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 had to kick this nightclub scene
I drove out into the desert heat
To find my brother where he strays complete
I brought the rain with me
And if I really want to stay alive
There's a part of me that's gotta die
And my brother he's the kindest kind
Don't need to see the light
If I wanted to stay you know that I would
I don't like to be misunderstood
Yeah every time I leave here I leave for good
I know oh I know you're not keeping track
But I keep on coming back
I keep coming back the way you said I would
Yeah very time I leave here I leave for good
Somewhere
There's a girl I don't know her name
I get so lonely I can picture her face
I guess right now we got our separate ways
But I'm gonna marry her one day
And every age that you get in life
There's a sweet and there's an ugly side
I try to be patient for what comes in time
And thankful for what's mine
If I wanted to stay you know that I would
I don't like to be misunderstood
Yeah every time I leave here I leave for good
I know oh I know you're not keeping track
But I keep on coming back
I keep coming back the way you said I would
Yeah very time I leave here I leave for good
I keep on running
And I keep crawling home
But the trouble stays with me
Everywhere I go
(All right!)
If I wanted to stay you know that I would
I don't like to be misunderstood
Yeah every time I leave here I leave for good
I know oh I know you're not keeping track
But I keep on coming back
I keep coming back the way you said I would
Yeah every time I leave here I leave for good
I drove out into the desert heat
To find my brother where he strays complete
I brought the rain with me
And if I really want to stay alive
There's a part of me that's gotta die
And my brother he's the kindest kind
Don't need to see the light
If I wanted to stay you know that I would
I don't like to be misunderstood
Yeah every time I leave here I leave for good
I know oh I know you're not keeping track
But I keep on coming back
I keep coming back the way you said I would
Yeah very time I leave here I leave for good
Somewhere
There's a girl I don't know her name
I get so lonely I can picture her face
I guess right now we got our separate ways
But I'm gonna marry her one day
And every age that you get in life
There's a sweet and there's an ugly side
I try to be patient for what comes in time
And thankful for what's mine
If I wanted to stay you know that I would
I don't like to be misunderstood
Yeah every time I leave here I leave for good
I know oh I know you're not keeping track
But I keep on coming back
I keep coming back the way you said I would
Yeah very time I leave here I leave for good
I keep on running
And I keep crawling home
But the trouble stays with me
Everywhere I go
(All right!)
If I wanted to stay you know that I would
I don't like to be misunderstood
Yeah every time I leave here I leave for good
I know oh I know you're not keeping track
But I keep on coming back
I keep coming back the way you said I would
Yeah every time I leave here I leave for good
Lyrics submitted by SerraHardy
Every Time I Leave (I Leave for Good) Lyrics as written by Kenneth Karlin Carsten Schack
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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dave is really close to his brother :)
i think that there are feelings of confusion and frustration. he's trying to make things right but he can't.
Not completely sure what this song is about. He says that he leaves for good, but he also says that he always comes back...
Yeah he's really close, definitely can tell that from They're Not Like Us from his street to nowhere days :P<br /> <br /> <br /> But the leaving for good and always coming back part, I kinda took it as even though he's leaving and coming back constantly, there's a part of him that leaves for good. Perhaps something in him that doesn't come back with him where whenever he returns, things aren't always quite the same. I guess you could also tie in the lines "If I really wanna stay alive, there's a part of me that's gotta die", where these different lines from the verse and chorus are sorts of metaphors for both you gotta give something to get something, but after so much moving around, things lose their familiarity.<br /> <br /> This may seem dumb but I mean think of the game "telephone" where you tell a person one thing, and see if it can be passed through a bunch of people. Eventually the sentence, or life/experiences/home/whatever you wanna think of it as, loses it's familiarity.