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"
[v1]
d-d-d-dont stop chasing
give it all you got
you never know what's waiting for you
and we'll be the ones that'll lift you up
t-t-try your hardest not to be let down
not everyones a winner but there's
plenty of girls that are in this town so
[bridge]
hold on tight
dont give in!
[chrous]
Live for us!
bury every awful thought
thats grown within you and
come with us to find a new year
(ohh) dont let her get you down
we'll be having fun there's nothing that could stop us now so come with us and sing it loud ya
[v2]
What you gonna do when she defeats you
tell me, tell me, tell me how you will feel
there isnt a thing that we could do to
pull you back up and start you over
(live for us) What you gonna do when she defeats you
tell me, tell me, tell me how you will feel
there isnt a thing that we could do to
pull you back up and start you over.
[chrous]
Live for us!
bury every awful thought
thats grown within you and
come with us to find a new year
(ohh) dont let her get you down
we'll be having fun there's nothing that could stop us now so come with us and sing it loud ya
[v3]
la-de-da-de-da-da-da-daaaaa-da
la-de-da-de-da-da-da-da-da ooohhh
live for us
bury every awful thought that grown within you and
come with us to find a new year
dont let her get you down we'll be having fun there's nothing that could stop us now so come with us and sing it loud ya
dont let her get you down we'll be having fun there's nothing that could stop us now so
come with us and sing it loud ya
dont (live for us) let her get you down we'll be (live for us) having fun there's nothing that could stop (live for us) us now so come with us and sing it loud ya.
ahhh ya yo!
d-d-d-dont stop chasing
give it all you got
you never know what's waiting for you
and we'll be the ones that'll lift you up
t-t-try your hardest not to be let down
not everyones a winner but there's
plenty of girls that are in this town so
[bridge]
hold on tight
dont give in!
[chrous]
Live for us!
bury every awful thought
thats grown within you and
come with us to find a new year
(ohh) dont let her get you down
we'll be having fun there's nothing that could stop us now so come with us and sing it loud ya
[v2]
What you gonna do when she defeats you
tell me, tell me, tell me how you will feel
there isnt a thing that we could do to
pull you back up and start you over
(live for us) What you gonna do when she defeats you
tell me, tell me, tell me how you will feel
there isnt a thing that we could do to
pull you back up and start you over.
[chrous]
Live for us!
bury every awful thought
thats grown within you and
come with us to find a new year
(ohh) dont let her get you down
we'll be having fun there's nothing that could stop us now so come with us and sing it loud ya
[v3]
la-de-da-de-da-da-da-daaaaa-da
la-de-da-de-da-da-da-da-da ooohhh
live for us
bury every awful thought that grown within you and
come with us to find a new year
dont let her get you down we'll be having fun there's nothing that could stop us now so come with us and sing it loud ya
dont let her get you down we'll be having fun there's nothing that could stop us now so
come with us and sing it loud ya
dont (live for us) let her get you down we'll be (live for us) having fun there's nothing that could stop (live for us) us now so come with us and sing it loud ya.
ahhh ya yo!
Lyrics submitted by thayne_b
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