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"
It's amazing what you'll find
When you just open your eyes
Sometimes love can leave you blind
But still you try to cover all the lies
And ignore all the signs
Sometimes love can leave you blind
What I thought was a certainty
Has left me spinning in circles again
Comparing to the last time
That we had spoke it seems to
Me that you're not happy
Like you used to be
To you I'm like a flavor that
Wouldn't last you took one bite
Than spat me out real fast
And now this mark remains
And will never ever go away
When you just open your eyes
Sometimes love can leave you blind
But still you try to cover all the lies
And ignore all the signs
Sometimes love can leave you blind
What I thought was a certainty
Has left me spinning in circles again
Comparing to the last time
That we had spoke it seems to
Me that you're not happy
Like you used to be
To you I'm like a flavor that
Wouldn't last you took one bite
Than spat me out real fast
And now this mark remains
And will never ever go away
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I Liked You Better Before You Were Naked on the Internet Lyrics as written by James Darrell Hargrove Derek Alan Bloom
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I think this song is awesome and way to short. It's got some like innovative drum and bass rhythm. Its pretty obvious what its about, A guy falls in love with a girl head over heels and she leaves really fast. Love does suck sometimes.
Yeah I agree. This song rocks. It has that DnB feel. The song is short because that's how long their relationship lasted.
DnB?
What a beautiful song - it covers all the aspects of a true breakup and how it feels to be dropped. The whole song has a great rhythm to it and is definitely one of my favorites by FFTL. I wonder if the title has any significane with the song and the girl? "I Liked You Better Before You Were Naked on the Internet" sounds a bit over exaggerated.
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its amazing and it is deffintely easy to relate to. Too bad its so short :(
its amazing and it is deffintely easy to relate to. Too bad its so short :(
kick ass song i like the drums in the intro
hey dudes guy the drumming is the same thru the whole song ^o) but yea i looked at the name of this song and yea wtf duz the title have 2 do with this song:S:S:S but yea this song is amazing but i can totally relate to "but still you try to cover all the lies and ignore all the signs" cuz of reasons but yea sick song FFTL is my favourite band
I'm late to comment on this... :( I saw these guys last month live, and I must say their live peformance is very entertaining, but they tend to butcher their solos. But regardless of that, this song is my favourite on the album. I'd have to agree that the song is short, just like the relationship the song is about. Probablly another romance gone sour due to the other person fucking it up. Lovely none the less.
I think this song is amazing.
For all of you who are saying it's too short, I think that adds to the majesty of it. This is my second favorite FFTL song, and it's great that it accomplishes so much in such a short time. Their titles tend to be a bit cryptic and probably have some meaning only to the band.
The world may never know. ;D