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"
You're never gonna understand what you're seeing
Though later you'll pretend you can and you'll mean it
You might think it's all in your head but you're not certain anymore
You might think it's all in your head but you're not certain anymore
I wouldn't put much talk in that cause the fact is
It doesn't matter what you ask, it's who you're asking
Well, I'd say go throw it away if it's not working anymore
Well, I'd say go throw it away if it's not working anymore
I promise this is not a test
It's just I want you to be sure
It all comes back to common sense
I guess that's what you're looking for
I'll have to ask you to speak up so we're sure that
We're all perfectly clear on what we're ignoring
Well, I'd say go throw it away if it's not working anymore
Well, I'd say go throw it away if it's not working anymore
I promise this is not a test
It's just I want you to be sure
It all comes back to common sense
I guess that's what you're looking for
I promise this is not a test
It's just I want you to be sure
It all comes back to common sense
I guess that's what you're looking for
Well, you've been taken and it's gonna hurt
But loves a classic cause it always works
This is a classic bluff because it always works on you
I promise this is not a test, a test
I promise this is not a test
I promise this is not a test
It's just I want you to be sure
It all comes back to common sense
Oh, I guess that's what you're looking for
I promise this is not a test
It's just I want you to be sure
It all comes back to common sense
I guess that's what you're looking for
Though later you'll pretend you can and you'll mean it
You might think it's all in your head but you're not certain anymore
You might think it's all in your head but you're not certain anymore
I wouldn't put much talk in that cause the fact is
It doesn't matter what you ask, it's who you're asking
Well, I'd say go throw it away if it's not working anymore
Well, I'd say go throw it away if it's not working anymore
I promise this is not a test
It's just I want you to be sure
It all comes back to common sense
I guess that's what you're looking for
I'll have to ask you to speak up so we're sure that
We're all perfectly clear on what we're ignoring
Well, I'd say go throw it away if it's not working anymore
Well, I'd say go throw it away if it's not working anymore
I promise this is not a test
It's just I want you to be sure
It all comes back to common sense
I guess that's what you're looking for
I promise this is not a test
It's just I want you to be sure
It all comes back to common sense
I guess that's what you're looking for
Well, you've been taken and it's gonna hurt
But loves a classic cause it always works
This is a classic bluff because it always works on you
I promise this is not a test, a test
I promise this is not a test
I promise this is not a test
It's just I want you to be sure
It all comes back to common sense
Oh, I guess that's what you're looking for
I promise this is not a test
It's just I want you to be sure
It all comes back to common sense
I guess that's what you're looking for
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Great song. Sounds a bit like it's by Duran Duran or something. And that is an EXCELLENT THING.
Whoa. When I first heard this song, I was like, "this is NOT We Are Scientists." but this song is still freaking AWESOME!
jus seen it live last nite played it jus b4 its a hit at the end..brilliant :)
LOVE this song. Keep trying to make the boyf listen to it cos he loves 80's music but he's resisted so far, i will catch him eventually!!!
"I wouldn’t put much stock in fact ‘cause the fact is It doesn’t matter what you ask, it’s who you’re asking"
Absolutely brilliant, in my opinion, and so true. Everything is relative when it all comes down to it. Speaking of relativity and opinions, I have no idea what this song could be about. Anybody?
I mean, I have an idea of it being about faking something ("You’re never gonna understand what you’re seeing / Though later you’ll pretend you did and you’ll mean it") and just being uncertain about yourself and what you're faking ("You might think it’s all in your head but you’re not certain anymore") and everyone knows that you're faking whatever it is because you're so unsure and you keep asking people about what they think, but they just tell you to form your own opinion on it ("It all comes back to common sense, I guess that’s what you’re looking for").
That's just my take on it. It doesn't seem to hold up through the entire song though... Anyway, it's a great song. :)
great song :) by the by, its 'line' not 'bluff' "the lines a classic cause it always works this is a classic line, because it always works on you"
and its quite hard to work out what its about im guessing its about deception, and conning people, that kind of thing
i like to think this song is about him being interested in a girl but he feels shes interested in him for the wrong reasons, as if he swept her off her feet and she took to it too well and he doesnt think shes really interested,
idk whatevs