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"
Hey you, you're the singer
Why don't you come out tonight
Out tonight, out tonight, yeah
I'm a believer, I'm a dreamer
I'm stumbling around
And I heard that certain something
And I have to find the sound
I was lost, but baby now I'm found
And you
You're not the first one.
And you really should know
She only wants you when you're taken
(She only wants you)
She only loves you when it's raining
(She only wants you)
She only comes around to sing away the pain
She's only happy when it's grey
The thought of your body
She never gets used to it
Used to it, used to it, yeah
Feels like a shadow
Of what she used to be, used to be
Thinking she had that certain something
But she learned it's just a trait
And it's worse the older that you get
So you don't come around, yeah
You're wasting your time
She only wants you when you're taken
(She only wants you)
She only loves you when it's raining
(She only wants you)
She only comes around to sing away the pain
She's only happy when it's grey
Slowly but surely, she will bring you down
So don't you come around
She only wants you 'cause you're taken
(She only wants you)
She only loves you when it's raining, yeah
She only wants you when you're taken
(She only wants you)
She only loves you when it's raining
(She only wants you)
She only comes around to sing away the pain
She's only happy when it's grey
Why don't you come out tonight
Out tonight, out tonight, yeah
I'm a believer, I'm a dreamer
I'm stumbling around
And I heard that certain something
And I have to find the sound
I was lost, but baby now I'm found
And you
You're not the first one.
And you really should know
She only wants you when you're taken
(She only wants you)
She only loves you when it's raining
(She only wants you)
She only comes around to sing away the pain
She's only happy when it's grey
The thought of your body
She never gets used to it
Used to it, used to it, yeah
Feels like a shadow
Of what she used to be, used to be
Thinking she had that certain something
But she learned it's just a trait
And it's worse the older that you get
So you don't come around, yeah
You're wasting your time
She only wants you when you're taken
(She only wants you)
She only loves you when it's raining
(She only wants you)
She only comes around to sing away the pain
She's only happy when it's grey
Slowly but surely, she will bring you down
So don't you come around
She only wants you 'cause you're taken
(She only wants you)
She only loves you when it's raining, yeah
She only wants you when you're taken
(She only wants you)
She only loves you when it's raining
(She only wants you)
She only comes around to sing away the pain
She's only happy when it's grey
Lyrics submitted by fancypirouettes
Grey Lyrics as written by Jay Dmuchowski Amie Michel Miriello
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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