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"
Intro
It doesn't make sense,
It doesn't feel right
Do you trust what you hear at all?
It doesn't hold true,
Why don't it feel right
Why is it so?
Verse 1
Its like
Seeking a new destination
When the home that you love is at stake
You're always making a new resolution
That you wont make the same old mistakes
It's like liking the same kind of music
It's like loving the same kind of guys
It's like taking a new road in the same direction
And livin' out the rest of your lies
Chorus:
It's like livin' left of the centre
It's like fallin' just a little too far
It's like saying you never say never
Taking it too slow… Livin' just a little, too fast
Too fast
Verse 2:
What the deal with all these happy endings, when
Not a single one is true
'Cause nothing lasts forever
And it's sad when it ends
So it's only really happy when it's new
And why keep on saying that our lives are short
Is there anything that I can do that's longer?
And why try to make it so we all get along
And say that if it doesn't kill us it'll only make us stronger?
Stronger…
Chorus:
It's like livin' left of the centre
It's like fallin' just a little too far
It' like sayin'you never say never
Taking it too slow
Livin' just a little, Livin' just a little too
Livin' left of the centre
It's like fallin' just a little too far
It's like saying you never say never
then taking it to slow
Livin' just a little,
Livin' just a little too fast… Too fast
It doesn't make sense,
It doesn't feel right
Do you trust what you hear at all?
It doesn't hold true,
Why don't it feel right
Why is it so?
Verse 1
Its like
Seeking a new destination
When the home that you love is at stake
You're always making a new resolution
That you wont make the same old mistakes
It's like liking the same kind of music
It's like loving the same kind of guys
It's like taking a new road in the same direction
And livin' out the rest of your lies
Chorus:
It's like livin' left of the centre
It's like fallin' just a little too far
It's like saying you never say never
Taking it too slow… Livin' just a little, too fast
Too fast
Verse 2:
What the deal with all these happy endings, when
Not a single one is true
'Cause nothing lasts forever
And it's sad when it ends
So it's only really happy when it's new
And why keep on saying that our lives are short
Is there anything that I can do that's longer?
And why try to make it so we all get along
And say that if it doesn't kill us it'll only make us stronger?
Stronger…
Chorus:
It's like livin' left of the centre
It's like fallin' just a little too far
It' like sayin'you never say never
Taking it too slow
Livin' just a little, Livin' just a little too
Livin' left of the centre
It's like fallin' just a little too far
It's like saying you never say never
then taking it to slow
Livin' just a little,
Livin' just a little too fast… Too fast
Lyrics submitted by Morgan-Elizabeth
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