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"
Broke and drunk on lemonade; her idea to go away.
When-when they-they arrive dress-dressed in pride,
They'll wash them down in flashing lights.
Weight escapes in stereo, soldiers cracking random codes.
He'll find he's so lost-lost
And in her eyes, won't-won't let-let him compromise.
Dance all night.
Coming just to get along, smiling but the love is gone.
She-she fi-finally gets her balance back,
She-she swear-swears it was an act,
Of all ways it could've gone, cake and white and carry-ons,
She'll put an end to this, this 4-year stand
'cause she can't love a violent man.
Dance all night.
It's in her kiss, you won't admit it.
I know that after this we'll never dance again,
So dance all night.
When I took your hand, did I misunderstand?
The plates began to slip away and matching edges start to scrape.
The floors collapse from underneath and plaster walls evaporate.
The programs run and take away the center of our gravity;
The bonds we made were never meant to break.
When-when they-they arrive dress-dressed in pride,
They'll wash them down in flashing lights.
Weight escapes in stereo, soldiers cracking random codes.
He'll find he's so lost-lost
And in her eyes, won't-won't let-let him compromise.
Dance all night.
Coming just to get along, smiling but the love is gone.
She-she fi-finally gets her balance back,
She-she swear-swears it was an act,
Of all ways it could've gone, cake and white and carry-ons,
She'll put an end to this, this 4-year stand
'cause she can't love a violent man.
Dance all night.
It's in her kiss, you won't admit it.
I know that after this we'll never dance again,
So dance all night.
When I took your hand, did I misunderstand?
The plates began to slip away and matching edges start to scrape.
The floors collapse from underneath and plaster walls evaporate.
The programs run and take away the center of our gravity;
The bonds we made were never meant to break.
Lyrics submitted by jxnarcoticz
Programs Lyrics as written by Jeff Widner Alex Burton
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I wonder if this guy was actually married to the girl that broke it off with him--the "home" imagery at the end sort of seems to be like the collapse of domestic life. Plus, you "take her hand" in marriage. Maybe just engaged--the "cake and white and carry-ons" is a could-have-been statement. Anyway, fabulous song.
no way in hell can I see Logan getting married.
I don't think he was actually married with her, the cake and white and carry-on line is preceeded by "of all the ways it could've gone", meaning that could've happened if the "4 year stand" hadn't ended. So obviously she did mean a lot to him, but they weren't married.