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"
Come on baby
Come on girl
Come on baby
Come on girl
I love you baby
I love you now
I love you baby
I love you now
Look at us, were beautiful
All the people push and pull
But let's just go out and ride
Talk about the things we try
Look at us, were beautiful
All the people push and pull but
They'll never get inside
We've got too much to hide
Come on baby
Come on girl
Come on baby
Come on girl
I love you baby
I love you now
I love you baby
I love you now
Look at us, we're beautiful
All the people push and pull but
Let's just go out and ride
Talk about the things we try
Look at us, we're beautiful
All the people push and pull but
They'll never get inside
We've got too much to hide
Look at us, we're beautiful
All the people push and pull but
Let's just go out and ride
Talk about the things we try
Look at us, we're beautiful
All the people push and pull but
They'll never get inside
We've got too much to hide
Look at us we're beautiful [Repeat x16]
Come on girl
Come on baby
Come on girl
I love you baby
I love you now
I love you baby
I love you now
Look at us, were beautiful
All the people push and pull
But let's just go out and ride
Talk about the things we try
Look at us, were beautiful
All the people push and pull but
They'll never get inside
We've got too much to hide
Come on baby
Come on girl
Come on baby
Come on girl
I love you baby
I love you now
I love you baby
I love you now
Look at us, we're beautiful
All the people push and pull but
Let's just go out and ride
Talk about the things we try
Look at us, we're beautiful
All the people push and pull but
They'll never get inside
We've got too much to hide
Look at us, we're beautiful
All the people push and pull but
Let's just go out and ride
Talk about the things we try
Look at us, we're beautiful
All the people push and pull but
They'll never get inside
We've got too much to hide
Look at us we're beautiful [Repeat x16]
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1) I think this song basically means be happy with your own relationships, don't worry about what others say or judge.
or 2) It could be about the shallowness of certain figures who are more concerned with looks.
I tend to think it's more of 1.
I really like this song....I saw the music video this morning..and i was like ahh shit, what is this? it's crazy....but i love it. maybe it's everyone's beautiful somewhere, outside inside, good intentions and shit, but they're hiding it...i dunno...all i know it I LIKE IT!
music video!!!! SWEET
It's about being in love, even if no one agrees with your relationship.
The music video had me petrified. It showed couples "changin' it up," and one particular (sp?) scene had me scared for my own relationship. Good song, but don't watch the video--period.
I think it is about not letting other people get in your relationship
I think this song is making fun of the "beautiful" people in hollywood who crave attention yet they feel ugly inside.
it's about stoners.
it's a great song but whoa that was a weird video, forest animals at a key party. That whole idea gets me really freaked out. I don't really get the connection of key parties and being ok with yourself or whatever. this song was in the devil wears prada when they're at the benefit and you know wearing loads of makeup and expensive clothes, but being really sad and having low self esteem, which was what the whole movie was pretty much about. I thought that's what the song was about until about 5 minutes ago. I really have no idea what it's about, but can say pretty strongly that I don't think it's about being a druggie