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"
Listen doctor I have pain that grows inside myself
Shelf me please, I just can't ease the pain, I need some drugs to help
Ah pollution fills my lungs and convolution fills my mind
Ah my legs do ache, I contemplate that living's less than fine
My spine does tingle when I think of being freed from this curse
But what is worse I feel life is a bubble blown until it's burst
Oh doctor I am desperate to get rid of this feeling
Oh doctor I am desperate for some good soul healing
The doctor turned and gave a grin and reached into his bag
But instead of an injection got a record with a tag
That said listen to this daily with hip shaking and such things
Then he puts the record in grabs a mic and starts to sing
You need some -
One four five
To make you high to make you high
To make you high to make you high
When heaven falling from the sky
To make you high to make you high
Doctor I am feeling better, what was that you sang?
Did you write it or recite it or just steal it from a band?
Ah my bones are feeling stronger and my spirit's feeling fresh
Ah that dose of 145 has put the life back in my breath
'yes yes yes' the doctor said then he sat me down and say
'young man don't think I wrote these chords,
they're written in your brain'
and when you hear them there's a shakedown that begins within the mind
‘Cause these three chords make people feeling better all the time ah
They keep repeating like a scratch on a cd
But it's quality ‘cause these three harmonies breed positivity
Protecting against insanity of modern insecurities
Believe me when I tell you all you need is to be hearing all that
One four five
To make you high to make you high
To make you high to make you high
When they said what and you said why
To make you high to make you high
The doctor turned and gave a grin and reached into his bag
But instead of an injection got a record with a tag
That said listen to this daily with hip shaking and such things
Then he puts the record in grabs a mic and starts to sing
You need some -
One four five
To make you high to make you high
When you could not count to pi
When you're told you can't fly
To make you high to make you high
Times like these you need some
One four five
Shelf me please, I just can't ease the pain, I need some drugs to help
Ah pollution fills my lungs and convolution fills my mind
Ah my legs do ache, I contemplate that living's less than fine
My spine does tingle when I think of being freed from this curse
But what is worse I feel life is a bubble blown until it's burst
Oh doctor I am desperate to get rid of this feeling
Oh doctor I am desperate for some good soul healing
The doctor turned and gave a grin and reached into his bag
But instead of an injection got a record with a tag
That said listen to this daily with hip shaking and such things
Then he puts the record in grabs a mic and starts to sing
You need some -
One four five
To make you high to make you high
To make you high to make you high
When heaven falling from the sky
To make you high to make you high
Doctor I am feeling better, what was that you sang?
Did you write it or recite it or just steal it from a band?
Ah my bones are feeling stronger and my spirit's feeling fresh
Ah that dose of 145 has put the life back in my breath
'yes yes yes' the doctor said then he sat me down and say
'young man don't think I wrote these chords,
they're written in your brain'
and when you hear them there's a shakedown that begins within the mind
‘Cause these three chords make people feeling better all the time ah
They keep repeating like a scratch on a cd
But it's quality ‘cause these three harmonies breed positivity
Protecting against insanity of modern insecurities
Believe me when I tell you all you need is to be hearing all that
One four five
To make you high to make you high
To make you high to make you high
When they said what and you said why
To make you high to make you high
The doctor turned and gave a grin and reached into his bag
But instead of an injection got a record with a tag
That said listen to this daily with hip shaking and such things
Then he puts the record in grabs a mic and starts to sing
You need some -
One four five
To make you high to make you high
When you could not count to pi
When you're told you can't fly
To make you high to make you high
Times like these you need some
One four five
Lyrics submitted by -Amz-
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