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"
If you wanted to, you could just settle down
But you'd rather just waste away
Button up, shut up, and turn your life around
What would it take to get this started?
If you wanted to, you could just settle down
But you'd rather just waste away
Button up, shut up, and turn your life around
What will it take to get this started?
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If you wanted to, you could just start it up
Well, just start it up
Let's get started (x4)
If you wanted to, if you wanted to
Just start it up
Let's get started
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It's five o' clock
It means it's time to start growing up
You'd rather waste away, you'd rather waste away
You're 22, but you've got nothing much to show for it
You'd rather waste away
And if you wanted to, you could just start it up
Well, just start it up
Let's get started
If you wanted to you could just start it up
Well, just start it up
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But you'd rather just waste away
Button up, shut up, and turn your life around
What would it take to get this started?
If you wanted to, you could just settle down
But you'd rather just waste away
Button up, shut up, and turn your life around
What will it take to get this started?
Blood scattered on a Boy Scouts war today
Blood scattered on a Boy Scouts war today
If you wanted to, you could just start it up
Well, just start it up
Let's get started (x4)
If you wanted to, if you wanted to
Just start it up
Let's get started
Blood scattered on a Boy Scouts war today
(Blood scattered on a Boy Scouts war today)
Blood scattered on a Boy Scouts war today
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Blood scattered on a Boy Scouts war today
(Blood scattered on a Boy Scouts war today)
Blood scattered on a Boy Scouts war today
It's five o' clock
It means it's time to start growing up
You'd rather waste away, you'd rather waste away
You're 22, but you've got nothing much to show for it
You'd rather waste away
And if you wanted to, you could just start it up
Well, just start it up
Let's get started
If you wanted to you could just start it up
Well, just start it up
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Haha. He's obviously talking to someone who is a lazy bum and won't get a job/start life. Maybe he's saying that you shouldn't take life for granted.
As for the boy scout part, I think he's making fun of this person. Not sure how that could possibly be correct, but hey.. you never know!
megasaurus, dang. They're wonderful live... you missed out on a kickass show ;)