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"
Shouldn’t let ‘em know all the shit that you can take
They’ll just shovel more of it right back in your face
Never show your tears don’t show them you’re afraid
Bottle up your life so you never feel ashamed
you don’t try and you don’t care
But you don’t wanna hang your old hat just anywhere
you fit in and you keep quiet and pretend that
you don’t know that there’s a black man in Simi Valley
everybody runs everybody hides
Using everybody else’s problems as a way to disguise
What they really want - what they really need
Focus on your own maybe you will judge a little less of things
Simmer down now simmer down down
Circus rolled in and out and they don’t need another clown
Whatcha gonna do now you’re feeling left out
Are you gonna throw your stones at the black man in Simi Valley
Maybe you’re a black man - Maybe you’re a white girl
Maybe you’re a gay boy - Living in a straight world.
Maybe I can see but I don’t wanna say
Cuz you like it where you are - everything is ok
and you don’t wanna know that there’s a black man in Simi Valley
Who you gonna be whacha gonna say
when they come to tell you that you’re gonna have live this way.
What’s it gonna take. how you gonna get through
When you’re standing all alone and it all comes back to you.
Either way – anyway – up and down - everyday
Nothing new – nothing changed – you can’t handle nothing strange
Who you gonna sue – who you gonna undue
When you figure out there’s a black man in Simi Valley
Maybe you’re a black man - Maybe you’re a white girl
Maybe you’re a gay boy - Living in a straight world.
Maybe you’re a diva – stuck paying with food stamps
Maybe you’re the next star – who never got your big chance
Everybody’s always in my way - Everybody’s needle’s in my vein…
Everybody’s always in my way so everybody maybe you can move
Shouldn’t let ‘em see all the crap that you can take
They’ll just shovel more of it back - back into your face
Never show your fears never own up to your mistakes
Just ignore your mind so you never feel the shame
you don’t try and you don’t care
But you don’t wanna hang your fat hat just anywhere
So you sit tight and you keep quiet and pretend that there’s not
16 million black men – 100 million white girls
Almost a million gay boys - Living in the same world.
13 million diva’s – fighting over food stamps
and somewhere there’s a good guy – I hope he gets a fair chance.
Maybe I can see but I don’t wanna say
Cuz you like it where you are - everything is ok
And you don’t wanna know that there’s a black man in Simi Valley
They’ll just shovel more of it right back in your face
Never show your tears don’t show them you’re afraid
Bottle up your life so you never feel ashamed
you don’t try and you don’t care
But you don’t wanna hang your old hat just anywhere
you fit in and you keep quiet and pretend that
you don’t know that there’s a black man in Simi Valley
everybody runs everybody hides
Using everybody else’s problems as a way to disguise
What they really want - what they really need
Focus on your own maybe you will judge a little less of things
Simmer down now simmer down down
Circus rolled in and out and they don’t need another clown
Whatcha gonna do now you’re feeling left out
Are you gonna throw your stones at the black man in Simi Valley
Maybe you’re a black man - Maybe you’re a white girl
Maybe you’re a gay boy - Living in a straight world.
Maybe I can see but I don’t wanna say
Cuz you like it where you are - everything is ok
and you don’t wanna know that there’s a black man in Simi Valley
Who you gonna be whacha gonna say
when they come to tell you that you’re gonna have live this way.
What’s it gonna take. how you gonna get through
When you’re standing all alone and it all comes back to you.
Either way – anyway – up and down - everyday
Nothing new – nothing changed – you can’t handle nothing strange
Who you gonna sue – who you gonna undue
When you figure out there’s a black man in Simi Valley
Maybe you’re a black man - Maybe you’re a white girl
Maybe you’re a gay boy - Living in a straight world.
Maybe you’re a diva – stuck paying with food stamps
Maybe you’re the next star – who never got your big chance
Everybody’s always in my way - Everybody’s needle’s in my vein…
Everybody’s always in my way so everybody maybe you can move
Shouldn’t let ‘em see all the crap that you can take
They’ll just shovel more of it back - back into your face
Never show your fears never own up to your mistakes
Just ignore your mind so you never feel the shame
you don’t try and you don’t care
But you don’t wanna hang your fat hat just anywhere
So you sit tight and you keep quiet and pretend that there’s not
16 million black men – 100 million white girls
Almost a million gay boys - Living in the same world.
13 million diva’s – fighting over food stamps
and somewhere there’s a good guy – I hope he gets a fair chance.
Maybe I can see but I don’t wanna say
Cuz you like it where you are - everything is ok
And you don’t wanna know that there’s a black man in Simi Valley
Lyrics submitted by VampedVixen
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