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"
The morning after was the scene
It
seemed like the night before was nothing more
Than a bad dream
It felt real,
but I couldn't tell
And I ask myself
What is the measure of a man who
can't forgive?
It's left up to the weight of his words
And how he
lives within..
He's small in character
And resorts in, taking it out on
those who deserve a second chance
Well I could never be that way
So
I'll leave the past to yesterday
And I'm left with just one
question
How do we always get so close
To resolution and just give
up
Suddenly, I realized what you've done
And it gets a little harder to
say it
Don't let your habits take control
Because eventually they take
their toll
But you have to understand
You can't just swing where you
choose
Not everyone is willing to forgive you
Please get ahold of yourself
before I have to
Walk away for good
How do we always gets so close
To
resolution and just give up
Suddenly, I realized what you've done
And
it's get's a little harder to say it
Don't let your habits
take control
Because eventually they take their toll
The habit was the
gun
The inlfuence the trigger
And the bullet was your tongue
(But I
didn't buckle from the pain)
You can't live your life in a
coma
Not expecting to wake up one day
In the coffin you built with your bare
hands
And think you can just walk away
I've been over this a thousand
times before
And still you are in the wrong
If you keep this up, I
won't be around for long
It
seemed like the night before was nothing more
Than a bad dream
It felt real,
but I couldn't tell
And I ask myself
What is the measure of a man who
can't forgive?
It's left up to the weight of his words
And how he
lives within..
He's small in character
And resorts in, taking it out on
those who deserve a second chance
Well I could never be that way
So
I'll leave the past to yesterday
And I'm left with just one
question
How do we always get so close
To resolution and just give
up
Suddenly, I realized what you've done
And it gets a little harder to
say it
Don't let your habits take control
Because eventually they take
their toll
But you have to understand
You can't just swing where you
choose
Not everyone is willing to forgive you
Please get ahold of yourself
before I have to
Walk away for good
How do we always gets so close
To
resolution and just give up
Suddenly, I realized what you've done
And
it's get's a little harder to say it
Don't let your habits
take control
Because eventually they take their toll
The habit was the
gun
The inlfuence the trigger
And the bullet was your tongue
(But I
didn't buckle from the pain)
You can't live your life in a
coma
Not expecting to wake up one day
In the coffin you built with your bare
hands
And think you can just walk away
I've been over this a thousand
times before
And still you are in the wrong
If you keep this up, I
won't be around for long
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The singer is talking to the prom queen.
"How do we always get so close To resolution and just give up Suddenly, I realized what you've done And it gets a little harder to say it Don't let your habits take control Because eventually they take their toll"
He is telling her to be sure that her habits (most likely not forgiving and being unkind in general) don't take control because eventually they will have a bad effect. Hence the title "Prom Queen Has No Friends." She will lose friends.
"But you have to understand You can't just swing where you choose Not everyone is willing to forgive you"
If she keeps saying whatever she wants to people and hurting them she has to realize that not everyone is going to forgive her.
From here on is my favorite part of the song..
"The habit was the gun The influence the trigger And the bullet was your tongue (But I didn't buckle from the pain)"
Her habit (hurting people) was the gun The influence: I'm not sure for sure what this is but it is the cause. Most likely something that happened to her influenced her and in a sense pulled the trigger. The bullet: Her saying hurtful things.
Still he doesn't buckle from the pain of getting shot by her words.
"You can't live your life in a coma Not expecting to wake up one day In the coffin you built with your bare hands And think you can just walk away (And walk away)"
I think this is the most confusing part of the song. I understand the part where she is in a coffin because if she continues to hurt people she will in a sense be dead. I guess she is in a coma because she is hardly living as a result of having no friends because of the way she treats people.
"I've been over this a thousand times before And still you are in the wrong If you keep this up, I won't be around for long"
He's seen this problem before and he tells her that she's still wrong in her actions and that if it continues he will leave.
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