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"
Here we go.
The workers all agree the kids are getting weak
so their plane cracks and on the ceilings a filling roof sucks the South American waters so those who cannot swim will have their backs broken and by the straining eyes of those who work until they'll die.
"Do ya', do ya have any work for me? I need something to take my mind off of these eyes. (?) I need a job, oh I, I'm feeling robbed.
Oh I see the sun, I see the sun soak on my shoulders.
The mothers all agree, making babies aint what it used to be. Now they, they have decided to stop giving birth, it aint worth it, the world's overpopulated anyway. So no more birthdays.
Dont you wonder why she doesn't poke you in the eye. Do ya, do ya have a family for me? I need something to help with what's been a pain in the eye? I need a wife, oh I, I need another life.
Do ya, do ya have a house for me? I need something big, I can hide from myself in. I need a wall so I can't see anything at all.
Oh I see the sun, I see the sun soak in my shoulders. I see the sun, I see the sun a sober shoulder. I see the sun, I see the sun over my shoulders. Now I have to run later on when its colder. I see the sun, I see the sun over my shoulder. I see the sun, I see the sun over my shoulder. When she run's, she has to run. I could hardly hold her. See the sun, I see the sun, it's over my shoulder. I see the sun.
Oh but you gotta give it up, you gotta give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. But you gotta give it up, you gotta give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. But you gotta give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. But you gotta give it up...
The workers all agree the kids are getting weak
so their plane cracks and on the ceilings a filling roof sucks the South American waters so those who cannot swim will have their backs broken and by the straining eyes of those who work until they'll die.
"Do ya', do ya have any work for me? I need something to take my mind off of these eyes. (?) I need a job, oh I, I'm feeling robbed.
Oh I see the sun, I see the sun soak on my shoulders.
The mothers all agree, making babies aint what it used to be. Now they, they have decided to stop giving birth, it aint worth it, the world's overpopulated anyway. So no more birthdays.
Dont you wonder why she doesn't poke you in the eye. Do ya, do ya have a family for me? I need something to help with what's been a pain in the eye? I need a wife, oh I, I need another life.
Do ya, do ya have a house for me? I need something big, I can hide from myself in. I need a wall so I can't see anything at all.
Oh I see the sun, I see the sun soak in my shoulders. I see the sun, I see the sun a sober shoulder. I see the sun, I see the sun over my shoulders. Now I have to run later on when its colder. I see the sun, I see the sun over my shoulder. I see the sun, I see the sun over my shoulder. When she run's, she has to run. I could hardly hold her. See the sun, I see the sun, it's over my shoulder. I see the sun.
Oh but you gotta give it up, you gotta give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. But you gotta give it up, you gotta give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. But you gotta give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. But you gotta give it up...
Lyrics submitted by WadeAppleton
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