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"
How could you know
That behind my eyes a sad girl cried
And how could you know
That I hurt so much inside
How could you know
That I'm not the average girl
I'm carrying the weight of the world [Yeah..]
So can you get me out of here
Take me away
We`ll jump in the car
Drive till the gas runs out
And then walk so far
That we can't see this place anymore
Take a day off
Give it a rest
So I can forget about this mess
If I lighten up a little bit
I will be, Over it
I'm playing the role of the happy girl but no one knows
Inside I'm alone but I will never let it show
I get every day
Too much work and not enough play
Over and over its always the same [Yeah..]
But you can make everything okay
Take me away
We'll jump in the car
Drive till the gas runs out
And then walk so far
That we can't...see...this place anymore
Take a day off
Give it a rest
So I can forget about this mess
If I lighten up a little bit
Then I will be
Over it [Over it]
And when the world is closing in
I can leave it all and just walk away
I can always start all over again
I am closer to a better day
Take me away
Jump in the car
Drive till the gas runs out
And then walk so far
That we can't see this place anymore
Take a day off
Give it a rest
So I can forget about this mess
If I lighten up a little bit
Then I will be...
[Take me Away]
[Take me away]
Take me away
We'll jump in the car
Drive till the gas runs out
And then walk so far
And we can't...see...this place anymore
Take a day off
Give it a rest
So I can forget about this mess
If I lighten up a little bit
Then I will be...
If I lighten up a little bit
Then I will be...
Over it
[Over it]
[I am over it]
That behind my eyes a sad girl cried
And how could you know
That I hurt so much inside
How could you know
That I'm not the average girl
I'm carrying the weight of the world [Yeah..]
So can you get me out of here
Take me away
We`ll jump in the car
Drive till the gas runs out
And then walk so far
That we can't see this place anymore
Take a day off
Give it a rest
So I can forget about this mess
If I lighten up a little bit
I will be, Over it
I'm playing the role of the happy girl but no one knows
Inside I'm alone but I will never let it show
I get every day
Too much work and not enough play
Over and over its always the same [Yeah..]
But you can make everything okay
Take me away
We'll jump in the car
Drive till the gas runs out
And then walk so far
That we can't...see...this place anymore
Take a day off
Give it a rest
So I can forget about this mess
If I lighten up a little bit
Then I will be
Over it [Over it]
And when the world is closing in
I can leave it all and just walk away
I can always start all over again
I am closer to a better day
Take me away
Jump in the car
Drive till the gas runs out
And then walk so far
That we can't see this place anymore
Take a day off
Give it a rest
So I can forget about this mess
If I lighten up a little bit
Then I will be...
[Take me Away]
[Take me away]
Take me away
We'll jump in the car
Drive till the gas runs out
And then walk so far
And we can't...see...this place anymore
Take a day off
Give it a rest
So I can forget about this mess
If I lighten up a little bit
Then I will be...
If I lighten up a little bit
Then I will be...
Over it
[Over it]
[I am over it]
Lyrics submitted by catcrazy247
Over It Lyrics as written by Andrew Creighton Dodd Adam Watts
Lyrics © Walt Disney Music Company
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