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"
Hey stop, do you hear an echo?
I do but does anyone know?
The same old thing we heard an hour ago
Different band, the same radio
We broke down on the side of the road
East Coast we had to cancel the shows
I'm tryin' as hard as I can
But I'd rather write a song than a business plan
Because this is me sayin' words I actually mean
I won't compromise this thing just to make it
I want to that's a given but
I can't imagine it the same way as you
Oh, you know I'll never do
The things they do just to make it
Sayin' so, you say got it in you?
Somethin' to say well, I don't hear it in any one of your tunes
The words you heard usually used
You got a hook, there's no book, got no soul, just a look
And this is me sayin' words I actually mean
I won't compromise this thing just to make it
I want to that's a given but
I can't imagine it the same way as you
Oh, you know I'll never do
The things they do just to make it
Do you even know what you're even sayin'?
Or you just sayin' it 'cause someone else said it
Do you even know what you're even sayin'?
Or you just sayin' it 'cause someone else said it
Do you even know what you're even sayin'?
Or you just sayin' it 'cause someone else said it
Do you even know what you're even sayin'?
Or you just sayin' it
I want to that's a given but
I can't imagine it the same way as you
Oh, you know I'll never do
The things they do just to make it
I want to that's a given but
I can't imagine it the same way as you
Oh, you know I'll never do
The things they do just to make it
I do but does anyone know?
The same old thing we heard an hour ago
Different band, the same radio
We broke down on the side of the road
East Coast we had to cancel the shows
I'm tryin' as hard as I can
But I'd rather write a song than a business plan
Because this is me sayin' words I actually mean
I won't compromise this thing just to make it
I want to that's a given but
I can't imagine it the same way as you
Oh, you know I'll never do
The things they do just to make it
Sayin' so, you say got it in you?
Somethin' to say well, I don't hear it in any one of your tunes
The words you heard usually used
You got a hook, there's no book, got no soul, just a look
And this is me sayin' words I actually mean
I won't compromise this thing just to make it
I want to that's a given but
I can't imagine it the same way as you
Oh, you know I'll never do
The things they do just to make it
Do you even know what you're even sayin'?
Or you just sayin' it 'cause someone else said it
Do you even know what you're even sayin'?
Or you just sayin' it 'cause someone else said it
Do you even know what you're even sayin'?
Or you just sayin' it 'cause someone else said it
Do you even know what you're even sayin'?
Or you just sayin' it
I want to that's a given but
I can't imagine it the same way as you
Oh, you know I'll never do
The things they do just to make it
I want to that's a given but
I can't imagine it the same way as you
Oh, you know I'll never do
The things they do just to make it
Lyrics submitted by smileforthecamera
A Song Is Not a Business Plan Lyrics as written by Stephen Bryce Avary Bryce Avary
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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i love this song. and i love him for saying this.
"Hey, stop, do you hear an echo? I do, but does anyone know? Same old thing we heard an hour ago Different band, the same radio"
i htink he's basically saying all the music nowadays sounds the same to him. no diversity or originality. it's like an echo, but its a different band. they all do the same thing, just to be famous.
"Because this is me saying words I actually mean I won't compromise this thing just to make it"
he's saying what he wants to say, and he's not gonna leave that just to make it.
"I want to, that's a given But, I can't imagine the same way as you"
is that saying that he wants to be bigger, but he can't leave what he's doing now or something??
well, those are my thoughts. im gonna shut up now.