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"
[Chorus]
All work and no play makes me a dull boy [Repeat: x4]
Live in a secret
Live in a lie
Live in a dark hole beneath the black sky
Live like a martyr and draw my last breath
Feel like an old man with a knife in my chest
Live like a transient
Live like a thief
Hide in a closet, grinding my teeth
Sit in a small room with the walls closing in
Open the shutters but everything's still dim
Payback
For all the things
I've done in my past
Payback
For everything
There are no take backs
[Chorus]
I'm not the reason
Its not my fault
Its not my problem
I'm not the cause
I'm not your scapegoat
I'm not your god
I'm not your martyr
I'd leave you all
I'm not the reason - (I'm not your scapegoat)
Its not my fault - (I'm not your god)
Its not my problem - (I'm not your martyr)
I'm not the cause - (Id leave you all)
All work and no play makes me a dull boy
Feel like a clown without my funny nose
Walk to the window break it out with my fist
Jump from the sill and I'll plunge to my death
You can me selfish whatever ya think
Throw back my pills and take a sip of my drink
Walk beneath the clouds
Walk beneath the trees
Always again envy covering me
Payback
For all the things
I've done in my past
[Chorus]
Sunshine's gone
Its all gone
By the way just so you know
Always this is how I feel
By the way just so you know
Always everyday this is how I feel
I'm not the reason
Its not my fault
Its not my problem
I'm not the cause
I'm not your scape goat (I'm not your scape goat)
I'm not your god (I'm not your god)
I'm not your martyr (I'm not your martyr)
This is how I feel (this is how I feel)
By the way just so you know
Always everyday this is how I feel
All work and no play makes me a dull boy [Repeat: x4]
Live in a secret
Live in a lie
Live in a dark hole beneath the black sky
Live like a martyr and draw my last breath
Feel like an old man with a knife in my chest
Live like a transient
Live like a thief
Hide in a closet, grinding my teeth
Sit in a small room with the walls closing in
Open the shutters but everything's still dim
Payback
For all the things
I've done in my past
Payback
For everything
There are no take backs
[Chorus]
I'm not the reason
Its not my fault
Its not my problem
I'm not the cause
I'm not your scapegoat
I'm not your god
I'm not your martyr
I'd leave you all
I'm not the reason - (I'm not your scapegoat)
Its not my fault - (I'm not your god)
Its not my problem - (I'm not your martyr)
I'm not the cause - (Id leave you all)
All work and no play makes me a dull boy
Feel like a clown without my funny nose
Walk to the window break it out with my fist
Jump from the sill and I'll plunge to my death
You can me selfish whatever ya think
Throw back my pills and take a sip of my drink
Walk beneath the clouds
Walk beneath the trees
Always again envy covering me
Payback
For all the things
I've done in my past
[Chorus]
Sunshine's gone
Its all gone
By the way just so you know
Always this is how I feel
By the way just so you know
Always everyday this is how I feel
I'm not the reason
Its not my fault
Its not my problem
I'm not the cause
I'm not your scape goat (I'm not your scape goat)
I'm not your god (I'm not your god)
I'm not your martyr (I'm not your martyr)
This is how I feel (this is how I feel)
By the way just so you know
Always everyday this is how I feel
Lyrics submitted by Karmatic Refire
Dull Boy Lyrics as written by Greg Tribbett Chad L. Gray
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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