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"
Wake up in the morning
Lookin' a little rough
Today I don't know who I am
Today that's not enough
So I go up to the mirror
Strike another pose
Happy, sad, good, bad
With every change of clothes
But everything I see is me, yeah, me
I'm the girl in the band
The world looks good from where I stand
If you hear me raise your hand
For the girl in the band
Let the party begin
I'm feelin' good inside my skin
With the world at my command
I'm the girl in the band
Ain't no doubt about it
You can tell by the way I walk
I'm cruisin' by, head held high
I can talk the talk
One, two, three, four
Oh, ready or not
I've got to put it on the line
Gotta show you what I've got
And I know what you see is me, yeah, me
I'm the girl in the band
The world looks good from where I stand
If you hear me raise your hand
For the girl in the band
Let the party begin
I'm feelin' good inside my skin
With the world at my command
I'm the girl in the band
Why, oh, why ain't I?
I just want what's mine
(What's mine and nothin' more)
Time, it's time, it's time
(Time to let it all out strong)
I just want to sing my song
Hey, you, get outta your seat
Get over yourself
Get on the beat
Hey, you, get off of your cloud
Come down to Earth
Get into the crowd
And I know what you see is me
I'm the girl in the band
The world looks good from where I stand
If you hear me raise your hand
For the girl in the band
Let the party begin
I'm feelin' good inside my skin
With the world at my command
I'm the girl in the band
I'm the girl in the band
Lookin' a little rough
Today I don't know who I am
Today that's not enough
So I go up to the mirror
Strike another pose
Happy, sad, good, bad
With every change of clothes
But everything I see is me, yeah, me
I'm the girl in the band
The world looks good from where I stand
If you hear me raise your hand
For the girl in the band
Let the party begin
I'm feelin' good inside my skin
With the world at my command
I'm the girl in the band
Ain't no doubt about it
You can tell by the way I walk
I'm cruisin' by, head held high
I can talk the talk
One, two, three, four
Oh, ready or not
I've got to put it on the line
Gotta show you what I've got
And I know what you see is me, yeah, me
I'm the girl in the band
The world looks good from where I stand
If you hear me raise your hand
For the girl in the band
Let the party begin
I'm feelin' good inside my skin
With the world at my command
I'm the girl in the band
Why, oh, why ain't I?
I just want what's mine
(What's mine and nothin' more)
Time, it's time, it's time
(Time to let it all out strong)
I just want to sing my song
Hey, you, get outta your seat
Get over yourself
Get on the beat
Hey, you, get off of your cloud
Come down to Earth
Get into the crowd
And I know what you see is me
I'm the girl in the band
The world looks good from where I stand
If you hear me raise your hand
For the girl in the band
Let the party begin
I'm feelin' good inside my skin
With the world at my command
I'm the girl in the band
I'm the girl in the band
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Girl in the Band Lyrics as written by Chico Bennett Charlie Midnight
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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