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"
Husband don't know what he's done
Kids don't know what's wrong with mum
She can't say, they can't see
Putting it down to another bad day
Daddy don't know what he's done
Kids don't know what's wrong with mum
So this is how it feels to be lonely
This is how it feels to be small
This is how it feels when your word means nothing at all
Black car drives through the town
Some guy from the top estate
Left a note for a local girl
And yet he had it all on a plate
So this is how it feels to be lonely (feels to be lonely)
This is how it feels to be small (feels to be small)
This is how it feels when your word means nothing at all
Husband don't know what he's done
Kids don't know what's wrong with mum
She can't say, they can't see
Putting it down to another bad day
So this is how it feels to be lonely (feels to be lonely)
This is how it feels to be small (feels to be small)
This is how it feels when your word means nothing at all
So this is how it feels to be lonely (feels to be lonely)
This is how it feels to be small (feels to be small)
This is how it feels when your word means nothing at all
Nothing at all
Nothing at all
Kids don't know what's wrong with mum
She can't say, they can't see
Putting it down to another bad day
Daddy don't know what he's done
Kids don't know what's wrong with mum
So this is how it feels to be lonely
This is how it feels to be small
This is how it feels when your word means nothing at all
Black car drives through the town
Some guy from the top estate
Left a note for a local girl
And yet he had it all on a plate
So this is how it feels to be lonely (feels to be lonely)
This is how it feels to be small (feels to be small)
This is how it feels when your word means nothing at all
Husband don't know what he's done
Kids don't know what's wrong with mum
She can't say, they can't see
Putting it down to another bad day
So this is how it feels to be lonely (feels to be lonely)
This is how it feels to be small (feels to be small)
This is how it feels when your word means nothing at all
So this is how it feels to be lonely (feels to be lonely)
This is how it feels to be small (feels to be small)
This is how it feels when your word means nothing at all
Nothing at all
Nothing at all
Lyrics submitted by barrylyall
This Is How It Feels Lyrics as written by Craig Douglas Gill Clinton David Boon
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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I think it's about depression. I also think the first to verses are two seperate examples.
In the first, the mother is suffering, and neither the husband or the kids can understand what's happening. This happened happened when I was a kid. I think if the husband was having an affair, he'd know what he'd done.
And I think the second verse, the note left is a suicede note (seperate incident), that was heard on the grapevine (black car - hearse) guy leaving a note for a local girl, when he had it all on a plate (everything to live for)
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The first verse is definitely about the depression of the mother, and her husband thinking he's to blame, but they can't tell the kids hence it is put down to "another bad day".
The "black car" definitely refers to a hearse. Of course, these are not the original lyrics. The original second verse was:
"There's a funeral in the town some guy from the top estate it seems they found him under a train and yet he had it all on a plate".
When you see this it becomes clear that a man who was seemingly doing well in life threw himself under a train as a result of his depression. Sadly, they had to change the train reference following the tragic murder of James Bulger.
There's two versions of this song, two chapters if you like. The first is about the guy from the 'top' estate in his black car Jaguar perhaps, leaving the note for the local girl, who is 'Mum', the other version is about a funeral in the town, 'seems they found him under a train, yet he had it all on a plate'. Which I think means that he killed himself over her, and left her a note telling her. Quite dark really.
what an ace tune, a bit depressing in it's lyrical content, but still a bit of a good mood track...if that makes any sense
Black car drives through the town, Some guy from the top estate Left a note for a local girl, And yet he had it all on a plate
This is about suicide, black car is the hearse, the note is the suicide note, perhaps the 'local girl' is 'mum'??
It all centres around the mother. In the past she had a relationship/affair with the chap from the top estate. She is married(maybe) to the man she lives with and their children. This is how it feels to be lonely is from the mother's view as she lives with a man who she no longer loves and only thinks of the chap who has commited suicide, her husband probably doesn't love her, as he makes her feel small and her words mean nothing at all to him. She can't say and they can't see, is because no one knew of their secret affair. He can't go on without her especially now she's with someone else. The sad part to me is that maybe she felt trapped in a marriage with a guy who would have never let her go. If he's thinks nothing of her then he would probably be violent as well, but, that's not mentioned, I just think a maybe. Song lyrics are amazing when you break every single word down, except nonsense lyrics, which are fun in a different way.
oh well heck not sure
maybe a kid with a bad accent j/p feels insignifant ignored and overlooked cuz of marital maladies between mom and daddio
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the old man is cheating on the wife........i think
Basically, that feeling, of no one understanding you, how your feeling and feel like your trapped in a box and you can't get out!
I've felt like this before.
Everyone's felt like this before.