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 it goes again,
Put on that deserving tone
And don't forget that this was all your fault.
It's breathing down your neck,
You know you've got to let this go.
You're such a wreck and now it starts to show.
Cause all you can't deny
Is all held inside
And when we go, we say goodbye,
And then we run,
We run away.
Cause all we can't deny is just a lie.
And when we try to just get by
We just can't get past ourselves.
Cause where you are is where you'll be:
Always wanting everything.
It's all the same that you can't ignore
Cause all you want is just "to be more".
It's creeping up again.
(It's all to be considered.)
(It's a game and you're not the winner)
It's a haunting memory.
Cause all you can't deny
Is all held inside
And when we go, We say goodbye
And then we run,
We run away.
Cause all we can't deny is just a lie.
And when we try to just get by
We just can't get past ourselves.
Cause where you are is where you'll be:
Always wanting everything.
It's all the same- that you can't ignore
Cause all you want is just "to be more".
Cause who you are is who you'll be,
And that is really everything.
It's all the same that you can relate.
Cause what you want's not what you're getting.
It's just a matter of time, It's just a matter of time.
It's just a matter of time, It's just a matter of time-
'Til you know you'll be somebody tonight.
Put on that deserving tone
And don't forget that this was all your fault.
It's breathing down your neck,
You know you've got to let this go.
You're such a wreck and now it starts to show.
Cause all you can't deny
Is all held inside
And when we go, we say goodbye,
And then we run,
We run away.
Cause all we can't deny is just a lie.
And when we try to just get by
We just can't get past ourselves.
Cause where you are is where you'll be:
Always wanting everything.
It's all the same that you can't ignore
Cause all you want is just "to be more".
It's creeping up again.
(It's all to be considered.)
(It's a game and you're not the winner)
It's a haunting memory.
Cause all you can't deny
Is all held inside
And when we go, We say goodbye
And then we run,
We run away.
Cause all we can't deny is just a lie.
And when we try to just get by
We just can't get past ourselves.
Cause where you are is where you'll be:
Always wanting everything.
It's all the same- that you can't ignore
Cause all you want is just "to be more".
Cause who you are is who you'll be,
And that is really everything.
It's all the same that you can relate.
Cause what you want's not what you're getting.
It's just a matter of time, It's just a matter of time.
It's just a matter of time, It's just a matter of time-
'Til you know you'll be somebody tonight.
Lyrics submitted by BrandNew1208
Matter of Time Lyrics as written by Kim L. Owens
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This song is all about denial. For example when mediating in two sided arguments, the side state first is always more influential than the second because the first lays out the base coat and is hard to overrule
"Put on that deserving tone and don't forget that this was all your fault." The writer is explaining that the complainer is unjustified in the statement and undeserving of sympathy. This is about how the person that is bening sung about is in a state of denial and lives in that state.
"Cause all we can't deny is just a lie. And when we try to just get by We just can't get past ourselves."
In short, this girl (presumably) is placing the blame in the wrong place because of her mentality of denial, and in a matter of time (where the song changes directions for a more positive sound, like an epiphany) she will learn her problem and change it.
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