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"
Empty frames on the floor
There's nothing left to prove who I was before
I'll burn the pictures before I leave
And wipe my prints off from the scene
The embers will help me to grieve
[Chorus]
I need a drink to take
To take me through the day
Sometimes I lie awake
And think of my mistakes
Was there ever a time when
We weren't dying
And I wasn't lying?
I know I fucked up
The last two years of your life.
Empty boxes by the door
I'm throwing out all the clothes that I once wore
They just don't seem to fit my shape right now
My appetite for holding on has been washed down.
I'm on a liquid diet of
Cheap beer and wasted love
Tomorrow I will pay the price
[Chorus]
I need a drink to take
To take me through the day
Sometimes I lie awake
And think of my mistakes
Was there ever a time when
We weren't dying
And I wasn't lying?
I know I fucked up
This is my last goodbye
I've hurt you enough
I know the morning's going to hurt
But fuck it cause I know this works
"So just take out another glass and pour."
Send the shivers down my spine
Calm the shakes with rotten wine
If I don't get out of this house I'll die
Or waste more of my life.
[Chorus]
I need a drink to take
To take me through the day
Sometimes I lie awake
And think of my mistakes
Was there ever a time when
We weren't dying
And I wasn't lying?
I know I fucked up
This is my last goodbye
I've hurt you enough
There's nothing left to prove who I was before
I'll burn the pictures before I leave
And wipe my prints off from the scene
The embers will help me to grieve
[Chorus]
I need a drink to take
To take me through the day
Sometimes I lie awake
And think of my mistakes
Was there ever a time when
We weren't dying
And I wasn't lying?
I know I fucked up
The last two years of your life.
Empty boxes by the door
I'm throwing out all the clothes that I once wore
They just don't seem to fit my shape right now
My appetite for holding on has been washed down.
I'm on a liquid diet of
Cheap beer and wasted love
Tomorrow I will pay the price
[Chorus]
I need a drink to take
To take me through the day
Sometimes I lie awake
And think of my mistakes
Was there ever a time when
We weren't dying
And I wasn't lying?
I know I fucked up
This is my last goodbye
I've hurt you enough
I know the morning's going to hurt
But fuck it cause I know this works
"So just take out another glass and pour."
Send the shivers down my spine
Calm the shakes with rotten wine
If I don't get out of this house I'll die
Or waste more of my life.
[Chorus]
I need a drink to take
To take me through the day
Sometimes I lie awake
And think of my mistakes
Was there ever a time when
We weren't dying
And I wasn't lying?
I know I fucked up
This is my last goodbye
I've hurt you enough
Lyrics submitted by sunnyD0101
Hair of the Dog Lyrics as written by Daniel Gerard Trapp Brian Mcternan
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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First comment...okay...This song to me is saying that he knows he's hurt her, and he just wants to apologize, and move on without doing any more damage. He says, "this is my last goodbye, I've hurt you enough". As if to say, just live your life without me, because it'll make you happier. That's just my take. Great song!
not everything is about girls, newbs. alcohol addiction 4 sure.
i agree with you
no offense nimowns. but this song is obviously about a girl. " I Fucked up the last two years of your life", "Empty frames on the floor", "...diet of cheap beer and wasted love" those are all speaking of a girl. He is crushed. In the most pure of ways, he is crushed. He doesn't want to give up loving her, and he won't but he IS going to stop hassling her with it. He knows she deserves more. And he hopes if he doesn't come to her again and again, maybe, just maybe, one day that pain will numb and scar.
One of his first changes in his life. Getting rid of the girl that only made his life miserable.
You know when your in a relationship, and it reached that part where all you are doing is lying trying to keep things intact, but its only hurting both of you.
He is done with her, he is changing.
no offense Take This Chance you did well with the other songs but he doesn't dwell much on the subject of a girl in this one. I think it's just about his problems with alcoholism. he is on his way to a change because in this song, he is realizing that his life is wasting away.
also, when he says his old clothes don't seem to fit I noticed in the new pics and Ask Buddy videos that he has put on some weight
i love the title of this song... i guess the relevance is the drinking... drinking is what fucked it up but he needs the drink to get him through the day.
the irony.
hes hurting. he wants out. but it just hurts.
its about alcohol addiction, hair of the dog is an expression used towards alcoholics
It is about both a past love and an obvious addiction to alcohol. His past relationship is over and he uses the alcohol as an escape and a crutch. The term "Hair of the Dog" actually refers to an alcoholic curing a hangover with more alcohol. Thus, the lyric "I need a drink to take me through the day".