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"
I hope I become a ghost.
I hope I can see the end of time.
I hope I become a ghost.
And make sure the future turns out fine
I hope I become a ghost.
Oh, when the world is said and done
The stars will become so close
And there will be nowhere that I can't run
Ooooh
Ahhhh, oh
I hope I become a ghost
And watch all my grandkids growing old
Some will remember me
And others through the stories they've been told
I don't intend to frighten you
Just want to see if what I think comes true
And then and only then we'll know
If it was worth to become a ghost
Ooooh
Ahhhh, oh
There's nothing sad about it
There's nothing sad about it
Now that I've become a ghost
I don't get to laugh with friends like you
It would not have been so bad,
If people like you would have become ghosts too
There's nothing sad about it.
There's nothing sad about it.
Ooooh
Ooooh
Ooooh
Ooooh
There's nothing sad about it.
There's nothing sad about it.
There's nothing sad about it.
There's nothing sad about it.
I hope I can see the end of time.
I hope I become a ghost.
And make sure the future turns out fine
I hope I become a ghost.
Oh, when the world is said and done
The stars will become so close
And there will be nowhere that I can't run
Ooooh
Ahhhh, oh
I hope I become a ghost
And watch all my grandkids growing old
Some will remember me
And others through the stories they've been told
I don't intend to frighten you
Just want to see if what I think comes true
And then and only then we'll know
If it was worth to become a ghost
Ooooh
Ahhhh, oh
There's nothing sad about it
There's nothing sad about it
Now that I've become a ghost
I don't get to laugh with friends like you
It would not have been so bad,
If people like you would have become ghosts too
There's nothing sad about it.
There's nothing sad about it.
Ooooh
Ooooh
Ooooh
Ooooh
There's nothing sad about it.
There's nothing sad about it.
There's nothing sad about it.
There's nothing sad about it.
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Not much to think about, the song is clearly about being sad and depressed. I think it's a great song that i found from the movie "Worlds Greatest Dad" with Robin Williams. My favorite part of the song is the "Oooh Aaah Oh" part. "Now that I've become a ghost I don't get to laugh with friends like you. would not have been so bad, If people like you would have become ghosts too" It's never good to be sad and depressed, i thought a lot about suicide at one point due to big problems in my past, its not bad to listen to sad music if it makes you feel better, but anyone reading this, if your hurting, please don't do anything to hurt yourself, it will get better. i promise.
I'm sorry, but i really don't see it as a sad song at all. Everyone is going to die at one point and all he is saying is that when he dies he hopes he gets to hang around rather than just move on. He's saying he's interested to see where the world goes after he's dead - a natural curiousity i think. When he says now i've become a ghost - he's realising that it may have been a bit hasty and that it would be better if he had people to share this experience with (again, a natural human experience i think) Beyond the superficiality of it, i (personally) see someone who just wants to see beyond his life, wants to know what will happen to him and his memory, to his family and to the entire world. I think it's a song that taps into everybody's natural curiousity about what comes after.