrong all the time
So far so good 'cause no one knows I'm faking
I wish I could show you the toll it's taking
Sometimes I live as if there's no tomorrow
So far so good
When you're right
Everything else you messed up just might be wrong
You're wrong all the time
So far so good 'cause no one knows I'm faking
I wish I could show you the toll it's taking
Sometimes I live as if there's no tomorrow
So far so good
but then again we've all been there before
Every time I see a lost cause coming
it's nothing less, nothing more
Every time I get lost in paradise
I find a way to screw it up somehow
It's not the way it's supposed to be
but it'll do for now
When you're right, you're right
Everything else in my life just might be wrong
You're wrong all the time
So far so good 'cause no one knows I'm faking
I wish I could show you the toll it's taking
Sometimes I live as if there's no tomorrow
So far so good
I better find a way to cross my fingers
half the luck'll get me twice as far
I'm sick and tired of coming up for air
it shouldn't be this hard
Every little bit'll help I wonder
if it's enough or did I cross the line
The kitchen counter is a bad reminder of a better time
When you're right, you're right
Everything else in my life just might be wrong
You're wrong all the time
So far so good 'cause no one knows I'm faking
I wish I could show you the toll it's taking
Sometimes I live as if there's no tomorrow
So far so good
When you're right
Everything else you messed up just might be wrong
You're wrong all the time
So far so good 'cause no one knows I'm faking
I wish I could show you the toll it's taking
Sometimes I live as if there's no tomorrow
So far so good
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Awesome song...
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okay...first of all as far as I'm concerned this song is definately not about drinking. well, I didn't get that out of it anyway. and second, the lyrics are screwed up. the chorus is...
So far so good 'cause no one knows I'm faking I wish I could show you the toll it's taking Sometimes I live as if there's no tomorrow So far so good
I think this song is about how when everything is going good for him, probably with a girl, things get messed up...("everytime I get lost in paradise I find a way to screw it up somehow ") and nobody can really see how much what's going wrong is affecting him. maybe the whole thinking it was about drinking thing came from the mess up in the lyrics and the line about the kitchen counter...but I think that line is reffering to maybe stuff he did with a girl on the kitchen counter and it reminds him of it...or I could be totally wrong...it's known to happen.. :)
Ian Thornley was the lead singer/guitarist for Big Wreck before they broke up. Like many of Big Wreck's songs, this one is again about that girl that got away.
The kitchen counter line refers to him remembering the good times with the girl... making love in all the fun places that he can now not help but see everywhere.
true .. i wonder if he ever dropped her ass on the stove by accident. ouch. anyway you're right. it's pretty straightforward.
who the hell could get 'noone knows i'm drinkin', that doesnt even make sence.....i always thought it was 'noone knows im thinking'...but, meh. great song. yay for thorley.
it really is a awesome song, governer!
--Corrected Lyrics--
I feel a little bit left of center but then again, we've all been there before everytime I see a lost cause coming it's nothing less, nothing more everytime I get lost in paradise I find a way to screw it up somehow Either way it's not supposed to be but it'll do for now
When you're right, you're right everything else in my life just me be wrong, you're wrong All the time
So Far So Good Cause no one knows im faking I wish I could Show you the toll its taking Sometimes I live as if theres no tomorrow So far so good
I better find a way to cross my fingers half the luck will get me twice as far I'm sick and tired of coming up for air it shouldn't be this hard (be this hard) every little bit will help, I wonder if its enough or did I cross the line? the kitchen counter is a bad reminder of a better time
When you're right, you're right everything else in my life just me be wrong, you're wrong All the time
So Far So Good Cause no one knows im faking I wish I could Show you the toll its taking Sometimes I live as if theres no tomorrow So far so good
When you're right. Everything else you messed up just might be wrong, you're wrong All the time
So Far So Good Cause no one knows im faking I wish I could Show you the toll its taking Sometimes I live as if theres no tomorrow So far so good
So Far So Good Cause no one knows im faking I wish I could Show you the toll its taking Sometimes I live as if theres no tomorrow So far so good
so far not so good. cuz they know what im thinking. those bastards!
I ... positively can not believe no one has said it so far: this song is about addiction, pure and simple. Drug addiction, if you so fancy, but addiction in general.
"So far, so good, 'cause no one knows I'm taking."
Addicts are generally ashamed to admit they are addicted, and are too ashamed to tell other people. He feels good that his problem hasn't become out of control. As an addict, I can not tell you how much these lyrics resonate with me. Especially this bit: "When you're right, you're right everything else in my life just me be wrong, you're wrong All the time"
You know what you're doing is wrong, but at the moment it feels so right that everything in the world MUST be wrong. And afterward ... soon after, the sobering realization of how WRONG this all is, and then depression sets in, and then you feel yourself falling. Falling out of the high, and falling, worse yet, into reality. You are shit and all you've done is shit. Nothing has ever gone right.
So far so good though, you're not at 0.0 yet.