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"
Here come the nightingales
Or could it be the mockingbird
They're at my windowsill
They flew in as soon as they heard
enter the doctor and the nurse
Say my conditions getting worse
They take my pulse and shake their heads
They recommend I stay in bed
They say you are my condition
Your are indecision
You, what is wrong with you?
You say you love me but you don't love me
You say you hate me but you don't hate me
You say you'd leave me but you can't leave me
Because you love me
What's it gonna be
What is wrong with you
Is what is wrong with me
Here goes nothing
I just swallowed the pill
The room's spinning out of control
Although I'm lying still
And those mockingbirds
They're hovering above
They're talking back and forth about the trouble with our love
You say you love me but you don't love me
You say you hate me but you don't hate me
You say you'd leave me but you can't leave me
Because you love me
What's it gonna be
What is wrong with you
Oh my God
I think I've actually lost the plot
Oh my God
My brain is fried and my nerves are shot
And why not
You say control me no don't control me
You say hold me no don't hold me
You say you'd marry me
But you can't marry me
Because you love me but you don't love me
Because you hate me but you don't hate me
Because you'd leave me but you can't leave me
Here come the mockingbirds
You say you love me but you don't love me
You say you need me but you don't need me
You sat you'd leave me but you can't leave me
Because you love me
What's it gonna be
What is wrong with you
Is what is wrong with me
Or could it be the mockingbird
They're at my windowsill
They flew in as soon as they heard
enter the doctor and the nurse
Say my conditions getting worse
They take my pulse and shake their heads
They recommend I stay in bed
They say you are my condition
Your are indecision
You, what is wrong with you?
You say you love me but you don't love me
You say you hate me but you don't hate me
You say you'd leave me but you can't leave me
Because you love me
What's it gonna be
What is wrong with you
Is what is wrong with me
Here goes nothing
I just swallowed the pill
The room's spinning out of control
Although I'm lying still
And those mockingbirds
They're hovering above
They're talking back and forth about the trouble with our love
You say you love me but you don't love me
You say you hate me but you don't hate me
You say you'd leave me but you can't leave me
Because you love me
What's it gonna be
What is wrong with you
Oh my God
I think I've actually lost the plot
Oh my God
My brain is fried and my nerves are shot
And why not
You say control me no don't control me
You say hold me no don't hold me
You say you'd marry me
But you can't marry me
Because you love me but you don't love me
Because you hate me but you don't hate me
Because you'd leave me but you can't leave me
Here come the mockingbirds
You say you love me but you don't love me
You say you need me but you don't need me
You sat you'd leave me but you can't leave me
Because you love me
What's it gonna be
What is wrong with you
Is what is wrong with me
Lyrics submitted by stoolhardy
Mockingbird Lyrics as written by Steve Krikorian Adam Cohen
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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