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"
Tell me what I'm supposed to do
With all these left over feelings of you
'Cause I don't know
And tell me how I'm supposed to feel
When all these nightmares become real
'Cause I don't know
And I don't think you see
The places inside me that I find
(together)
And I don't know how we
Separate the lies here from the truth
(time)
And I don't know how we
Woke up one day somehow thought we knew
Exactly what we're supposed to do
(together)
So leave me at the roadside
And hang me up and out to dry
So leave me at the roadside
And hang me up and out to dry
And I don't think you see
The places inside me that I find
(together)
And I don't know how we
Woke up one day somehow thought we knew
Exactly what were supposed to do
(together)
So leave me at the roadside
And hang me up and out to dry
So leave me at the roadside
And hang me up and out to dry
'Cause I don't think you see
The places inside me that I find
(together)
And I don't know how we
Woke up one day somehow thought we knew
Exactly what we're supposed to do
(tim)
...exactly what to do
With all these left over feelings of you
'Cause I don't know
And tell me how I'm supposed to feel
When all these nightmares become real
'Cause I don't know
And I don't think you see
The places inside me that I find
(together)
And I don't know how we
Separate the lies here from the truth
(time)
And I don't know how we
Woke up one day somehow thought we knew
Exactly what we're supposed to do
(together)
So leave me at the roadside
And hang me up and out to dry
So leave me at the roadside
And hang me up and out to dry
And I don't think you see
The places inside me that I find
(together)
And I don't know how we
Woke up one day somehow thought we knew
Exactly what were supposed to do
(together)
So leave me at the roadside
And hang me up and out to dry
So leave me at the roadside
And hang me up and out to dry
'Cause I don't think you see
The places inside me that I find
(together)
And I don't know how we
Woke up one day somehow thought we knew
Exactly what we're supposed to do
(tim)
...exactly what to do
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Roadside Lyrics as written by Christopher Chasse Brandon Barnes
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This song has personal meaning to me, but it goes along with what I believe it is about.
It is about a girlfriend/boyfriend thing, but like the girl broke up with the guy (Tim narrating) and he still loves her, but she doesn't want him back. And no matter how hard he tries, he just cant get over this girl. "Tell me what I'm supposed to do, with all these leftover feelings of you, cause I don't know"
His nightmares becoming real are the fact that this girl he downright loves, has moved on, but he still hasn't, at a point believing there was still hope.
He also doesn't think she gets how much he really loves or cares for her and that he thinks of her in daily things that probably shouldn't remind him of her and what they once had. "And I don't think, you see, the places inside me that i find you"
"So leave me, by the roadside, and hang me out to dry" is a metaphor for just leaving him behind to move on with her life, because well if she left him at the roadside, she'd (assumingly) be in a car, able to speed off and get on with things quiker then him, who has to walk to the destination.
"and I don't know, how we, woke up one day somehow thought we knew, exactly what we're supposed to do" This just applied to my situation, because we split up mutually, but we thought we knew exactly what we were doing, but I know now that I really didn't letting her go...sorry about personal ranting on a public website people, i know that's what myspace is for.
@Sabresareus Great!!! You described my toughts as well