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"
Shake 'em from the tree
stick 'em in your ear
make them think you care
because you
fake another tear
Don't know what to take
fishing in the dark
itching for a bite
and then you
catch another shark
Ringing all around
very hard to tell
break another sound
and we can
crack another bell
Matching all the cloths
itching in the legs
scratch 'em with your toes
and hatching
all the spider eggs
Happy howl and waggle
ugly gawk and gaggle
somewhere lost
from a to z
Angry are the funny
lava's hot and runny
backwards laughing at the sea
'Cause bananas
are too big to see
once my brother
threw a banana at me
we found it on the ground
'cause it fell from the tree
I ate it off the wall
it was all meant to be
poking all around
but you just don't know
demanding new bananas
that just won't grow
hit them with a sack of oats
that we just won't sow
bananas in our hands
and we won't let go
Turn it up to ten
take it as a sign
I'll probably muck it up
but let me try it
one more time
Didn't see a thing
feeling in the dark
fell in love
with that 1 tree
and rubbing
up against the bark
Tell me that I'm meek
floating out to ea
gawking at the geek
and then I find
the geek is me
Teeter on the brink
wish it all away
don't know
what to think
because they
ain't got much to say
Laughing while your yelling
smiling while your smelling
sappy underneath the ree
Clouded was the sound
crowded all around
saving face
but scraping knee
Slipping on the peels
when they fall to the floor
I hung around so long
my bananas got sore
Clapping with my hands
made 'em mad slam the door
banana in the hat
must have been there before
shaking at the trees
hope bananas fall
shaky in the knees
'cause the trunk's too tall
flakey referee
don't agree
with the call
middle of the game
run away
take the ball
Now they're throwing bananas
bananas a lot
you know that these are
all the bananas we got
gonna rain gonna rot
keep them to yourself
once again thanks a lot
I ran with the banana
I thought was mine
yellow is the reason
we run this time
the little bit of green
that we took as a sign
the closest thing to good
that we thought we could find
With 20/20 eyes
but they still can't see
yet I could feel it burn
when they look at me
beat around the bush
it's the best way to beat
and once again
they're throwing bananas
they're throwing bananas
stick 'em in your ear
make them think you care
because you
fake another tear
Don't know what to take
fishing in the dark
itching for a bite
and then you
catch another shark
Ringing all around
very hard to tell
break another sound
and we can
crack another bell
Matching all the cloths
itching in the legs
scratch 'em with your toes
and hatching
all the spider eggs
Happy howl and waggle
ugly gawk and gaggle
somewhere lost
from a to z
Angry are the funny
lava's hot and runny
backwards laughing at the sea
'Cause bananas
are too big to see
once my brother
threw a banana at me
we found it on the ground
'cause it fell from the tree
I ate it off the wall
it was all meant to be
poking all around
but you just don't know
demanding new bananas
that just won't grow
hit them with a sack of oats
that we just won't sow
bananas in our hands
and we won't let go
Turn it up to ten
take it as a sign
I'll probably muck it up
but let me try it
one more time
Didn't see a thing
feeling in the dark
fell in love
with that 1 tree
and rubbing
up against the bark
Tell me that I'm meek
floating out to ea
gawking at the geek
and then I find
the geek is me
Teeter on the brink
wish it all away
don't know
what to think
because they
ain't got much to say
Laughing while your yelling
smiling while your smelling
sappy underneath the ree
Clouded was the sound
crowded all around
saving face
but scraping knee
Slipping on the peels
when they fall to the floor
I hung around so long
my bananas got sore
Clapping with my hands
made 'em mad slam the door
banana in the hat
must have been there before
shaking at the trees
hope bananas fall
shaky in the knees
'cause the trunk's too tall
flakey referee
don't agree
with the call
middle of the game
run away
take the ball
Now they're throwing bananas
bananas a lot
you know that these are
all the bananas we got
gonna rain gonna rot
keep them to yourself
once again thanks a lot
I ran with the banana
I thought was mine
yellow is the reason
we run this time
the little bit of green
that we took as a sign
the closest thing to good
that we thought we could find
With 20/20 eyes
but they still can't see
yet I could feel it burn
when they look at me
beat around the bush
it's the best way to beat
and once again
they're throwing bananas
they're throwing bananas
Lyrics submitted by BlondTeddyBear
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