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"
You wouldn’t know it to look at me,
but I’m a superhero
I’ve got x-ray vision and everything
My frail frame belies my strength
I can lift tall buildings
with one hand tied behind my back
But the morning after each episode
I wake up at home, alone
Despite my mediocre looks,
I’m daily dared by damsels
to fight international crime
In the end I always win the day –
I save the world, I get my girl
But the morning after each episode
I wake up at home, alone
The comfort of knowing that
I’ve saved you all wears thin
My superhuman efforts largely go unrewarded
The government won’t take my phone calls
On my days off I hang around the centre of town,
but I don’t get stopped
But the morning after each episode
I wake up at home, alone
The comfort of knowing that
I’ve saved you all wears thin
The day after each episode
I wake up and wish that I
wouldn’t be expected to get out of bed and help mankind
I’d comb my hair a little differently and put on some glasses,
find somewhere to hide,
tell the United Nations they’ve got the wrong number and I’d live a quiet life
but I’m a superhero
I’ve got x-ray vision and everything
My frail frame belies my strength
I can lift tall buildings
with one hand tied behind my back
But the morning after each episode
I wake up at home, alone
Despite my mediocre looks,
I’m daily dared by damsels
to fight international crime
In the end I always win the day –
I save the world, I get my girl
But the morning after each episode
I wake up at home, alone
The comfort of knowing that
I’ve saved you all wears thin
My superhuman efforts largely go unrewarded
The government won’t take my phone calls
On my days off I hang around the centre of town,
but I don’t get stopped
But the morning after each episode
I wake up at home, alone
The comfort of knowing that
I’ve saved you all wears thin
The day after each episode
I wake up and wish that I
wouldn’t be expected to get out of bed and help mankind
I’d comb my hair a little differently and put on some glasses,
find somewhere to hide,
tell the United Nations they’ve got the wrong number and I’d live a quiet life
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Hmm, I love this song. It has a distinct sense of melancholy about it. I dunno about the meaning. Maybe Frank is comparing being in a touring band to being a superhero. He works and works in this band and yet they still remain largly ignored by music press and stuff. He's not asking for number one singles, just a smidge of recognition. And then maybe, sometimes he's sick of doing the whole touring thing and just wants a quiet life. I dunno, if this is the actual meaning, but it's just the impression I get.
Also, I think I read somewhere that Margot Kidder is bi-polar. So maybe Frank is saying that being in a band and then going about 'normal' life feels a bit bi-polar and that they are two separate personalities in one.
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It's about mental health, and how society sees people who have mental health issues as weak, whereas they're some of the strongest people around. It plays with Margot Kidder's bi-polar and likens her episodes (I assume manic) of her being a super hero. People going through manic episodes of bi-polar can be hyper-focussed on achieving a certain goal (although not always a constructive one) which could be seen as a 'superhuman effort' which 'largely goes unrewarded'.
I really love this song, there's so many interpretations but I think that is it.