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 heard opposites attract so you're stuck with me
I'm like Jack Kerouac on the road for weeks
But when I come home you'll be there for me, right?
Without you I'll never make it
I got a sick sense, I got a reason to worry
And sometimes I'm dense but these thoughts come in a flurry
You say they're nonsense but I dreamt you left in a hurry
I don't think I'll ever make it alone
Annihilate, I'm wide awake
Don't walk away, I'm suffocating
Don't change your mind 'cause you'll be killing me
Hitting another all time low and there's no where left to go
Make up your mind, don't be the death of me
If you want me here I am counting down to zero
I got a panic attack like you wouldn't believe
And my breathing's out of whack like a drum machine
I know if I pass out you'd resuscitate me, right?
Without you I'll never make it
Is it okay now or did you meet someone better
Without a Mohawk with a real job and a sweater?
Leaving me shell shocked, steady getting ready for a header
I don't think I'll ever make it alone
Annihilate, I'm wide awake
Don't walk away, I'm suffocating
Don't change your mind 'cause you'll be killing me
Hitting another all time low and there's no where left to go
Make up your mind, don't be the death of me
If you want me here I am counting down to zero
Standing on the edge of the great divide
You're pushing all the right buttons to make worlds collide
Would you stab me in the back like a homicide
Or leave me buried in your bullshit like a landslide?
Are you biding your time with me
Waiting for someone better to come along?
As I sit and I scream this song
Are you biding your time with me
Waiting for someone better to come along?
If you are I proved you wrong
Both ends burn, I'll be waiting for you
I won't turn, I'll be waiting for you
Both ends burn, I'll be waiting for you
Don't change your mind 'cause you'll be killing me
Hitting at an all time low and there's no where left to go
Don't change your mind 'cause you'll be killing me
Striking at an all time low, and there's no where left to go
Make up your mind, don't be the death of me
If you want me here I am counting down to zero
I'm like Jack Kerouac on the road for weeks
But when I come home you'll be there for me, right?
Without you I'll never make it
I got a sick sense, I got a reason to worry
And sometimes I'm dense but these thoughts come in a flurry
You say they're nonsense but I dreamt you left in a hurry
I don't think I'll ever make it alone
Annihilate, I'm wide awake
Don't walk away, I'm suffocating
Don't change your mind 'cause you'll be killing me
Hitting another all time low and there's no where left to go
Make up your mind, don't be the death of me
If you want me here I am counting down to zero
I got a panic attack like you wouldn't believe
And my breathing's out of whack like a drum machine
I know if I pass out you'd resuscitate me, right?
Without you I'll never make it
Is it okay now or did you meet someone better
Without a Mohawk with a real job and a sweater?
Leaving me shell shocked, steady getting ready for a header
I don't think I'll ever make it alone
Annihilate, I'm wide awake
Don't walk away, I'm suffocating
Don't change your mind 'cause you'll be killing me
Hitting another all time low and there's no where left to go
Make up your mind, don't be the death of me
If you want me here I am counting down to zero
Standing on the edge of the great divide
You're pushing all the right buttons to make worlds collide
Would you stab me in the back like a homicide
Or leave me buried in your bullshit like a landslide?
Are you biding your time with me
Waiting for someone better to come along?
As I sit and I scream this song
Are you biding your time with me
Waiting for someone better to come along?
If you are I proved you wrong
Both ends burn, I'll be waiting for you
I won't turn, I'll be waiting for you
Both ends burn, I'll be waiting for you
Don't change your mind 'cause you'll be killing me
Hitting at an all time low and there's no where left to go
Don't change your mind 'cause you'll be killing me
Striking at an all time low, and there's no where left to go
Make up your mind, don't be the death of me
If you want me here I am counting down to zero
Lyrics submitted by Bskiffington
Morse Code for Suckers Lyrics as written by Ben Osmundson Ali Tabatabaee
Lyrics © Royalty Network Music Publishing Ltd.
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