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"
Someone always gets their hearts stomped to the ground
And this is what I think every time I look around
I never thought that this would happen to me
I never thought that I'll end up this way
And now that you're through with me
Don't know what to do with me
I guess I'm my own again
Like I'm some kind of enemy
Never a friend to me
Remember when you used to say
These things will always be this way
Why don't you, break my heart
Watch me fall apart you see
I'm falling apart, look what you're doing to me
Now I'm trying to get my heart up off the ground
My confidence is gone
Happiness can not be found
So look what you did to me
You got the best of me
And now I'm stuck with all the rest
It will never be the same
Why don't you, break my heart
Watch me fall apart you see
I'm falling apart, look what you're doing to me
Break my heart
Watch me fall apart you see
I'm falling apart, look what you're doing to me
All I ever wanted
Has left me standing here alone
It started with you and ended with me
All I ever needed
I had it with you in my arms
It started with you and ended with me
Break my heart
Watch me fall apart you see
I'm falling apart, look what you're doing to me
Why don't you, break my heart
Watch me fall apart you see
I'm falling apart, look what you're doing to me
Why don't you, break my heart
Watch me fall apart you see
I'm falling apart, look what you're doing to me
Why don't you, break my heart
Break my heart
Break my heart
Break my heart
Break my heart
Break my heart
Break my heart
And this is what I think every time I look around
I never thought that this would happen to me
I never thought that I'll end up this way
And now that you're through with me
Don't know what to do with me
I guess I'm my own again
Like I'm some kind of enemy
Never a friend to me
Remember when you used to say
These things will always be this way
Why don't you, break my heart
Watch me fall apart you see
I'm falling apart, look what you're doing to me
Now I'm trying to get my heart up off the ground
My confidence is gone
Happiness can not be found
So look what you did to me
You got the best of me
And now I'm stuck with all the rest
It will never be the same
Why don't you, break my heart
Watch me fall apart you see
I'm falling apart, look what you're doing to me
Break my heart
Watch me fall apart you see
I'm falling apart, look what you're doing to me
All I ever wanted
Has left me standing here alone
It started with you and ended with me
All I ever needed
I had it with you in my arms
It started with you and ended with me
Break my heart
Watch me fall apart you see
I'm falling apart, look what you're doing to me
Why don't you, break my heart
Watch me fall apart you see
I'm falling apart, look what you're doing to me
Why don't you, break my heart
Watch me fall apart you see
I'm falling apart, look what you're doing to me
Why don't you, break my heart
Break my heart
Break my heart
Break my heart
Break my heart
Break my heart
Break my heart
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Great version of a great song,
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Magical
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If you guys hate this song so much why are you even looking at it? Seriously, noboby cares about how much you hate Hilary Duff.
wow, looks like no one enjoys this song.
its the wrong lyrics my cousin has most wanted and its way diffrent from this song
The lyrics are way wrong, this is a totally different song. I like the actual beat of my heart. There's no under lying deep meaning but the song is awesome.
im gonna regret this.. but i really do like this song
hun? thats not the lyrics!
To the beat of my To the beat of my To the beat of my heart
I'm thinking about, Letting it out. I wanna give in, I wanna go out. Been looking around I've finally found, The rhythm of love, The feeling of sound. It's making a change,
The feeling is strange. It's coming right back. Right back in my range. Not worried about anything else, I'm waking up
To the beat of my, To the beat of my, To the beat of my heart.
[Chorus:] The beat of my heart, The beat of my heart, The beat of my heart, It tears us apart. The beat of my heart, The beat of my heart, The beat of my heart, Now I'm back to the start. To the beat of my, To the beat of my, To the beat of my heart,
I'm up from my down. I turn it around. I'm making it back, I'm not gonna drown. I'm taking a stance. I won't miss a chance. I want you to see I'm not scared to dance.
The way that you feel Could never be real. I want you to know I finished the deal. So I'm sayin to you I'll always be true. To the rhythm inside,
To the beat of my, To the beat of my, To the beat of my heart,
[Chorus]
Away Away, Away Away, Away Away, Away Away, Away Away, Away Away, To the beat of my, To the beat of my heart, Away Away, Away Away, To the beat of my, To the beat of my heart,
The beat of my heart, The beat of my heart, The beat of my heart, It tears us apart, The beat of my heart, The beat of my heart, The beat of my heart, Now I'm back to the start,
[Chorus]
Away Away, Away Away, To the beat of my, To the beat of my heart, Away Away, Away Away, To the beat of my, To the beat of my heart.
Those are the correct lyrics. The only reason I like this song is because I like when she sings "Away Away-" the guitar sounds really cool, & such.
i hate hilary duff. she only got a record deal cuz she's famous. she can't sing and all her music sucks.... well it's not even HER music... it's not like she could possibly put all those words together by herself... her stupid boyfriend does all that for her.
THE LYRICS ARE WORNG AT THE TOP BUT KILLSTAR HAS THEM RIGHT I LOVE THAT SONG MAN
MORE POWER TO YOU, 2THEEND!!