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"
These days I feel like I'm watchin' a movie
With subtitles, only I can't read the words
You do your best to make sure I understand you
But these boring topics always seem so absurd
And more and more I find I don't get the meaning
But I do appreciate your likable appeal
Say you're trying to drive us in the right direction
But I get the feeling you're falling asleep at the wheel
So, don't tell me you will, when you know that you won't
Don't say that you do, when you know that you don't
Cause the more that you give, for the less that I get
And the more that we share, is the more I regret
Cause I don't have much to believe in
That's why I am always counting on you
I don't have much to believe in
But if I did, Ya know I'd be doing it for you
These days I feel like I'm talking to no one
It's cause I'm usually not
Keep pushing for a brand new beginning
You can't release me when I haven't been caught
You keep saying that I'm just getting stranger
That you don't even know what I stand for these days
I'd like to say, don't worry we'll get through it
But I get the feeling that this isn't just a phase
Don't tell me to yell, when you want me to whisper
Don't spin the bottle if you don't want to kiss her
Closer we get the further I feel
The less that we fake the more that seems real
Cause I don't have much to believe in
That's why I am always counting on you
I don't have much to believe in
But if I did, Ya know I'd be doing it for you
With subtitles, only I can't read the words
You do your best to make sure I understand you
But these boring topics always seem so absurd
And more and more I find I don't get the meaning
But I do appreciate your likable appeal
Say you're trying to drive us in the right direction
But I get the feeling you're falling asleep at the wheel
So, don't tell me you will, when you know that you won't
Don't say that you do, when you know that you don't
Cause the more that you give, for the less that I get
And the more that we share, is the more I regret
Cause I don't have much to believe in
That's why I am always counting on you
I don't have much to believe in
But if I did, Ya know I'd be doing it for you
These days I feel like I'm talking to no one
It's cause I'm usually not
Keep pushing for a brand new beginning
You can't release me when I haven't been caught
You keep saying that I'm just getting stranger
That you don't even know what I stand for these days
I'd like to say, don't worry we'll get through it
But I get the feeling that this isn't just a phase
Don't tell me to yell, when you want me to whisper
Don't spin the bottle if you don't want to kiss her
Closer we get the further I feel
The less that we fake the more that seems real
Cause I don't have much to believe in
That's why I am always counting on you
I don't have much to believe in
But if I did, Ya know I'd be doing it for you
Lyrics submitted by urinemylife
Subtitles Lyrics as written by Eric Hutchinson
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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