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"
Honey is for bees silly bear,
besides there's jelly beans everywhere.
It's not what it seems in the land of dreams.
Don't worry your head just go to sleep.
It doesn't matter how you feel,
life is just a Ferris wheel,
its always up and down, don't make a sound.
When you wake up the world will come around,
when you wake up the world will come around.
It's just the sweet weather and the peacock feathers in the morning it will all be better.
It's not what it seems in the land of dreams.
Don't worry your head just go to sleep.
When you wake up the world will come around,
when you wake up the world will come around.
Honey is for bees silly bear,
besides there's jelly beans everywhere.
It's not what it seems in the land of dreams,
don't worry your head just go to sleep.
besides there's jelly beans everywhere.
It's not what it seems in the land of dreams.
Don't worry your head just go to sleep.
It doesn't matter how you feel,
life is just a Ferris wheel,
its always up and down, don't make a sound.
When you wake up the world will come around,
when you wake up the world will come around.
It's just the sweet weather and the peacock feathers in the morning it will all be better.
It's not what it seems in the land of dreams.
Don't worry your head just go to sleep.
When you wake up the world will come around,
when you wake up the world will come around.
Honey is for bees silly bear,
besides there's jelly beans everywhere.
It's not what it seems in the land of dreams,
don't worry your head just go to sleep.
Lyrics submitted by afitch1206, edited by ThatFeelWhen
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Great version of a great song,
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This song is brilliant, and just as ambiguous as any other FOB song.
"Honey is for bees silly bear, besides there's jellybeans everywhere"
I think it means that just because someone else has something great (honey), doesn't mean that is what you have to have, it is not the only good thing, there are so many other great things out there to choose from (jellybeans) I guess the bear is Bronx
Most of the rest is pretty obvious like the ferris wheel thing
"When you wake up the world will come around"
I think it means if the world isn't going the way you want it to, all you have to do is wake up and try again and it will "come around", don't give up.
I have never heard life lessons put so well for a child, Bronx is the luckiest kid.
And the bear also appear in the front-part of the CD <br /> <br /> =)
Patrick's voice is so gorgeous in this. You can just imagine it being sung to a little kid before they go to sleep. I would sing it to my kids! It's so sweet and simple. The sort of thing little kids would laugh at but understand better than most people. Love it!
patricks voice is amazing in this song. <br /> definitely going to be the lullabye for my kids when i get older<br /> (like the profile name lol)
Ahhh...goodnight moon.
how can i listen to this song on my cd? it's not working for me
i've never heard this song, how do i get it?
and i remember pete talking about this on the FOB website once, i didn't know there were actual lyrics here!
^^ on some CD players, usually like, a radio. not on the computer or anything, if you rewind while playing the first song, it'll go back and say -0:01 and it'll count up, like it's rewinding number "1", but it's really lullabye.
which song do you rewind it on?
You rewind it on track one
i knew pete wrote this as just a lullabye but i never realised they'd actually recorded it.
thats pretty sweet.
i will now try to find out if my cd player will do this (:
because this just sounds the cutest.
I do love this song terribly. I know what I am falling asleep to tonight :)
"it doesn’t matter how you feel life is just a ferris wheel it’s always up and down don’t make a sound when you wake up, the world will come around when you wake up, the world will come around"
Awww.
aw this is so cute
and clever, the way you have to rewind the first song. I want it on my ipod, but i dont know how i can put it on?
This song is brilliant, and just as ambiguous as any other FOB song.
"Honey is for bees silly bear, besides there's jellybeans everywhere"
I think it means that just because someone else has something great (honey), doesn't mean that is what you have to have, it is not the only good thing, there are so many other great things out there to choose from (jellybeans) I guess the bear is Bronx
Most of the rest is pretty obvious like the ferris wheel thing
"When you wake up the world will come around"
I think it means if the world isn't going the way you want it to, all you have to do is wake up and try again and it will "come around", don't give up.
I have never heard life lessons put so well for a child, Bronx is the luckiest kid.