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"
You were not what I needed
Was not drunk, just defeated
So I stayed
And of course, I don't want you
I just want to hear what you would say
And on my way home
I screamed, "I get it!"
And the sky screamed right back
"So why'd you let it
do you this way?"
Don't write me lines
from your still box
All propped on wheels
Worn by exhaust
Clothes line, clothes line
For hearts who share
with the holes to my heart
Like the linen I wear
And all the popular girls they stare
At the hundred and odd
guns I bear
So what about me?
Me on top of you
All soft in your ear
Time tested radio tunes
So what about me?
Me on top of you
All soft in your ears
Time tested radio tunes
Hey, hey man with the ramblin' machine
Steady in the place of your memory
On and on and on to space
Where they don't duck and roll at the crash of your name
I will grant you a cameo, Baby
With the sound of a stage and the sway of a lady
of a lady
So what about me?
Me on top of you
All soft in your ears
Time tested radio tunes
You are not what I needed
Was not drunk, just defeated
So I stayed
And of course I don't want you
I just want to hear what you would say
And on my way home
I screamed, "I get it!"
And the sky screamed back
"So why'd you let it
do you this way?"
So what about me?
Me on top of you
All soft in your ears
Time tested radio tunes
Time tested radio tunes
Time tested radio tunes
Was not drunk, just defeated
So I stayed
And of course, I don't want you
I just want to hear what you would say
And on my way home
I screamed, "I get it!"
And the sky screamed right back
"So why'd you let it
do you this way?"
Don't write me lines
from your still box
All propped on wheels
Worn by exhaust
Clothes line, clothes line
For hearts who share
with the holes to my heart
Like the linen I wear
And all the popular girls they stare
At the hundred and odd
guns I bear
So what about me?
Me on top of you
All soft in your ear
Time tested radio tunes
So what about me?
Me on top of you
All soft in your ears
Time tested radio tunes
Hey, hey man with the ramblin' machine
Steady in the place of your memory
On and on and on to space
Where they don't duck and roll at the crash of your name
I will grant you a cameo, Baby
With the sound of a stage and the sway of a lady
of a lady
So what about me?
Me on top of you
All soft in your ears
Time tested radio tunes
You are not what I needed
Was not drunk, just defeated
So I stayed
And of course I don't want you
I just want to hear what you would say
And on my way home
I screamed, "I get it!"
And the sky screamed back
"So why'd you let it
do you this way?"
So what about me?
Me on top of you
All soft in your ears
Time tested radio tunes
Time tested radio tunes
Time tested radio tunes
Lyrics submitted by RaineBM1185
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i think these lyrics are perfectly non specific those lines have meant different things to me depending on what is happening in my life or my head