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"
Where do you get off
Doing all these hurtful things
Two floors up and still i sing
A hopeful song for you
How am i to feel
Your words they seem so true to me
Like you could get right through to me
But look what you do to me
You're making me cold.
Can we start again
Can we get it right
Can we get through the novelty
of your sympathy tonight
Or else i'll just grab my gun and
Go on to the next one
You're on to the next one
Am I just another boy
Another name roll off your lips
Another shake of your hips
Just to bring me to my knees
Sad thing is I'm here
I could give you everything
instead I'm just a worthless fling
and a fool to let it sting
Can we start again
Can we get it right
Can we get through the novelty
of your sympathy tonight
Or else I'll just grab my gun and
Go on to the next one
Can we start again
Give it one more shot
Can we get through the things you need
Open up to me and just give me all you got
Or else I'll just grab my gun
and go on to the next one
You're on to the next one
Can we start again
CAn we get it right
CAn we get through the novelty
of your sympathy tonight
Or else i'll just grab my gun and
Go on to the next one
Oh can we strat again
Can we get it right
Can we get through the novelty
of your sympathy tonight
Or else i'll just grab my gun
And go on to the next one
You're on to the next one
Doing all these hurtful things
Two floors up and still i sing
A hopeful song for you
How am i to feel
Your words they seem so true to me
Like you could get right through to me
But look what you do to me
You're making me cold.
Can we start again
Can we get it right
Can we get through the novelty
of your sympathy tonight
Or else i'll just grab my gun and
Go on to the next one
You're on to the next one
Am I just another boy
Another name roll off your lips
Another shake of your hips
Just to bring me to my knees
Sad thing is I'm here
I could give you everything
instead I'm just a worthless fling
and a fool to let it sting
Can we start again
Can we get it right
Can we get through the novelty
of your sympathy tonight
Or else I'll just grab my gun and
Go on to the next one
Can we start again
Give it one more shot
Can we get through the things you need
Open up to me and just give me all you got
Or else I'll just grab my gun
and go on to the next one
You're on to the next one
Can we start again
CAn we get it right
CAn we get through the novelty
of your sympathy tonight
Or else i'll just grab my gun and
Go on to the next one
Oh can we strat again
Can we get it right
Can we get through the novelty
of your sympathy tonight
Or else i'll just grab my gun
And go on to the next one
You're on to the next one
Lyrics submitted by Laniisforlovers
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