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"
She’s eating this disorder
Starving herself.
‘Cause she’s starving for attention
Like it’s vital to her health
And she cries
Out in lights
If anyone could see me
Could you give me what I need?
She takes her pills and it keeps her alive
She takes these pills to fill her up inside
He's standing on the corner
Holding out his hand
And he’s begging for someone
Anyone to understand
And he cries
Out in lights
If anyone could see me
Could you give me what I need?
If anyone could see me
Could you make my heart not bleed?
(repeat)
You take your pills to fill you up inside
Starving herself.
‘Cause she’s starving for attention
Like it’s vital to her health
And she cries
Out in lights
If anyone could see me
Could you give me what I need?
She takes her pills and it keeps her alive
She takes these pills to fill her up inside
He's standing on the corner
Holding out his hand
And he’s begging for someone
Anyone to understand
And he cries
Out in lights
If anyone could see me
Could you give me what I need?
If anyone could see me
Could you make my heart not bleed?
(repeat)
You take your pills to fill you up inside
Lyrics submitted by Narayan
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"If anyone could see me Could you give me what I need?"
my fav part
drug addicted girlfriend maybe?
this song reminds me of my friend..it reminds me of how she pretended she didn't need anybody and nothing was wrong..i hated to see her rot away in a corner like that..
"Eating [this] disorder"? "Starving herself"? Anorexia anyone...?
umm actually it's a song for anyone in genrel, I don't struggle with any of the things that the chacters are in this song, but it touchs me, becase it reassures me that ther IS a God, and that in Him there IS Hope. this is truly an amazing song, NEVERTHELESS can sure write good music! and perform it well to!
i agree with foreverhis888 this song is talkting about how everyone tries to fill their lives with things that they think will satify them but in the end they just end up feeling empty and lost. we look for happiness in the places we shouldn't, we think that a person, material object, a certain look, etc. can fill the whole we have, the emptiness we long to fill but the one and only person who can do that is staring us right in the face. it's god, so why do we still look for these things, why are we running?