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"
Expected so much more
Than a lonely silence
I adored you before
Now I dream at an expense
I see it wasn't worth it
Now I see a better future
With someone else
Better than you
I finally found someone that I really really like
We go and watch the sunset
Together every night
We lie there and gaze at
The beautiful stars
He makes me forget about
All of my scars
Can I ask you a question
If it's not too much to ask
How could you take it from me
And never give it back
Every time I see you
I just don't care
The pictures of the past
Are full of despair
Someone I think I can trust
I finally found someone that I really really like
We go and watch the sunset
Together every night
We lie there and gaze at
The beautiful stars
He makes me forget about
All of my scars
We lie there and gaze at
The beautiful stars
He makes me forget about
All of my scars
Than a lonely silence
I adored you before
Now I dream at an expense
I see it wasn't worth it
Now I see a better future
With someone else
Better than you
I finally found someone that I really really like
We go and watch the sunset
Together every night
We lie there and gaze at
The beautiful stars
He makes me forget about
All of my scars
Can I ask you a question
If it's not too much to ask
How could you take it from me
And never give it back
Every time I see you
I just don't care
The pictures of the past
Are full of despair
Someone I think I can trust
I finally found someone that I really really like
We go and watch the sunset
Together every night
We lie there and gaze at
The beautiful stars
He makes me forget about
All of my scars
We lie there and gaze at
The beautiful stars
He makes me forget about
All of my scars
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This song is so damn powerful.
When I'm alone in my car, I get such a charge from screaming along to:
You found something so good It's drawing trouble on your liiiiiiiife And when you want something so good It's hard to focus on what's riiiiiiight!!!!!!
Because it's TRUE
I'm at work right now and just had a "get me the heck out of this office this moment and into my car" moment as this song started playing. It's so powerful, so intense that it begs to be shouted along with.
cant believe no ones comented on this. i used to dislike the frames an incredible amount but "burn the maps" is phenomanal.
i never knew about the frames before, but i agree, burn the maps is an awesome cd
i love the "ah come on" bit! pure dublinish!
prolly one of the best bands in the history of the world that no one even know exists.
I think this song is bootyful.
i agree.
when i first heard them on the carson daly show, i was surprised that they haven't really broken mainstream after being around so long.
i love this song, it has a lot of anger and power.
Glen says he wrote this song to himself. That one day he looked in the mirror, feeling really low, and said to himself "That's it, I'm back where I belong". The song was born out of that feeling.
It's about Glen's desire to get on, and to be successful, and to do well. But the price he's had to pay, and has to pay.
Heard this played at the end of Life - episode 11 "Dig a hole, fill it up" (part2). It was a fantastic ep (it also featured Down Boy by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs which made me Squeee!), and a fantastic show and it's now introduced me to a song I'm really enjoying... the song fit very well I thought, and at first I thought I might like it only in the context of the ep, but.... no its just a really good song. It's very heartfelt and powerful; I'm liking it very much right now :D
To me this song is about someone who went down a bad path and is trying to recover while watching a friend or loved one going down a similar path.And while trying to prevent him or her, they realise how much they miss that road themselves. Flirting with danger a bit maybe ? I dont know..first impression I got.
To me anyway, but I agree with niteflite on glens meaning - I read that too.