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 like Saturdays and the rocket summer
Blue skies and the morning's air
Oh oh, oh oh
I like you, you like me
There's something wrong with this picture
Let's turn it upside down so we can see
The insecurities caused by the last four years
Of economic downsizing in the Eastern US
I like February along with Tilly and the Wall
Pretty pictures and shirts that are too small
For my child-like figure that you're so in love with
I like the autumn's leaves and bright eyes
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Stands strong in my favorites of all time
Along with you and your Technicolor eyes
You say Johnny Cash is your favorite singer
But you've never heard 'Folsom Prison Blues'
So how do you expect me to believe you?
I was never much on country songs but
Someone should really tell you to come home
'Cause it's getting late and your dinner's getting cold
I like simple songs with pretty words
I tried poetry but it's just no good
The pages get lost besides I'd much rather sing to you
I love living life with you by my side
You're a smart kid with a beautiful smile
And oh God those Technicolor eyes
I like Saturdays and the rocket summer
Night skies and that lovely stare
I like you, you like me, so let's lock all the doors
There's nothing outside we need to see
'Cause we've got love, yeah, we've got a TV
We can watch 'Friends' and all we want
And we can laugh at how I laugh like Ross when I get nervous
And we don't have to worry about tomorrow
Because we know it's gonna come
Whether we want it to or not
I like simple songs with pretty words
I tried poetry but it's just no good
The pages get lost besides I'd much rather sing to you
I love living life with you by my side
You're a smart kid with a beautiful smile
And oh God those Technicolor eyes
Blue skies and the morning's air
Oh oh, oh oh
I like you, you like me
There's something wrong with this picture
Let's turn it upside down so we can see
The insecurities caused by the last four years
Of economic downsizing in the Eastern US
I like February along with Tilly and the Wall
Pretty pictures and shirts that are too small
For my child-like figure that you're so in love with
I like the autumn's leaves and bright eyes
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Stands strong in my favorites of all time
Along with you and your Technicolor eyes
You say Johnny Cash is your favorite singer
But you've never heard 'Folsom Prison Blues'
So how do you expect me to believe you?
I was never much on country songs but
Someone should really tell you to come home
'Cause it's getting late and your dinner's getting cold
I like simple songs with pretty words
I tried poetry but it's just no good
The pages get lost besides I'd much rather sing to you
I love living life with you by my side
You're a smart kid with a beautiful smile
And oh God those Technicolor eyes
I like Saturdays and the rocket summer
Night skies and that lovely stare
I like you, you like me, so let's lock all the doors
There's nothing outside we need to see
'Cause we've got love, yeah, we've got a TV
We can watch 'Friends' and all we want
And we can laugh at how I laugh like Ross when I get nervous
And we don't have to worry about tomorrow
Because we know it's gonna come
Whether we want it to or not
I like simple songs with pretty words
I tried poetry but it's just no good
The pages get lost besides I'd much rather sing to you
I love living life with you by my side
You're a smart kid with a beautiful smile
And oh God those Technicolor eyes
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my favorite song. it makes me smile, simple life, you just have to smile.
The simple life is the best kind of life, I love love love this song
I agree his lyrics though simple, have this great way of making you smile. A lot of his songs just make me think of things I used to do, like watch "Friends" or "Boy Meets World"
this song is so amazing.. it means alot to me reminds me of this guy i really really like and its just one of those feel good songs. i like it because no one knows it
i love this song! its so cute. i reminds me of childhood, innocentness, and believing that anything can happen. simply amazing!
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i fell in love of this song when i heard this line: "I like the autumn's leaves and bright eyes eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" bright eyes and eternal sunshine are two of my favorite things.
aww yay, i first heard this song when eliza (where are yooou on here?) sang it in my garden with my sister and friends. i luurve it now very muchly xxx