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 think it's funny
You got every single of the guys
Bendin' backwards,
Thinking somehow they'll collect on the prize
But I know that you know
That isn't happening
And I know that you know
It's just a part of the game
Just so you know
I can see right through your facade
I learned the hard way
But trust me, girl, I learned enough
Until that day when you outta luck and all alone
I promise I'll be there to stay I told you so
And I know
You're a closet romantic
But you love all the attention
So please
Just give it up
You're not fooling anyone
(I sing a melody for memories, remind me of you
You said you liked me, but I knew what you were trying to do
But I still fell for every little thing you said
Sometimes I wished that you'd just shut me down instead)
Shut me down, don't let me down
(And I know
You're a closet romantic
But you love all the attention
So please
Just give it up
You're not fooling anyone)
You're the pyramid scheme of infatuation
Get love quick, just follow these easy steps
I've got a real simple formula for fallin' in love
But in time, I'll be another thing disposed of
And your style, with the guys becomes strategic
Enough to make someone who found out real sick
Like that time I overheard you with your girlfriends
"Oh my God, you won't believe what I just told him"
Shut me down, just shut it down, just shut me down
(And I know
You're a closet romantic
But you love all the attention
So please
Just give it up
You're not fooling anyone)
I sing a melody for memories, remind me of you
You said you liked me, but I knew what you were trying to do
But I still fell for every little thing you said
Sometimes I wished that you'd just shut me down instead
(Shut me, shut me, shut me...)
The only thing that I don't get
Is how you can do all of this
And just forget
Every broken heart
And loss of self esteem
The misplaced dreams
And the abandoning that you made
Then you take it all away
And I know
You're a closet romantic
But you love all the attention
So please
Just give it up
You're not fooling anyone
You got every single of the guys
Bendin' backwards,
Thinking somehow they'll collect on the prize
But I know that you know
That isn't happening
And I know that you know
It's just a part of the game
Just so you know
I can see right through your facade
I learned the hard way
But trust me, girl, I learned enough
Until that day when you outta luck and all alone
I promise I'll be there to stay I told you so
And I know
You're a closet romantic
But you love all the attention
So please
Just give it up
You're not fooling anyone
(I sing a melody for memories, remind me of you
You said you liked me, but I knew what you were trying to do
But I still fell for every little thing you said
Sometimes I wished that you'd just shut me down instead)
Shut me down, don't let me down
(And I know
You're a closet romantic
But you love all the attention
So please
Just give it up
You're not fooling anyone)
You're the pyramid scheme of infatuation
Get love quick, just follow these easy steps
I've got a real simple formula for fallin' in love
But in time, I'll be another thing disposed of
And your style, with the guys becomes strategic
Enough to make someone who found out real sick
Like that time I overheard you with your girlfriends
"Oh my God, you won't believe what I just told him"
Shut me down, just shut it down, just shut me down
(And I know
You're a closet romantic
But you love all the attention
So please
Just give it up
You're not fooling anyone)
I sing a melody for memories, remind me of you
You said you liked me, but I knew what you were trying to do
But I still fell for every little thing you said
Sometimes I wished that you'd just shut me down instead
(Shut me, shut me, shut me...)
The only thing that I don't get
Is how you can do all of this
And just forget
Every broken heart
And loss of self esteem
The misplaced dreams
And the abandoning that you made
Then you take it all away
And I know
You're a closet romantic
But you love all the attention
So please
Just give it up
You're not fooling anyone
Lyrics submitted by BleedorBreathe
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