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"
You dont belong and I know what you mean, now dont think of what these other people dream, its not relevant to who you want to be, cause they could sell you things you cant see, look at me. I dont belong here thats why you see me struggle, and then you wonder whats wrong? You see I dont belong. Surrounded by people with blank faces, with open checkbooks turning to the page of revolations.
In my room consuming too many chemicals! cause no one understands who I am, but in the morning when the effects are gone, I realize that I dont belong.
I dont belong
I dont belong
Me and You, We dont belong
We dont belong
And they dont know the truth, because they're happy with the lie that they live.
And Im happy with the fact that I know one day that this will all eventually end.
And I dont give a fuck knowing I dont have to conform,
So whats the purpose of even being born?
And I was glad that I read that book, and I was glad that I burned that bridge.
And I was glad that I took every chance I was given and went and fucked it all up instead.
And I'll never regret every time that I took that drug to become everything that I feared.
Cause everyone else always seems to have a better answer than the one I always seem to give.
But regardless of whos right or wrong, I realize that I dont belong.
I dont belong
And who am I?
Im the one whos wasted every single second that Ive lived.
Cause I forgot every woman Ive fucked.
I dont recall every drug that Ive done.
But everytime somebody tells me they love me, I wonder what the fuck I have to love?
Cause they dont love me, they love the idea of me.
Or better yet they're in love with who I used to be,
But everything that I used to be is gone
So would you love me if I dont belong?
Cause everything that I used to be is gone
So would you love me if I dont belong?
And everytime somebody tells me they love me, I wonder what the fuck I have to love?
Cause they dont love me, they love the idea of me.
Or better yet they're in love with who I used to be,
But everything that I used to be is gone
So would you love me if I dont belong?
Cause everything that I used to be is gone
So would you love me if I dont belong?
I cant go back home, cause I dont got one.
I cant go back home, cause Im not welcome anymore.
In my room consuming too many chemicals! cause no one understands who I am, but in the morning when the effects are gone, I realize that I dont belong.
I dont belong
I dont belong
Me and You, We dont belong
We dont belong
And they dont know the truth, because they're happy with the lie that they live.
And Im happy with the fact that I know one day that this will all eventually end.
And I dont give a fuck knowing I dont have to conform,
So whats the purpose of even being born?
And I was glad that I read that book, and I was glad that I burned that bridge.
And I was glad that I took every chance I was given and went and fucked it all up instead.
And I'll never regret every time that I took that drug to become everything that I feared.
Cause everyone else always seems to have a better answer than the one I always seem to give.
But regardless of whos right or wrong, I realize that I dont belong.
I dont belong
And who am I?
Im the one whos wasted every single second that Ive lived.
Cause I forgot every woman Ive fucked.
I dont recall every drug that Ive done.
But everytime somebody tells me they love me, I wonder what the fuck I have to love?
Cause they dont love me, they love the idea of me.
Or better yet they're in love with who I used to be,
But everything that I used to be is gone
So would you love me if I dont belong?
Cause everything that I used to be is gone
So would you love me if I dont belong?
And everytime somebody tells me they love me, I wonder what the fuck I have to love?
Cause they dont love me, they love the idea of me.
Or better yet they're in love with who I used to be,
But everything that I used to be is gone
So would you love me if I dont belong?
Cause everything that I used to be is gone
So would you love me if I dont belong?
I cant go back home, cause I dont got one.
I cant go back home, cause Im not welcome anymore.
Lyrics submitted by twilight2007
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