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"
Feeling sorrow
For all the things you had to steal and borrow
And bring back the days we had before tomorrow
Relapse and then collapse into yourself once more
Waiting for this life to change seems like it's takin' me forever
And I can't hold on this life is breakin' into the day
This life is going to change seems like it's takin' me forever
And I can't hold on this life is breakin' into the day
But I can't feel
The doctor tells me to relax and stand still
Please scratch me a new pill to quell my anger
Wish I could make her pull herself up off the floor
Waiting for this life to change seems like it's takin' me forever
And I can't hold on this life is breakin' into the day
This life is going to change seems like it's takin' me forever
And I can't hold on this life is breakin' into the day again
Into the day again
Waiting for this life to change seems like it's takin' me forever
And I can't hold on this life is breakin' into the day
This life is going to change seems like it's takin' me forever
And I can't hold on this life is breakin' into the day
Take time to contemplate who you are and where you want to go
Take time to contemplate who you are and where you want to go
Into the day
For all the things you had to steal and borrow
And bring back the days we had before tomorrow
Relapse and then collapse into yourself once more
Waiting for this life to change seems like it's takin' me forever
And I can't hold on this life is breakin' into the day
This life is going to change seems like it's takin' me forever
And I can't hold on this life is breakin' into the day
But I can't feel
The doctor tells me to relax and stand still
Please scratch me a new pill to quell my anger
Wish I could make her pull herself up off the floor
Waiting for this life to change seems like it's takin' me forever
And I can't hold on this life is breakin' into the day
This life is going to change seems like it's takin' me forever
And I can't hold on this life is breakin' into the day again
Into the day again
Waiting for this life to change seems like it's takin' me forever
And I can't hold on this life is breakin' into the day
This life is going to change seems like it's takin' me forever
And I can't hold on this life is breakin' into the day
Take time to contemplate who you are and where you want to go
Take time to contemplate who you are and where you want to go
Into the day
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y hasnt n e one commented on this yet? this is a pretty good song, not my favorite on the cd, but a good one.......
this song is snazzy one of the best ive ever heard but not the best justifys a badass song listen and ull see
Its quite a good song. I think this song is about someone aiting for a new lease on life. Someone hoping to have a brighter future.
awesome song!
About watching someone fall apart before your eyes. When you know they could do so much better. And it then it ANGERS you. And you know you've got to control it. Because it can't help a single thing.
"Wish I could make her pull herself up off the floor" You realize you can't help someone who doesn't want to help themselves.
"Take time to contemplate who you are and where you want to go." Basically what it says. While you're down there on that floor, breaking. Think about who you are. Where you are now? And where you soon want to go. Don't break apart before you think about things that could change your sense of mind at the moment.
this is one of my top 5 off there cd....seems like i can relate to it too sometimes. i dont know why more people dont like it, i think its great
RJA is also great in concert! i saw them in the Take Action Tour
this is one of my top 5 off there cd....seems like i can relate to it too sometimes. i dont know why more people dont like it, i think its great
RJA is also great in concert! i saw them in the Take Action Tour
i really like the way this song turned out :)
I feel its about a guy who had a messed up childhood and is now in counsuling . His Phychiatrist (the "she" in the song" Gets to know him and shares a lot of things about herself. But in a way she betrays him by not beleiving he can change his own life like she did so shes giving him more pills. On the flip side He thinks she didn't get over her problems but mearyly ran away from them and he thinks the two of them together can help each other through there problems
Ok this song...I lv it....like the whole "waiting for this life to change seems like its taking me forever" I can realtle to that becuse the way my life is...and the "the doctor tells me to relax and stand still prescribes me a new pill to quell my anger" I can relate to that so much to....I just lv this song...one of my favs