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 would climb these trees if you wouldn't let me in.
But I burned those bridges and the heat,
it all burns from within.
My mind says its your arms that wrap, around him,
and the flow of lust is all that cools if you're happy with him.
When you ask me, if i'll be alright, just to pick you up from the alleyway.
And you ask me, if i feel alright, gonna pick you up, and it's here we stay
You open the door and I follow you in.
The shock of light is all that stops our eyes from speaking.
I kiss your kips and theres a taste so clear.
Is it true that everyone knows the taste of a kiss with a tear
When you ask me, if i'll be alright, just to pick you up from the alleyway.
And you ask me, if i feel alright, gonna pick you up, and its here we stay
When you're wrong, you're wrong
when you're right, you're right
nothing means everything to us tonight.
When you're wrong, you're wrong
when you're right, you're right
nothing means everything to us tonight
I'll pick you up, pick you up, pick you up.
I'll pick you up, pick you up, pick you up.
I'll pick you up, pick you up, pick you up.
I'll pick you up, pick you up, pick you up.
When you ask me, if i'll be alright, just to pick you up from the alleyway.
And you ask me, if i feel alright, gonna pick you up, and its here we stay
When you ask me, if i'll be alright, just to pick you up from the alleyway.
And you ask me, if i feel alright, gonna pick you up, and its here we stay
When you're wrong, you're wrong
when you're right, you're right
nothing means everything to us tonight.
When you're wrong, you're wrong
when you're right, you're right
nothing means everything to us tonight
I'll pick you up, pick you up, pick you up.
I'll pick you up, pick you up, pick you up.
I'll pick you up, pick you up, pick you up.
I'll pick you up, pick you up,
But I burned those bridges and the heat,
it all burns from within.
My mind says its your arms that wrap, around him,
and the flow of lust is all that cools if you're happy with him.
When you ask me, if i'll be alright, just to pick you up from the alleyway.
And you ask me, if i feel alright, gonna pick you up, and it's here we stay
You open the door and I follow you in.
The shock of light is all that stops our eyes from speaking.
I kiss your kips and theres a taste so clear.
Is it true that everyone knows the taste of a kiss with a tear
When you ask me, if i'll be alright, just to pick you up from the alleyway.
And you ask me, if i feel alright, gonna pick you up, and its here we stay
When you're wrong, you're wrong
when you're right, you're right
nothing means everything to us tonight.
When you're wrong, you're wrong
when you're right, you're right
nothing means everything to us tonight
I'll pick you up, pick you up, pick you up.
I'll pick you up, pick you up, pick you up.
I'll pick you up, pick you up, pick you up.
I'll pick you up, pick you up, pick you up.
When you ask me, if i'll be alright, just to pick you up from the alleyway.
And you ask me, if i feel alright, gonna pick you up, and its here we stay
When you ask me, if i'll be alright, just to pick you up from the alleyway.
And you ask me, if i feel alright, gonna pick you up, and its here we stay
When you're wrong, you're wrong
when you're right, you're right
nothing means everything to us tonight.
When you're wrong, you're wrong
when you're right, you're right
nothing means everything to us tonight
I'll pick you up, pick you up, pick you up.
I'll pick you up, pick you up, pick you up.
I'll pick you up, pick you up, pick you up.
I'll pick you up, pick you up,
Lyrics submitted by rossyboy8
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i think this song may be about boy who is having an affair with a girl in another relationship. his mind is just picturing the couple together whilst wanting to be with the girl. when it says , " the flow of lust is all that cools if you're happy with him" implying that when he pictures them together the lust is all that goes, not the love or want he feels for her. "pick you up from the alleyway" implies secrecy and having to meet up where people won't see them, like in an affair. When it says "when your wrong, your wrong, when your right, your right and nothing means everything to us tonight," makes me think that they know the affair is wrong but they don't care tonight they just want to be together. this could be completely wrong but it is just my interpretation :)