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"
Roll with the punches
Because you know that it’s inevitable
Soon to be unforgettable, yet, totally unpredictable
I’m either calling it quits or you’re calling me out
Its not who or what you know because you’re better with nothing at all.
Sing it back to me; this is your life story
You didn’t even know it you’re trying not to blow it
Because you’re kicking back a death wish and here I am just riding out the storm
Believe me when I say that I want to give up I want to give up but its bad enough to keep me hooked just to watch you curse my name and toss and turn
Turn around and cross the line you so casually walk between function and fashion
Are you dressed to kill or dressed to impress?
Don’t act like you can do better than this.
Let me see you put your hands upon the stereo
Its spitting out a ridiculous frequency
But turn it up turn it up
Break a sweat
Cuz were just burning up and hitting up the scene that was ours to hit up
Take take me out because im ready for your best shot
Make make me out to be a bullet from the pulpit
Or anything that would make you believe
All that weve seen would be just another scene
That was our to hit up
Play it back for me, if you feel you've got to
Do you want to call it intuition
Cuz after intermission we’ll be flashing the house lights
To let you know that we’re back in action
Simply for your satisfaction
Turn around and cross the line you so casually walk between function and fashion
Are you dressed to kill or dressed to impress?
Don’t act like you can do better than this
Turn around and cross the line you so casually walk between function and fashion
Are you dressed to kill or dressed to impress?
Don’t act like you can do better than this
Let me see you put your hands upon the stereo
Its spitting out a ridiculous frequency
But turn it up turn it up
Break a sweat
Cuz were just burning up and hitting up the scene that was ours to hit up
Take take me out because im ready for your best shot
Make make me out to be a bullet from the pulpit
Or anything that would make you believe
All that weve seen would be just another scene
That was our to hit up
Roll with the punches
Because you know that it’s inevitable
Soon to be unforgettable, we're either calling it quits or you’re calling me out
Its not who or what you know because you’re better with nothing at all.
Roll with the punches
you’re better with nothing at all.
Roll with the punches
Let me see you put your hands upon the stereo
Its spitting out a ridiculous frequency
But turn it up turn it up
Break a sweat
Cuz were just burning up and hitting up the scene that was ours to hit up
Take take me out because im ready for your best shot
Make make me out to be a bullet from the pulpit
Or anything that would make you believe
All that weve seen would be just another scene
That was our to hit up
Because you know that it’s inevitable
Soon to be unforgettable, yet, totally unpredictable
I’m either calling it quits or you’re calling me out
Its not who or what you know because you’re better with nothing at all.
Sing it back to me; this is your life story
You didn’t even know it you’re trying not to blow it
Because you’re kicking back a death wish and here I am just riding out the storm
Believe me when I say that I want to give up I want to give up but its bad enough to keep me hooked just to watch you curse my name and toss and turn
Turn around and cross the line you so casually walk between function and fashion
Are you dressed to kill or dressed to impress?
Don’t act like you can do better than this.
Let me see you put your hands upon the stereo
Its spitting out a ridiculous frequency
But turn it up turn it up
Break a sweat
Cuz were just burning up and hitting up the scene that was ours to hit up
Take take me out because im ready for your best shot
Make make me out to be a bullet from the pulpit
Or anything that would make you believe
All that weve seen would be just another scene
That was our to hit up
Play it back for me, if you feel you've got to
Do you want to call it intuition
Cuz after intermission we’ll be flashing the house lights
To let you know that we’re back in action
Simply for your satisfaction
Turn around and cross the line you so casually walk between function and fashion
Are you dressed to kill or dressed to impress?
Don’t act like you can do better than this
Turn around and cross the line you so casually walk between function and fashion
Are you dressed to kill or dressed to impress?
Don’t act like you can do better than this
Let me see you put your hands upon the stereo
Its spitting out a ridiculous frequency
But turn it up turn it up
Break a sweat
Cuz were just burning up and hitting up the scene that was ours to hit up
Take take me out because im ready for your best shot
Make make me out to be a bullet from the pulpit
Or anything that would make you believe
All that weve seen would be just another scene
That was our to hit up
Roll with the punches
Because you know that it’s inevitable
Soon to be unforgettable, we're either calling it quits or you’re calling me out
Its not who or what you know because you’re better with nothing at all.
Roll with the punches
you’re better with nothing at all.
Roll with the punches
Let me see you put your hands upon the stereo
Its spitting out a ridiculous frequency
But turn it up turn it up
Break a sweat
Cuz were just burning up and hitting up the scene that was ours to hit up
Take take me out because im ready for your best shot
Make make me out to be a bullet from the pulpit
Or anything that would make you believe
All that weve seen would be just another scene
That was our to hit up
Lyrics submitted by yayjello
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