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"
So here it is, it's just me.
A different drummer, but the same old thing.
It seems like everything is gonna be just fine.
Cause I'm having a good time.
As long as I'm staying true to myself,
Then how it is is something I can sell.
And I can sleep at night without your help, It's fine.
Cause I'm having a good time. OH!
The Scene and Herd seem to make it all just a little bit worse
And I don't wanna go down that road, Oh no, no, no.
The Scene and Herd.
I'll be the first to tell you I'm worse,
But I don't wanna go down that road. oh, no.
And I'm sorrowed that you probably magically got this song for free.
(Ha) I'm not sure if it bothers me it seems fine,
Cause I'm having a good time.
And the path I take to validate,
Everything I do means everything I create is
Knocking on the door of everything I hate, I'll decline.
Cause I'm having a good time. Whoa!
The Scene and Herd seem to make it all just a little bit worse
And I don't wanna go down that road, Oh no, no, no.
The Scene and Herd.
I'll be the first to tell you I'm worse,
But I don't wanna go down that road. oh, no.
No, No, No, No, No.
No, No, No, No, No.
Well everyone's got something on their mind,
And this is my thought, I'm just pressing time.
I'm gonna say what I want, it might not be what you want to hear.
Oh, Oh, Oh.
The Scene and Herd block out the sun like a flock of birds
And I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go.
A different drummer, but the same old thing.
It seems like everything is gonna be just fine.
Cause I'm having a good time.
As long as I'm staying true to myself,
Then how it is is something I can sell.
And I can sleep at night without your help, It's fine.
Cause I'm having a good time. OH!
The Scene and Herd seem to make it all just a little bit worse
And I don't wanna go down that road, Oh no, no, no.
The Scene and Herd.
I'll be the first to tell you I'm worse,
But I don't wanna go down that road. oh, no.
And I'm sorrowed that you probably magically got this song for free.
(Ha) I'm not sure if it bothers me it seems fine,
Cause I'm having a good time.
And the path I take to validate,
Everything I do means everything I create is
Knocking on the door of everything I hate, I'll decline.
Cause I'm having a good time. Whoa!
The Scene and Herd seem to make it all just a little bit worse
And I don't wanna go down that road, Oh no, no, no.
The Scene and Herd.
I'll be the first to tell you I'm worse,
But I don't wanna go down that road. oh, no.
No, No, No, No, No.
No, No, No, No, No.
Well everyone's got something on their mind,
And this is my thought, I'm just pressing time.
I'm gonna say what I want, it might not be what you want to hear.
Oh, Oh, Oh.
The Scene and Herd block out the sun like a flock of birds
And I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go.
Lyrics submitted by Brit0tany4, edited by Skoobasteve24
The Scene and Herd Lyrics as written by Matthew Thiessen
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Capitol CMG Publishing
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