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"
Oh no, love just leaves you bruised
If you want to know, you find something to lose
The world won't turn until something breaks
Who will make the first last mistake?
They say that good things come to those who wait
Into the spiral, your world and my world, it's never final
Love just leaves you bruised
I went because you said you'd be there
A box of candy, smoke in your hair
I didn't know, I didn't care
But now I know
Love just leaves you bruised
Oh no, did love just leave you screwed?
You gotta go slow
Cos love just leaves you bruised
Into the spiral, your world and my world, it's never final
Love just leaves you bruised
I went because you said you'd be there
A box of candy, smoke in your hair
I didn't know, I didn't care
But now I know
Love just leaves you bruised
And I've got the scars to prove it
I went because you said you'd be there
A box of candy, smoke in your hair
Explain it to me again and again
Like I care
Love just leaves you
The world won't turn until something breaks
Who will make the first last mistake?
Good things come to those who wait
Well I can't wait
I went because you said you'd be there
A box of candy smoke in your hair
I didn't know, I didn't care
But now I know
If you want to know, you find something to lose
The world won't turn until something breaks
Who will make the first last mistake?
They say that good things come to those who wait
Into the spiral, your world and my world, it's never final
Love just leaves you bruised
I went because you said you'd be there
A box of candy, smoke in your hair
I didn't know, I didn't care
But now I know
Love just leaves you bruised
Oh no, did love just leave you screwed?
You gotta go slow
Cos love just leaves you bruised
Into the spiral, your world and my world, it's never final
Love just leaves you bruised
I went because you said you'd be there
A box of candy, smoke in your hair
I didn't know, I didn't care
But now I know
Love just leaves you bruised
And I've got the scars to prove it
I went because you said you'd be there
A box of candy, smoke in your hair
Explain it to me again and again
Like I care
Love just leaves you
The world won't turn until something breaks
Who will make the first last mistake?
Good things come to those who wait
Well I can't wait
I went because you said you'd be there
A box of candy smoke in your hair
I didn't know, I didn't care
But now I know
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Let me start out by saying, I LOVE THIS SONG...
Okay.. I was thinking about the line
I went because you said you'd be there a box of candy, smoke in your hair when I didn't know I didn't care but now I know, love just leaves you bruised
and I've always taken it to be just what it said...
a guy goes to a bar or something to meet a girl, brings her chocolate.. blah....
but I was thinking, maybe it's more than that.
Like, I was friends with this girl but I knew she was emotionally unavailable, so I didn't "let myself fall" for her... but then she started flirting with me and the next thing I knew, bam, I had fallen.
So it's like... "I went because you said you'd be there" means "I let myself fall for you because you said you'd catch me."
And the line "box of chocolates" could mean you went into it (bar/relationship) thinking that it would be a box of chocolates and what you got was "smoke in your hair"...
See where I'm going with this?
cool song.
sooooo good
fabulous but it's the bens, not ben folds, it's from a collaboration he did with ben lee and ben kweller
ben folds wrote this song
Yeah it was the bens, but Ben Folds released it on supersunnyspeedgraphic, the ep
I don't follow Bseely
I get it, bseely. I like that idea.
I really just like the whole meaning of this song...it's pretty much exactly how I've been feeling lately.
I can see this as the self-destructiveness of unrequited love. You wish you could leave the "spiral" but ultimately it's either "your world or my world."
Maybe that's just because I have a massive crush on a heavy smoker. Who knows.
I think he's in love with this girl.
And she's cheated on him.
And he's devastated.
That's what I see in the lyrics at least.