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"
Today it’s in the air again,
Today another incident that just went up.
No way, this time I will not take the blame,
It’s pretty obvious who needs to shut up.
Ashtrays filled with the fruits of our transgressions,
Here and there sarcasm overflows.
To stay, I need the sitcom to be rerun
Till I get the gist of just how it goes.
So what would you have me do?
Give me a reason, come on and make my day,
Cos I’m out of cheeks to turn the other way.
Ask yourself just how lucky do you feel?
Somehow I’ve been blindsided by my own
Kindhearted notion of just who we are.
No doubt we’d have collided anyway
With me endicted and you raising alarm.
First round I’ll take my bows into my corner,
Take the vows, regroup and run back again.
Blood hound and of no better pedigree
Than what you see, so you could not offend.
Did I act like a fool cos I didn’t know what to do when you gave me just a little bit more than I bargained for,
A little too much in my hands when my hands are tied.
It’s the ultimate fling to go frolicking, licking the muck from the soles of the boots of your pride.
Every time you lied!
Give me a reason, come on and make my day,
Cos I’m out of cheeks to turn the other way.
Ask yourself just how lucky do you feel?
Give me a reason, come on and make my day,
So come out tears now, someones gota pay.
Ask yourself just how lucky do you feel?
Ooh, yeah, give me a reason.
Yeah, make my day.
('Cos someone's gota pay)
Can you give me a reason.
I’m moving into grace
Something I can hold on, at the end of the day.
Cos I can’t move on till, I know whats the deal.
Give me a reason, come on and make my day,
Cos I’m out of cheeks to turn the other way.
Ask yourself just how lucky do you feel?
Give me a reason, come on and make my day,
So come out tears now, someones gota pay.
Ask yourself just how lucky do you feel?
Today another incident that just went up.
No way, this time I will not take the blame,
It’s pretty obvious who needs to shut up.
Ashtrays filled with the fruits of our transgressions,
Here and there sarcasm overflows.
To stay, I need the sitcom to be rerun
Till I get the gist of just how it goes.
So what would you have me do?
Give me a reason, come on and make my day,
Cos I’m out of cheeks to turn the other way.
Ask yourself just how lucky do you feel?
Somehow I’ve been blindsided by my own
Kindhearted notion of just who we are.
No doubt we’d have collided anyway
With me endicted and you raising alarm.
First round I’ll take my bows into my corner,
Take the vows, regroup and run back again.
Blood hound and of no better pedigree
Than what you see, so you could not offend.
Did I act like a fool cos I didn’t know what to do when you gave me just a little bit more than I bargained for,
A little too much in my hands when my hands are tied.
It’s the ultimate fling to go frolicking, licking the muck from the soles of the boots of your pride.
Every time you lied!
Give me a reason, come on and make my day,
Cos I’m out of cheeks to turn the other way.
Ask yourself just how lucky do you feel?
Give me a reason, come on and make my day,
So come out tears now, someones gota pay.
Ask yourself just how lucky do you feel?
Ooh, yeah, give me a reason.
Yeah, make my day.
('Cos someone's gota pay)
Can you give me a reason.
I’m moving into grace
Something I can hold on, at the end of the day.
Cos I can’t move on till, I know whats the deal.
Give me a reason, come on and make my day,
Cos I’m out of cheeks to turn the other way.
Ask yourself just how lucky do you feel?
Give me a reason, come on and make my day,
So come out tears now, someones gota pay.
Ask yourself just how lucky do you feel?
Lyrics submitted by lurtzz
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