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"
Yeah yeah yeah
Julie was a long way from home
She can make alone look pretty
Her attitude made a part of her landscape
Riding her bike through alphabet city
She likes to party in the backseat, under the bridge on the Brooklyn side
Smoking cigarettes in the afterglow, taking bets till the sun won't rise
She said "what good is tomorrow without a guarantee?"
She can lick her lips and smile and make you want to believe
That the consequences of your actions really are just a game
That your life is just a chain reaction, taking you day by day
She says nothing's forever in this crazy world
Still I'm falling in love with the right now poster girl
(Right now right now ooh ooh ooh)
Julie likes to shop lift in stores
Right alongside the rich and famous
Get in elevators, press emergency stop
And make love on the floor until the camera made us
And no woman in the world ever made me feel like my heart's on fire
When she walked, I followed, when she laughed, I cried,
"What good is tomorrow without a guarantee?"
And I was wrapped around her finger, and I began to believe
That the consequences of your actions really are just a game
That your life is just a chain reaction, taking you day by day
She says nothing's forever in this crazy world
Still I'm falling in love with the right now poster girl
That the consequences of your actions really are just a game
That your life is just a chain reaction taking you day by day
She says nothing's forever in this crazy world (crazy world)
Still I'm falling in love with the right now poster girl
Tell me what you want from me
I've got everything you need
It's getting hard for me to breathe
Let me be your guarantee
That the consequences of your actions really are just a game (a game)
That your life is just a chain reaction taking you day by day (by day)
She says nothing's forever in this crazy world
Still I'm falling in love with the right now poster girl (poster girl)
That the consequences of your actions really are just a game (just a game)
That your life is just a chain reaction taking you day by day
She says nothing's forever in this crazy world (crazy world)
Still I'm falling in love with the right now poster girl
Right now, right now
Right now, oh oh oh
Poster girl
Poster girl
Come on, come on
Julie was a long way from home
She can make alone look pretty
Her attitude made a part of her landscape
Riding her bike through alphabet city
She likes to party in the backseat, under the bridge on the Brooklyn side
Smoking cigarettes in the afterglow, taking bets till the sun won't rise
She said "what good is tomorrow without a guarantee?"
She can lick her lips and smile and make you want to believe
That the consequences of your actions really are just a game
That your life is just a chain reaction, taking you day by day
She says nothing's forever in this crazy world
Still I'm falling in love with the right now poster girl
(Right now right now ooh ooh ooh)
Julie likes to shop lift in stores
Right alongside the rich and famous
Get in elevators, press emergency stop
And make love on the floor until the camera made us
And no woman in the world ever made me feel like my heart's on fire
When she walked, I followed, when she laughed, I cried,
"What good is tomorrow without a guarantee?"
And I was wrapped around her finger, and I began to believe
That the consequences of your actions really are just a game
That your life is just a chain reaction, taking you day by day
She says nothing's forever in this crazy world
Still I'm falling in love with the right now poster girl
That the consequences of your actions really are just a game
That your life is just a chain reaction taking you day by day
She says nothing's forever in this crazy world (crazy world)
Still I'm falling in love with the right now poster girl
Tell me what you want from me
I've got everything you need
It's getting hard for me to breathe
Let me be your guarantee
That the consequences of your actions really are just a game (a game)
That your life is just a chain reaction taking you day by day (by day)
She says nothing's forever in this crazy world
Still I'm falling in love with the right now poster girl (poster girl)
That the consequences of your actions really are just a game (just a game)
That your life is just a chain reaction taking you day by day
She says nothing's forever in this crazy world (crazy world)
Still I'm falling in love with the right now poster girl
Right now, right now
Right now, oh oh oh
Poster girl
Poster girl
Come on, come on
Lyrics submitted by Misseverus
Poster Girl Lyrics as written by Rasmus Bahncke Billy Mann
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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