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"
I can hear the truck tires coming up the gravel road
And its not like her to drive that slow, nothings on the radio
Footsteps on the front porch, I hear my doorbell
She usually comes right in, now I can tell
Here comes goodbye, here comes the last time
Here comes the start of every sleepless night
The first of every tear I'm gonna cry
Here comes the pain, here comes me wishing things had never changed
And she was right here in my arms tonight, but here comes goodbye
I can hear her say I love you like it was yesterday
And I can see it written on her face that she had never felt this way
One day I thought id see her with her daddy by her side
And violins would play here comes the bride
Here comes goodbye, here comes the last time
Here comes the start of every sleepless night
The first of every tear I'm gonna cry
Here comes the pain, here comes me wishing things had never changed
And she was right here in my arms tonight, but here comes goodbye
Why does it have to go from good to gone?
Before the lights turn on, yeah and you're left alone
All alone, but here comes goodbye
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Here comes goodbye, here comes the last time
Here comes the start of every sleepless night
The first of every tear I'm gonna cry
Here comes the pain, here comes me wishing things had never changed
And she was right here in my arms tonight, but here comes goodbye
And its not like her to drive that slow, nothings on the radio
Footsteps on the front porch, I hear my doorbell
She usually comes right in, now I can tell
Here comes goodbye, here comes the last time
Here comes the start of every sleepless night
The first of every tear I'm gonna cry
Here comes the pain, here comes me wishing things had never changed
And she was right here in my arms tonight, but here comes goodbye
I can hear her say I love you like it was yesterday
And I can see it written on her face that she had never felt this way
One day I thought id see her with her daddy by her side
And violins would play here comes the bride
Here comes goodbye, here comes the last time
Here comes the start of every sleepless night
The first of every tear I'm gonna cry
Here comes the pain, here comes me wishing things had never changed
And she was right here in my arms tonight, but here comes goodbye
Why does it have to go from good to gone?
Before the lights turn on, yeah and you're left alone
All alone, but here comes goodbye
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Here comes goodbye, here comes the last time
Here comes the start of every sleepless night
The first of every tear I'm gonna cry
Here comes the pain, here comes me wishing things had never changed
And she was right here in my arms tonight, but here comes goodbye
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Okay people the music video for this song and the actual song are two completely different things.
When I first heard this song it seemed to me to be a standard break up song. The narrator is telling the story about how he knew she was ending the relationship by the few clues in the beginning and then the chorus is pretty much stating what the aftermath of her leaving him will feel like. The second verse is about him remembering what they had together and what he thought would happen in the future.
Here is some evidence to prove my point: "And she was in my arms tonight" okay some people have stated that this song is about a mother loosing her son or a father loosing his daughter or something but it doesn't make much sense does it. If a mother lost her son wouldn't the words say, And HE was in my arms tonight? Also if it was about a father loosing his daughter and as some people stated the daughter is either college age or has a son of her own, those lyrics wouldn't really work well for a father daughter relationship.
"I can hear say I love you like it was yesterday..." let me take a moment before I continue, yes this could be considered in some cases as a daughter telling her father or mother that she loves them before leaving or dying but as the song continues it says, "and I could see it written on her face, that she had never felt this way." Now don't get me wrong but it doesn't make much sense this being said about a child by their parent.
My last point is, "One day I thought I'd see her, with her daddy by her side blah blah blah, here comes the bride" right? Well somebody earlier had said that they thought it meant that the father was in heaven looking down at his daughter but there is one problem with that theory. The entire song is written in first person perspective, the narrator so why would her father start of by speaking in first person and then go directly to ominous? Quite a big leap.
The music video puts a different spin on things though it makes little sense expect maybe for the the beginning when the narrator talks about her coming to see him and how she is acting strangely and what it means. It could mean that the female in the video is coming to the house she grew up in (her fathers) and finally letting go of the memories of her father and (son?) that haunt her...but like I said the rest of the lyrics don't add up to the video.
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@MeganLovesMusicForever I saw the video for the first time a couple of years ago. I've re-watched it many times and I really cannot make the lyrics and the video make sense together..Not sure why it just frustrates me. Pretty sure I am not stupid :-)