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"
We can walk in straight lines
We can't see quite right
We've lost the plot
And we can't get it back
So lets lose ourselves
Lets lose ourselves
Can you spot the English here?
Let's pick a fight on whomever we like
Cause we're never wrong
Nobody likes us
We don't care
So let's lose ourselves
Let's lose ourselves
Can you spot the English here?
We can see it for real
But it doesn't make sense
We're the outsiders
We can see all this speech
Come staggering out
And we can climbs its way
To the top of that cloud
I'm away with the fairies now
[x4]
This familiar environment
Gets my lungs confused
I breath in every particle
That you drive through
That you drive through
Well can you spot the English here?
We can see it for real
But it doesn't make sense
We're the outsiders
We can see all this speech
Come staggering out
And it can its way to the top
Of that cloud
Oh I'm away with the fairies now
[x4]
We can't see quite right
We've lost the plot
And we can't get it back
So lets lose ourselves
Lets lose ourselves
Can you spot the English here?
Let's pick a fight on whomever we like
Cause we're never wrong
Nobody likes us
We don't care
So let's lose ourselves
Let's lose ourselves
Can you spot the English here?
We can see it for real
But it doesn't make sense
We're the outsiders
We can see all this speech
Come staggering out
And we can climbs its way
To the top of that cloud
I'm away with the fairies now
[x4]
This familiar environment
Gets my lungs confused
I breath in every particle
That you drive through
That you drive through
Well can you spot the English here?
We can see it for real
But it doesn't make sense
We're the outsiders
We can see all this speech
Come staggering out
And it can its way to the top
Of that cloud
Oh I'm away with the fairies now
[x4]
Lyrics submitted by ridicularious
The Outsiders Lyrics as written by Joel Pott Carey Willetts
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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