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"
Late, Sunday evening
I only just feel like eating
Am I feeling unwell
For what I've done, or drunk
Or for someone might tell
I'm gonna find it hard to sleep tonight
I'm gonna find it hard to sleep
There's nothing that's been done that can't be undone
You were sick, now you're better
There's work to be done
There's nothing that's been done that can't be
undone
You are sick, now you're better
There's work to be done
Everything has been shown to me,
With only a magazine for company
Answers in the problem pages
To problems I've been having for ages
Late, Sunday evening
There's no way I'm gonna be sleeping
Am I feeling unwell
For what I've done, or drunk
Or for someone might tell
I'm gonna find it hard to sleep
There's nothing that's been done that can't be undone
You were sick, now you're better
There's work to be done
When I feel my friends have been conspiring against me
I break into their bedrooms and write in their diaries
There's nothing that's been done that can't be undone
You were sick, now you're better
There's work to be done
Everything's gonna be alright
I'm gonna find it hard to sleep tonight
Everything's gonna be alright but I'm,
I'm gonna find it hard to sleep tonight
Everything's gonna be alright but I'm,
I'm gonna find it hard to sleep tonight
Phone later if you like 'cause
I'm gonna find it hard to sleep tonight
I only just feel like eating
Am I feeling unwell
For what I've done, or drunk
Or for someone might tell
I'm gonna find it hard to sleep tonight
I'm gonna find it hard to sleep
There's nothing that's been done that can't be undone
You were sick, now you're better
There's work to be done
There's nothing that's been done that can't be
undone
You are sick, now you're better
There's work to be done
Everything has been shown to me,
With only a magazine for company
Answers in the problem pages
To problems I've been having for ages
Late, Sunday evening
There's no way I'm gonna be sleeping
Am I feeling unwell
For what I've done, or drunk
Or for someone might tell
I'm gonna find it hard to sleep
There's nothing that's been done that can't be undone
You were sick, now you're better
There's work to be done
When I feel my friends have been conspiring against me
I break into their bedrooms and write in their diaries
There's nothing that's been done that can't be undone
You were sick, now you're better
There's work to be done
Everything's gonna be alright
I'm gonna find it hard to sleep tonight
Everything's gonna be alright but I'm,
I'm gonna find it hard to sleep tonight
Everything's gonna be alright but I'm,
I'm gonna find it hard to sleep tonight
Phone later if you like 'cause
I'm gonna find it hard to sleep tonight
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"You were sick, now you're better There's work to be done"
That is from the Kurt Vonnegut novel "Timequake" I believe. It was said by Kilgore Trout.
This song is actually called 'Late Sunday Evening'
My bad.
if you uploaded the lyrics you can click edit to change the song to its proper name.
Good song.
Can't wait til the 25th
When I feel my friends have been conspiring against me I break into their bedrooms and write in their diaries - I think the above may be a reference to Morrissey's song Suedehead, and the words 'and you break into my room, just to read my diary, and the things you knew I'd written about you.' Eddie Argos is rather fond of The Smiths I gather.
He is. About Time references Morrissey as does Moving to LA. When I saw them live Eddie started Singing There Is A Light That Never Goes Out at the end of Emily Kane. I am rather fond of Art Brut.