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"
he's watching her; she's dancing there,
pressed up against the buyers and the willing.
her moves so graceful, he can't embrace the structure that became her name,
elaine, elaine, that was her name.
he knows he can't afford
to be wrapped up in this system,
this world where the most beautiful crime is a sin.
He spoke the words you won't believe, said it all but so did she,but she's the liar, but she's the liar here.
hello gorgeous,is he coming on too strong?
you just can't fight the ryhthm,
fight the rhythm.
can't fight the rhythm,
fight the rhythm.
Across these empty streets lie chapels,
the faith she's running after
the faith she's counting on tonight,
as he crawls slowly back there.
can you feel his presence beside you?
can you feel his arms wrapped around you?
He spoke the words you won't believe, said it all but so did she, but she's the liar, but she's the liar..he gets his nerve and says calmly, to judge him fair and let him be, let him be, considered.
Set it aside, just run
(just run),
keep on running girl he's right behind you.
(running girl, he's right behind you)
Finding the time to compensate for all your actions, leave it now she's not attracted, leave it boy or she'll react then
(make her way to the train station, lay her head and let god take her.)
it's been awhile since i've been this scared,
so unexpected.
i never thought i'd have to run so far
to get away from you.
he looks for sympathy as he walks along this lonely passage only to find the one he loves running from his attatchment..
he spoke the words you won't believe, said it all but so did she, but she's the liar, but she's the liar here. he gets his nerve and says calmly to judge him fair and let him be, let him be considered.
make your way back home, where it's safe, you're not alone. (x4)
pressed up against the buyers and the willing.
her moves so graceful, he can't embrace the structure that became her name,
elaine, elaine, that was her name.
he knows he can't afford
to be wrapped up in this system,
this world where the most beautiful crime is a sin.
He spoke the words you won't believe, said it all but so did she,but she's the liar, but she's the liar here.
hello gorgeous,is he coming on too strong?
you just can't fight the ryhthm,
fight the rhythm.
can't fight the rhythm,
fight the rhythm.
Across these empty streets lie chapels,
the faith she's running after
the faith she's counting on tonight,
as he crawls slowly back there.
can you feel his presence beside you?
can you feel his arms wrapped around you?
He spoke the words you won't believe, said it all but so did she, but she's the liar, but she's the liar..he gets his nerve and says calmly, to judge him fair and let him be, let him be, considered.
Set it aside, just run
(just run),
keep on running girl he's right behind you.
(running girl, he's right behind you)
Finding the time to compensate for all your actions, leave it now she's not attracted, leave it boy or she'll react then
(make her way to the train station, lay her head and let god take her.)
it's been awhile since i've been this scared,
so unexpected.
i never thought i'd have to run so far
to get away from you.
he looks for sympathy as he walks along this lonely passage only to find the one he loves running from his attatchment..
he spoke the words you won't believe, said it all but so did she, but she's the liar, but she's the liar here. he gets his nerve and says calmly to judge him fair and let him be, let him be considered.
make your way back home, where it's safe, you're not alone. (x4)
Lyrics submitted by D:R Love
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...Danger: Radio is my favorite band and this was my first D:R song that i knew all the words to. haha. i think you did a really good job w/ the lyrics. there's a few mistakes but they're minor :)