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"
That the sky would lift
That I'd find my place
That I'd see your face in the door
And the sun would glint
An a time well spent
An a time that ain't no more
Taste the broken hearts
In the vacant lots
See the fruit that rots on the trees
Try to turn my head
Leave it all for dead
But it's in my mind always
Honey lately I've been way down
A load on my mind
Honey lately I've been way down
Load on my mind
Someone tell me where did it go
Darling I'm damned if I know
I seen that look in your eye
No-one ever gave it a chance
I could have said in advance
You saw it all at a glance
And goodbye
Drag a salted kiss
From this cup of bliss
Watch a new lie twist on the breeze
You can paint it red
Leave it all for dead
But it's in my head always
Honey lately I've been way down
A load on my mind
Honey lately I've been way down
Load on my mind
Someone tell me where did it go
Darling I'm damned if I know
I seen that look in your eye
No-one ever gave it a chance
I could have said in advance
You saw it all at a glance
And goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Honey lately I've been way down
Honey lately I've been way down
Honey lately I've been way down
Honey lately I've been way down
Lately
Lately
That I'd find my place
That I'd see your face in the door
And the sun would glint
An a time well spent
An a time that ain't no more
Taste the broken hearts
In the vacant lots
See the fruit that rots on the trees
Try to turn my head
Leave it all for dead
But it's in my mind always
Honey lately I've been way down
A load on my mind
Honey lately I've been way down
Load on my mind
Someone tell me where did it go
Darling I'm damned if I know
I seen that look in your eye
No-one ever gave it a chance
I could have said in advance
You saw it all at a glance
And goodbye
Drag a salted kiss
From this cup of bliss
Watch a new lie twist on the breeze
You can paint it red
Leave it all for dead
But it's in my head always
Honey lately I've been way down
A load on my mind
Honey lately I've been way down
Load on my mind
Someone tell me where did it go
Darling I'm damned if I know
I seen that look in your eye
No-one ever gave it a chance
I could have said in advance
You saw it all at a glance
And goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Honey lately I've been way down
Honey lately I've been way down
Honey lately I've been way down
Honey lately I've been way down
Lately
Lately
Lyrics submitted by Joekubrick
Lately Lyrics as written by David Gray Craig Mcclune
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Great version of a great song,
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i don't know why you said its fairly easy to understand, and then hardly explain it...
i think its about the past, and how he wishes he could relive his greatest times again with possibly his loved one. but he realized that no matter how you put it (what color you paint it), its in the past. he knows he has to leave the good times behind but at the same time he realizes that they're a part of him and he'll never fully move on
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yeah the album version sucks..i think if i had heard it first i would never have liked this song that much. i don't know what the one on his new dvd sounds like, but if you look up david gray lately on youtube a truly amazing live version comes up...its 9 minutes long and has so much climax
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I think this one is fairly easy to understand, but the back and forth in the bridge I find extremely catchy. I think this is about discontent at the current situation and everything that goes to waste ("fruit that rots on the tree").
Since the "official licensed lyrics" are wrong as hell, here's what's happening:
That the sky would lift That I'd find my place That I'd see your face in the door And the sun would glint On a time well spent On a time that ain't no more
Taste the broken hearts In the vacant lots See the fruit that rots on the trees Try to turn my head Leave it all for dead But it's in my mind always
Honey lately I've been way down A load on my mind Honey lately I've been way down Load on my mind
Someone tell me where did it go Darling I'm damned if I know I seen that look in your eye No one ever gave it a chance I could have said in advance You saw it all at a glance And goodbye
Drag a salted kiss From this cup of bliss Watch a new lie twist on the breeze You can paint it red Leave it all for dead But it's in my head always
Honey lately I've been way down A load on my mind Honey lately I've been way down Load on my mind
Someone tell me where did it go Darling I'm damned if I know I seen that look in your eye No one ever gave it a chance I could have said in advance You saw it all at a glance And goodbye
Goodbye
Honey lately I've been way down
Lately