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'm a halfhearted fool with a heart that's broke in two
A quarter and a kiss is all I should be worth to you
I must be the last of my kind, 'cause you treasure me despite all the signs
But love is disappearing, and darlin', you shouldn't even try
After every fight, we always wonder what we're fighting for
Mint me up and mark me, yeah, you stole me but I am not yours
As you cry, I wanna lie say, "i love you so"
Darlin' even though I don't
There's no easy way to ease the pain
Woah, roses and the tulips have withered away
They had their day
So it's time to say goodnight and goodbye
You're so bright that you shine right through
All the problems that I always try to lay on you
Won't you take me off trial, and won't you get some air in this room?
I can't believe in what I cannot hold inside of my hand
Won't let nobody in who might decide to mess up the plan
I'd be a liar if I told you that we would work out
After every fight, we always wonder what we're fighting for
Mint me up and mark me, yeah, you stole me but I am not yours
As you cry, I wanna lie say, "i love you so"
Darlin' even though I don't
There's no easy way to ease the pain
Woah, roses and the tulips have withered away
They had their day
And so it's time to say goodnight and goodbye
Nobody's singing about you anymore
You thought you heard it well, you must have heard wrong
It's my business and that's alright
Don't you see that?
As you cry, I wanna lie say, "i love you so"
Darlin' even though I don't
There's no easy way to ease the pain
Woah, the roses and the tulips have withered away
They had their day
And so it's time to say goodnight and goodbye
Goodbye
A quarter and a kiss is all I should be worth to you
I must be the last of my kind, 'cause you treasure me despite all the signs
But love is disappearing, and darlin', you shouldn't even try
After every fight, we always wonder what we're fighting for
Mint me up and mark me, yeah, you stole me but I am not yours
As you cry, I wanna lie say, "i love you so"
Darlin' even though I don't
There's no easy way to ease the pain
Woah, roses and the tulips have withered away
They had their day
So it's time to say goodnight and goodbye
You're so bright that you shine right through
All the problems that I always try to lay on you
Won't you take me off trial, and won't you get some air in this room?
I can't believe in what I cannot hold inside of my hand
Won't let nobody in who might decide to mess up the plan
I'd be a liar if I told you that we would work out
After every fight, we always wonder what we're fighting for
Mint me up and mark me, yeah, you stole me but I am not yours
As you cry, I wanna lie say, "i love you so"
Darlin' even though I don't
There's no easy way to ease the pain
Woah, roses and the tulips have withered away
They had their day
And so it's time to say goodnight and goodbye
Nobody's singing about you anymore
You thought you heard it well, you must have heard wrong
It's my business and that's alright
Don't you see that?
As you cry, I wanna lie say, "i love you so"
Darlin' even though I don't
There's no easy way to ease the pain
Woah, the roses and the tulips have withered away
They had their day
And so it's time to say goodnight and goodbye
Goodbye
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
As You Cry Lyrics as written by Robert Samuel Morris
Lyrics © Songtrust Ave
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