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"
Ah you've got flaws
That you won't admit
Yet you tell me it's a sin
That I don't believe in
Yet you traded in your cross
For a chance to dance with stars
Now nothing is sacred
I've given thought to leaving
F-f-f-for some time
If only I could read a map
My moat is New Mexico
So it's you I wrote
I started sending you a note
On how I hope that you're happy
I hear you're somewhere in the sand
And how I wish I was an ocean
Maybe then,
I'd get to see you again
And all my friends
They break and they bend
They take shape and they tend
To get better with time
And I say
"Who am I to work so much less
Yet get more
You all deserve what I am walking towards
If you want you should move away"
This has become my weakness
The golden state wins again
Perhaps it's time I settle
Say "it's blue
At least that's a plus"
Plus
I miss you so much
Why am I scared of people in a room?
Why can't they see a good time
Are the people close to you?
Why don't I just give in?
Have a drink and shake some hands
That you won't admit
Yet you tell me it's a sin
That I don't believe in
Yet you traded in your cross
For a chance to dance with stars
Now nothing is sacred
I've given thought to leaving
F-f-f-for some time
If only I could read a map
My moat is New Mexico
So it's you I wrote
I started sending you a note
On how I hope that you're happy
I hear you're somewhere in the sand
And how I wish I was an ocean
Maybe then,
I'd get to see you again
And all my friends
They break and they bend
They take shape and they tend
To get better with time
And I say
"Who am I to work so much less
Yet get more
You all deserve what I am walking towards
If you want you should move away"
This has become my weakness
The golden state wins again
Perhaps it's time I settle
Say "it's blue
At least that's a plus"
Plus
I miss you so much
Why am I scared of people in a room?
Why can't they see a good time
Are the people close to you?
Why don't I just give in?
Have a drink and shake some hands
Lyrics submitted by deepelmdouches, edited by pipeline
Oceans Lyrics as written by Todd Mccord Amy Lee
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Downtown Music Publishing
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this song is about how he misses someone who left Arizona (where Nate is from) to go to California. He wants to follow her. She is "somewhere in the sand" (the beach) "dancing with the stars" (Hollywood), he "wants to be an ocean" (the pacific) so he can see her again. New Mexico is his moat that he can't seem to cross (yeah, it's not DIRECTLY between AZ and CA, but it's poetic license). "The golden state wins again" (California). Finally, he considers leaving and says "it's blue at least that's a plus" (California is a Democratic State, Arizona is Republican, 'red').
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"Why can't I trust anyone, no, not even me?" and "Who do you trust I don't trust nobody Not even her? No, not even me"
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the lyrics are definitely "the state is blue, at least that's a plus." Nate is from Arizona which is a lot more conservative than California. he's trying to come up with reasons to go to California, other than the fact that he misses her, and that's one of the reasons he wants to leave. plus, all of his references to not being a religious person make me think he's also pretty liberal.
"Maybe it's time I put a profile up of who I want to be Fool everyone, just to start over clean I can hide behind a big blue screen"
i think this is another reference to online dating, like the one in Dog Problems. since he couldn't change himself for this girl, he thinks maybe it will be easier to adopt a new persona if he does it online.
I think it says.... "why can't I trust anyone, no, not even me?" :P
"the golden state wins again"
because i'm obsessed with references to california.. this part seems to be that california won the girl who left him over and she moved there.
but honestly why wouldnt she want to move to CA. haha
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I think it's more:<br /> <br /> Nate: "I don't believe in God/formal religion."<br /> Girl: "I do. Firmly."<br /> Nate: "Cool, I guess this is just difference we'll have to deal with."<br /> <br /> --a while later--<br /> <br /> Girl: "I'm moving to California. I want to be an actress/singer/starlet and do the devious things they like to do out in LA."<br /> Nate: "I thought you were a Christian."<br /> Girl: "Lol fame is more fun."<br /> Nate: "You need to stand firmer to your beliefs, whatever they are. Leave."<br /> <br /> --later yet--<br /> <br /> Nate: I miss her.