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"
As soon as we arrived I expressed my concern,
I might have known I should, should have learned,
Faded photos, a fool at each turn,
It seemed to me this trip, that we have been burned.
Find me some time, to find a way out of here,
I'd be inclined to walk my way home,
Find me a plane, I'll fly my way out of here,
We were so blind to come here at all.
Along came insomnia,
As if this week wasn't dragging on enough,
One might reflect upon a me
It was such a relief to leave this ride on and on.
Find me some time, to find away out of here,
I'd be inclined to walk my way home,
Find me a plane, I'll fly my way out of here,
We were so blind to come here at all.
No way out
No way out
No way out for me, and the girl.
Find me some time, to find away out of here,
I'd be inclined to walk my way home,
Find me a plane, I'll fly my way out of here,
We were so blind to come here at all.
Find me some time, to find away out of here,
I'd be inclined to walk my way home,
Buy me a plane and I'll fly my way outta here,
We were so blind.
I might have known I should, should have learned,
Faded photos, a fool at each turn,
It seemed to me this trip, that we have been burned.
Find me some time, to find a way out of here,
I'd be inclined to walk my way home,
Find me a plane, I'll fly my way out of here,
We were so blind to come here at all.
Along came insomnia,
As if this week wasn't dragging on enough,
One might reflect upon a me
It was such a relief to leave this ride on and on.
Find me some time, to find away out of here,
I'd be inclined to walk my way home,
Find me a plane, I'll fly my way out of here,
We were so blind to come here at all.
No way out
No way out
No way out for me, and the girl.
Find me some time, to find away out of here,
I'd be inclined to walk my way home,
Find me a plane, I'll fly my way out of here,
We were so blind to come here at all.
Find me some time, to find away out of here,
I'd be inclined to walk my way home,
Buy me a plane and I'll fly my way outta here,
We were so blind.
Lyrics submitted by planetearth
Do One Lyrics as written by Dajon Everett Benjamin Joseph Ottewell
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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As soon as we arrived I expressed my concern I might have known I should, should have learned (Was being taken into the drug scene and was worried)
Find me some time, to find a way out of here I'd be inclined to walk my way home Find me a plane, I'll fly my way out of here We were so blind to come here at all (Wants to get out, any way possible)
Along came insomnia As if this week wasn't dragging on enough (This is him coming down from herion I'd imagine, not being able to sleep and having the days dragging out too)
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How good is this song? Powerful, in your face.. love listening to it at any time of the day.
I agree it's probably about drugs. "this trip"- tripping on acid or mushrooms, "burned", he smoked too much pot and is burnt out...cocaine causes insomnia but so can the other drugs. It is possible he made friends with drug addicts so he was stuck with them. "Do One" probably means "try one of these drugs". Or maybe it's just a sucky relationship with a girl, with obligation trapping them both in.
Actually this song is about a vacation gone wrong, and wanting to get away from the wretched place. The drummer wrote this one.
actually, i believe dajon wrote most of this song. he's the "unofficial" member who plays keyboard and all sorts of fun percussion instruments.
yeah, i'm not thinkin its about drugs...its about just wanting to break fee, to just leave and never come back.