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"
Oh have some heart and hold it to your chest
We weren't in love, we were too young
We throw our words around as if they were not gold
They are
Oh maybe someday I will be something more
Real with arms and legs so I can walk away and stay away forever and some more
I'll stick around and watch this town fall down to it's knees
You can pray the day that you hope is coming round real soon
I will run and stay away in a place that I don't know well of
You can chose a different song that you will soon love
Oh here are the reasons that hurt me the most
Call off the search I'm coming home
People I want, but not on the hurt
Not without reason, not for a girl
The names will vary, the names they will change
But the game, the game it stays the same.
Oh love, we want the ones that we will grow to hate, to hate
It's just so
oh no, oh no (etc)
Maybe someday I'll deserve something more
A home in which I will turn to grow
I plant the seeds so that we can become something more, something more
I'll stick around and watch this town fall down onto it's knees
You can pray the day that you hope is coming round real soon
I will run and stay away in a place I don't know well of
You can chose a different song that you will soon love
Oh here are the reasons that hurt me the most
Call off the search she's coming home
People I want, but not on the hurt
Not without reason, not for a girl
We weren't in love, we were too young
We throw our words around as if they were not gold
They are
Oh maybe someday I will be something more
Real with arms and legs so I can walk away and stay away forever and some more
I'll stick around and watch this town fall down to it's knees
You can pray the day that you hope is coming round real soon
I will run and stay away in a place that I don't know well of
You can chose a different song that you will soon love
Oh here are the reasons that hurt me the most
Call off the search I'm coming home
People I want, but not on the hurt
Not without reason, not for a girl
The names will vary, the names they will change
But the game, the game it stays the same.
Oh love, we want the ones that we will grow to hate, to hate
It's just so
oh no, oh no (etc)
Maybe someday I'll deserve something more
A home in which I will turn to grow
I plant the seeds so that we can become something more, something more
I'll stick around and watch this town fall down onto it's knees
You can pray the day that you hope is coming round real soon
I will run and stay away in a place I don't know well of
You can chose a different song that you will soon love
Oh here are the reasons that hurt me the most
Call off the search she's coming home
People I want, but not on the hurt
Not without reason, not for a girl
Lyrics submitted by Lexington!, edited by ohhjill
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comment virginity...pwned =] i frigging love this song, sorry if some lyrics are wrong, its really hard to hear him!
but i think its about loving someone you dont want to, and hating the feeling it gives you
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but i think its about loving someone you dont want to, and hating the feeling it gives you
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