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"
A man is many things
Let's count them all tonight
You're letting go of strings
Replacing them with light
But I want the hit about the teenage take on pain
There's nothing catchy about the life of a saint
But I've got this band in my head
And it's breaking me down to tears
If I scream scream scream
About a good man's life
Will you ever stop and listen
Would you open up your eyes
Would you scream with me
Sing it sad and sweet
Say goodnight, goodbye, love
In the morning you will see
Photos keep you close
With increments of light
The quiet wooden posts
The county's cold tonight
But I want the hit about the teenage take on pain
There's nothing catchy about the life of a saint
But I've got this band in my head
And it's breaking me down to tears
If I scream scream scream
About a good man's life
Will you ever stop and listen
Would you open up your eyes
Would you scream with me
Sing it sad and sweet
Say goodnight, goodbye, love
In the morning you will see
I'd rip my eyes out for you
I screamed screamed screamed
About a good man's life
Would you ever stop and listen
Would you open up your eyes
Would you scream with me
Sing it sad and sweet
Would it make you cry
Would you finally see
That all your lives are moments
All your words and closeness
Keep you here and human
Whispering tonight
All your lives are moments (So we scream)
All your words and closeness (And see as far as)
Keep you here and human (While they stand and stare)
Do you think they'll ever care
I don't care
I don't care
Let's count them all tonight
You're letting go of strings
Replacing them with light
But I want the hit about the teenage take on pain
There's nothing catchy about the life of a saint
But I've got this band in my head
And it's breaking me down to tears
If I scream scream scream
About a good man's life
Will you ever stop and listen
Would you open up your eyes
Would you scream with me
Sing it sad and sweet
Say goodnight, goodbye, love
In the morning you will see
Photos keep you close
With increments of light
The quiet wooden posts
The county's cold tonight
But I want the hit about the teenage take on pain
There's nothing catchy about the life of a saint
But I've got this band in my head
And it's breaking me down to tears
If I scream scream scream
About a good man's life
Will you ever stop and listen
Would you open up your eyes
Would you scream with me
Sing it sad and sweet
Say goodnight, goodbye, love
In the morning you will see
I'd rip my eyes out for you
I screamed screamed screamed
About a good man's life
Would you ever stop and listen
Would you open up your eyes
Would you scream with me
Sing it sad and sweet
Would it make you cry
Would you finally see
That all your lives are moments
All your words and closeness
Keep you here and human
Whispering tonight
All your lives are moments (So we scream)
All your words and closeness (And see as far as)
Keep you here and human (While they stand and stare)
Do you think they'll ever care
I don't care
I don't care
Lyrics submitted by risefromtheashes, edited by donpolilla
Scream, Scream, Scream Lyrics as written by Marshall Fanciullo Andrew Volpe
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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I haven't heard this song since they had it on myspace and they didn't play it live last time I went....I love this song right now it's my second favorite next to please. I need to hear it, I need my fix! :P