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"
The lights in your room keep on blinking off.
And I'm on my back, on your floor.
Tell me how you fooled the world again,
I like how you laugh when you tell it.
Play dead, cause I'll be playing dead with you.
I'll play you when you're dead in a year or two.
Can you please point me to your chemicals?
I need to feel like I've got rocks in my eyelids.
The only superhero I've ever known was you, about 5 years ago.
It was you about 5 years ago.
The lights outside turn into knives on me and I forget how to get home.
It only feels like it's the summer now,
cause everyone's always wearing the wrong clothes.
Play dead, cause I'll be playing dead with you.
I'll play you when you're dead in a year or two.
Can you please point me to your chemicals?
I need to feel like I've got rocks in my eyelids.
The only superhero I've ever known was you, about 5 years ago.
It was you about 5 years ago.
I can picture your coffin in the hallway;
And your family standing inside the doorway.
They'll point all their fingers at me and say,
‘Where are your drugs? Today we need them.
Where are your drugs? We need an escape.'
[x2]
Can you please point me to your chemicals?
I need to feel like I've got rocks in my eyelids.
The only superhero I've ever known was you,
about 5 years ago, was you about 5 years ago.
Where are your drugs? Today we need them.
Where are your drugs? We need your escape.
Where are your drugs? Today we need them.
Where are your drugs? We need your escape.
Where are your drugs? Today we need them
Where are your drugs?
And I'm on my back, on your floor.
Tell me how you fooled the world again,
I like how you laugh when you tell it.
Play dead, cause I'll be playing dead with you.
I'll play you when you're dead in a year or two.
Can you please point me to your chemicals?
I need to feel like I've got rocks in my eyelids.
The only superhero I've ever known was you, about 5 years ago.
It was you about 5 years ago.
The lights outside turn into knives on me and I forget how to get home.
It only feels like it's the summer now,
cause everyone's always wearing the wrong clothes.
Play dead, cause I'll be playing dead with you.
I'll play you when you're dead in a year or two.
Can you please point me to your chemicals?
I need to feel like I've got rocks in my eyelids.
The only superhero I've ever known was you, about 5 years ago.
It was you about 5 years ago.
I can picture your coffin in the hallway;
And your family standing inside the doorway.
They'll point all their fingers at me and say,
‘Where are your drugs? Today we need them.
Where are your drugs? We need an escape.'
[x2]
Can you please point me to your chemicals?
I need to feel like I've got rocks in my eyelids.
The only superhero I've ever known was you,
about 5 years ago, was you about 5 years ago.
Where are your drugs? Today we need them.
Where are your drugs? We need your escape.
Where are your drugs? Today we need them.
Where are your drugs? We need your escape.
Where are your drugs? Today we need them
Where are your drugs?
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
Chemicals Lyrics as written by Peter James Decicco Nash Breen
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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