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"
Before I hung up the phone
All I could hear
Was the dial tone ring in my ear
If I could go back in time
I'd say those three words
[Chorus:]
I shoulda, woulda, coulda said it back to you
And this can't be saved if you can't be found
You hung up and left me for dead on the ground
You didn't even say goodbye
I shoulda, woulda, coulda said it back to you
Shoulda, woulda, coulda said it back to you
Now that you're gone
I'm wasting away
The life has been siphoned right out of my veins
If I could go back in time
I'd say those three words
[Chorus]
When you said those three words, I kinda freaked out
When you said them first, my jaw hit the ground
Shoulda, woulda, coulda said it back to you
Shoulda, woulda, coulda said it back to you
And this can't be saved if you can't be found
You hung up and left me for dead on the ground
You didn't even say goodbye
And this can't be saved
(And this can't be saved)
If you can't be found
(If you can't be found)
And this can't be saved
I shoulda, woulda, coulda said it back to you
Shoulda, woulda, coulda said it back to you
All I could hear
Was the dial tone ring in my ear
If I could go back in time
I'd say those three words
[Chorus:]
I shoulda, woulda, coulda said it back to you
And this can't be saved if you can't be found
You hung up and left me for dead on the ground
You didn't even say goodbye
I shoulda, woulda, coulda said it back to you
Shoulda, woulda, coulda said it back to you
Now that you're gone
I'm wasting away
The life has been siphoned right out of my veins
If I could go back in time
I'd say those three words
[Chorus]
When you said those three words, I kinda freaked out
When you said them first, my jaw hit the ground
Shoulda, woulda, coulda said it back to you
Shoulda, woulda, coulda said it back to you
And this can't be saved if you can't be found
You hung up and left me for dead on the ground
You didn't even say goodbye
And this can't be saved
(And this can't be saved)
If you can't be found
(If you can't be found)
And this can't be saved
I shoulda, woulda, coulda said it back to you
Shoulda, woulda, coulda said it back to you
Lyrics submitted by Andromedae
Shoulda Lyrics as written by Brian Howes Benjamin Shillabeer
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This is one of those songs that always make you think about what you didn't do or say... will always make you end up feeling sad but understood at the same time. This is the perfect song for me at the mo, combined with shoulda. Every person wants to love someone, its just hard to say how much you do love them at the time, and then you realise later what a mistake you made. I think Hinder must've been through a lot to be able to speak like this through their lyrics, they're a great band and i hope they keep it coming:)