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"
I have this feeling inside
That I wouldn't like me if I met me
It seems like a losing fight
If you could see it through my eyes, then you'd believe me
The truth is that I'm overrated
I can't think straight, I'm formulaic
The truth is that it's sad to say it
But you can't help me
You, you don't see me that way, you hear the words that I say
You just tell me my heart's in the right place
It's the world that's confused
And it's never too late to save a hopeless case
I've always known a ghost like me
Can disappear in a moment
Well, I'm my own worst casualty
Anything I touch can be broken
The truth is that I'm self-destructive
I'm insecure, I'm out of focus
The truth is that I've had enough
But you still help me
You, you don't see me that way
You hear the words that I say
You just tell me my heart's in the right place
(You hear the words that I say)
It's the world that's confused,
(You hear the words that I say)
And it's never too late to save a hopeless case
You're giving me perspective
Whoa, it's better than mine
Whoa, and I'll still be defective
And you're wasting your time
The truth is that I'm self-destructive
I'm insecure, I'm out of focus
The truth is that I've had enough
But you still help me
You, you don't see me that way
You hear the words that I say
You just tell me my heart's in the right place
(You hear the words that I say)
It's the world that's confused,
(You hear the words that I say)
And it's never too late to save a hopeless case
(You hear the words that I say)
And my head is on straight
(You hear the words that I say)
And it's never too late to save a hopeless case
That I wouldn't like me if I met me
It seems like a losing fight
If you could see it through my eyes, then you'd believe me
The truth is that I'm overrated
I can't think straight, I'm formulaic
The truth is that it's sad to say it
But you can't help me
You, you don't see me that way, you hear the words that I say
You just tell me my heart's in the right place
It's the world that's confused
And it's never too late to save a hopeless case
I've always known a ghost like me
Can disappear in a moment
Well, I'm my own worst casualty
Anything I touch can be broken
The truth is that I'm self-destructive
I'm insecure, I'm out of focus
The truth is that I've had enough
But you still help me
You, you don't see me that way
You hear the words that I say
You just tell me my heart's in the right place
(You hear the words that I say)
It's the world that's confused,
(You hear the words that I say)
And it's never too late to save a hopeless case
You're giving me perspective
Whoa, it's better than mine
Whoa, and I'll still be defective
And you're wasting your time
The truth is that I'm self-destructive
I'm insecure, I'm out of focus
The truth is that I've had enough
But you still help me
You, you don't see me that way
You hear the words that I say
You just tell me my heart's in the right place
(You hear the words that I say)
It's the world that's confused,
(You hear the words that I say)
And it's never too late to save a hopeless case
(You hear the words that I say)
And my head is on straight
(You hear the words that I say)
And it's never too late to save a hopeless case
Lyrics submitted by punkpirate
Hopeless Case Lyrics as written by Christopher Demakes Shelly Peiken
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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