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"
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head, I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world, mad world
Children waiting for the day, they feel good
Happy birthday, happy birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher, tell me what's my lesson?
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world, mad world
Enlarge your world
Mad world
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head, I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world, mad world
Children waiting for the day, they feel good
Happy birthday, happy birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher, tell me what's my lesson?
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world, mad world
Enlarge your world
Mad world
Lyrics submitted by kmk_natasha
Mad World Lyrics as written by Roland Orzabal
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sentric Music
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this song is pretty much talking about how the kids and teenagers of our time feel so small and unimportant in the vast world we live in. People start to feel like nobody even cares about them anymore, and they dont have a point in the world.
"the dreams in which im dying are the best ive ever had"
^^ some people would rather just die than live with no point.
The sad thing is, our society really is coming to this point. So many people feel shut out from the world, and everyone else is too caught up in their own lives to notice.
yes, like me.<br /> <br /> "The dreams in which im dying are the best are I've ever had"<br /> <br /> Sometimes, people just want to die.<br /> But they don't want to suicide.<br /> Religion beliefs/fear..?<br /> <br /> Yes, exactly..<br /> "How can I feel surrounded, even when the world surrounds me?" - Dream Theater - Misunderstood<br /> <br /> Back to this song; some people; e.g;me;<br /> just don't give a shit of anything anymore.<br /> we're too sad.<br /> too much has happened to us.<br /> most of us have "so much anger aimed in no particular direction" - Eminem - White America.<br /> hm, i could explain so much more of these few words, of this little thing not many could understand.<br /> its like we have nothing else to live for, we can just be taken away.<br /> no goal set at all..<br /> <br /> ok; next important set of words:<br /> "When people run in circles its a very very Mad World"<br /> It just explains how people say so much shit, and when they're with other people they could say the complete opposite, and they keep confusing us, keep telling us lies, basically brain-washing us, and making us/them run in circles.<br /> And it makes everyone mad (crazy).<br /> Its a very very mad world.<br /> Everyone's nuts deep inside.<br /> <br /> "Hide my head I want to drown my sorrows"<br /> He wants to die.<br /> <br /> And thats kindof it. :)
this song is about the world we live in today, "children waiting for the day they feel good, happy birthday" means the happiness emotion is being manufactured, for cirten days that we wait for... for most people its a smaller picture of how society works, most people work 5 or six days of a 7 day week, which is (waiting for the day they fell good) when people "run in circles its a very very mad world" we are doing the same thing over and over again, waiting...
This is a great cover of the Tears for Fears song "Mad World."
"It's very much a voyeur's song. It's looking out at a mad world from the eyes of a teenager." —Curt Smith