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"
Wide awake, my mistake, so predictable
You were fake, I was great, nothing personal
I'm walking, who's laughing now?
(Who's laughing, who's laughing now?)
I'm wasted, wasting time
You talk for hours but you're wasting lines
A pretty face but the chase ain't worth the prize
I'm gonna break your little heart
Watch you take the fall
Laughing all the way to the hospital
'Cause there's nothing surgery can do
When I break your little heart in two
I'm gonna break your little heart in two
A party queen, cause a scene, so ridiculous
Little dress, maybe less, so conspicuous
You're falling, who's crashing now?
(Who's crashing, who's crashing now?)
I'm wasted, wasting time
I'm moving on but you're left behind
A pretty face but the chase ain't worth the prize
I'm gonna break your little heart
Watch you take the fall
Laughing all the way to the hospital
'Cause there's nothing surgery can do
I'm gonna break your little heart
Show you to the door
Sew yourself shut and now you're begging for more
'Cause there's nothing surgery can do
When I break your little heart in two
Don't be so sentimental, no
This is love is accidental, so
Give it up, this was never meant to be
More than a memory for you
I'm gonna break your little heart
Watch you take the fall
Laughing all the way to the hospital
'Cause there's nothing surgery can do
(When I break your little heart in two)
I'm gonna break your little heart
Show you to the door
Sew yourself shut, now you're begging for more
'Cause there's nothing surgery can do
When I break your little heart in two
You were fake, I was great, nothing personal
I'm walking, who's laughing now?
(Who's laughing, who's laughing now?)
I'm wasted, wasting time
You talk for hours but you're wasting lines
A pretty face but the chase ain't worth the prize
I'm gonna break your little heart
Watch you take the fall
Laughing all the way to the hospital
'Cause there's nothing surgery can do
When I break your little heart in two
I'm gonna break your little heart in two
A party queen, cause a scene, so ridiculous
Little dress, maybe less, so conspicuous
You're falling, who's crashing now?
(Who's crashing, who's crashing now?)
I'm wasted, wasting time
I'm moving on but you're left behind
A pretty face but the chase ain't worth the prize
I'm gonna break your little heart
Watch you take the fall
Laughing all the way to the hospital
'Cause there's nothing surgery can do
I'm gonna break your little heart
Show you to the door
Sew yourself shut and now you're begging for more
'Cause there's nothing surgery can do
When I break your little heart in two
Don't be so sentimental, no
This is love is accidental, so
Give it up, this was never meant to be
More than a memory for you
I'm gonna break your little heart
Watch you take the fall
Laughing all the way to the hospital
'Cause there's nothing surgery can do
(When I break your little heart in two)
I'm gonna break your little heart
Show you to the door
Sew yourself shut, now you're begging for more
'Cause there's nothing surgery can do
When I break your little heart in two
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
Break Your Little Heart Lyrics as written by Robert Ryan Dawson Jack Bassam Barakat
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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"Wide awake, my mistake So predictable You were fake, I was great Nothing personal"
I think this is about a guy who wakes up after a one night stand. Looks over at the girl and sees she's the same as all the other, nothing special. She faked everything about the night before, nothing about her is real.
fell in love with this song the first time i listened to it. it was the one i couldn't wait to listen to before i bought nothing personal and i still love it. :D it's definitely about revenge; he's in a relationship that's gone wrong and having problems ("wide awake, my mistake so predictable") and that's he still thinks she's pretty and stuff but she's not worth all the trouble she's caused him ("pretty face but the chase ain't worth the prize") so as revenge he's gonna break her heart.
love it. :] i now plan to do this with a guy who broke my heart and was a total idiot with me a while ago. thanks atl! :D
go for it doll !<br /> sometimes guys need to be taught a lesson, so one day<br /> they'll learn to take care of there relationships(:<br /> <3
i think its 'with the chase ain't worth the price'
you wanna look at the lyrics for Stella for me? i don't get this one part
via twitter-<br /> vinny_vegas: "pretty face, but the chase ain't worth the prize!"<br /> <br /> i think he might be right...<br /> ...cause he actually knows the band.<br /> and probably has access to better info.<br /> <br /> and it sounds more like it.<br /> sorry for the wrong interp.<br /> =/<br />
it's<br /> "'cause the chase aint worth the prize"<br /> pretty positive<br /> it's only my favorite song by them so... yeah
IT is "Pretty face, BUT THE chase aint worth the prize" I have the book infront of me. <br />
The whole "wide awake" part is my favorite, I love it. I love them.
i nearly got a t-shirt iwth that on ;D<br /> but they sold out<br /> mine says 'there's nothing surgery can do when i beak your little heat in 2'
i believe it is supose to be:
"I'm wasted, wasting time"
somebody who is good at REMIXING...
or whatever should take this song and edit this part in youtube.com/watch
right after 'more than a memory for you'
and they would be my hero then =]
fuck yes.
i loooove this! the lyrics are great.
anyone know the meaning?
It sounds like the girl used him ('You were fake..") and now he's making her fall in love with him just so he can break her heart and get back at her.
the meanings pretty easy to get Icarus is right. Definitely my fav song off the album and will probably be a hit off of it.