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"
Release me.
Set me on fire.
I'll treat you
better than you treat yourself.
And tell me,
I'm worth more
more than anything or anyone else.
Bled me dry on a Sunday afternoon.
No tears left,
I've cried them all for you.
You hold the cards.
You're my queen of hearts,
it's true.
Pull my arm and I'll take good care of you.
Ohh ohh ohhh
Ohh ohh ohhh
Ohh ohh ohhh
Wide awake and you're hoping for
someone to walk through that open door.
Wide awake and you're hoping for
someone to walk through that open door.
Tuxedo on,
I'm ready for gun war.
I've never bled so hard after casino brawl.
And pull the knife from my ever bleeding heart.
Tell me now your words never meant me harm.
On my way to the Ritz to meet with you.
So much time,
so little left to do.
I pay the bills,
now my fears have come true.
This table for one was always meant for two.
Wide awake and you're hoping for
someone to walk through that open door.
Wide awake and you're hoping for
someone to walk through that open door.
I'm all alone with you,
but who am I to make a move?
I've waited so long to prove that I'm in love with you.
(will every door that's open lead me straight to you?)
Doo dodoo do do dodododoo
what's going on?
Wide awake and you're hoping for someone to walk through that open door.
Set me on fire.
I'll treat you
better than you treat yourself.
And tell me,
I'm worth more
more than anything or anyone else.
Bled me dry on a Sunday afternoon.
No tears left,
I've cried them all for you.
You hold the cards.
You're my queen of hearts,
it's true.
Pull my arm and I'll take good care of you.
Ohh ohh ohhh
Ohh ohh ohhh
Ohh ohh ohhh
Wide awake and you're hoping for
someone to walk through that open door.
Wide awake and you're hoping for
someone to walk through that open door.
Tuxedo on,
I'm ready for gun war.
I've never bled so hard after casino brawl.
And pull the knife from my ever bleeding heart.
Tell me now your words never meant me harm.
On my way to the Ritz to meet with you.
So much time,
so little left to do.
I pay the bills,
now my fears have come true.
This table for one was always meant for two.
Wide awake and you're hoping for
someone to walk through that open door.
Wide awake and you're hoping for
someone to walk through that open door.
I'm all alone with you,
but who am I to make a move?
I've waited so long to prove that I'm in love with you.
(will every door that's open lead me straight to you?)
Doo dodoo do do dodododoo
what's going on?
Wide awake and you're hoping for someone to walk through that open door.
Lyrics submitted by soarchyourbackx
The Casino Brawl Lyrics as written by Luke Pickett
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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