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"
In my eyes
Course and jaded
It's no surprise
The lights have faded
I always walk away
You'll always hear me say
I don't need this
I've been given such a gift
Shame to take advantage of it
Watch it, wasting leaves you wanting more
Be careful what you're wishing for
Nothing that I can hold on to
With my broken hands
Not thinking that I should anyway
So I leave holding nothing
Don't care what you say
Cause it makes no difference if I throw it away
Yeah, it makes no difference if I throw it away
Now my days are feeling numbered
This sad cliche I'm hiding under
This spider web of dreams
I'm stuck here as it seems to be breaking
Shining brighter than you burn
Something that I would never learn
I could never lay this curse on you
Cursing the days where there's
Nothing that I can hold on to
With my broken hands
Not thinking that I should anyway
So I leave holding nothing
Don't care what you say
Cause it makes no difference if I throw it away
Cause it makes no difference
Yeah, it makes no difference if I throw it away
It makes no difference
It makes no difference if I throw it away
Makes no difference if I throw it away
Throw it away
Throw it away
It all just ends up tasting watered down
(Instead of being so complicated)
And everyone has found an easy way out, an easy way out
It all just ends up tasting watered down
(Instead of being so complicated)
And everyone has found an easy way out, an easy way out
Nothing that I can hold on to
With my broken hands
Not thinking that I should anyway
So I leave holding nothing
Don't care what you say
Cause it makes no difference if I throw it away
Cause it makes no difference
Yeah, it makes no difference if I throw it away
It makes no difference
It makes no difference if I throw it away
Yeah, it makes no difference if I throw it away
Throw it away
Throw it away
Get outta town by Sunday
I say if they don't get outta town
We kill the men
We kill the women
We kill the children
We kill the babies
We kill the blind
We kill the crippled
We kill the crazy
Course and jaded
It's no surprise
The lights have faded
I always walk away
You'll always hear me say
I don't need this
I've been given such a gift
Shame to take advantage of it
Watch it, wasting leaves you wanting more
Be careful what you're wishing for
Nothing that I can hold on to
With my broken hands
Not thinking that I should anyway
So I leave holding nothing
Don't care what you say
Cause it makes no difference if I throw it away
Yeah, it makes no difference if I throw it away
Now my days are feeling numbered
This sad cliche I'm hiding under
This spider web of dreams
I'm stuck here as it seems to be breaking
Shining brighter than you burn
Something that I would never learn
I could never lay this curse on you
Cursing the days where there's
Nothing that I can hold on to
With my broken hands
Not thinking that I should anyway
So I leave holding nothing
Don't care what you say
Cause it makes no difference if I throw it away
Cause it makes no difference
Yeah, it makes no difference if I throw it away
It makes no difference
It makes no difference if I throw it away
Makes no difference if I throw it away
Throw it away
Throw it away
It all just ends up tasting watered down
(Instead of being so complicated)
And everyone has found an easy way out, an easy way out
It all just ends up tasting watered down
(Instead of being so complicated)
And everyone has found an easy way out, an easy way out
Nothing that I can hold on to
With my broken hands
Not thinking that I should anyway
So I leave holding nothing
Don't care what you say
Cause it makes no difference if I throw it away
Cause it makes no difference
Yeah, it makes no difference if I throw it away
It makes no difference
It makes no difference if I throw it away
Yeah, it makes no difference if I throw it away
Throw it away
Throw it away
Get outta town by Sunday
I say if they don't get outta town
We kill the men
We kill the women
We kill the children
We kill the babies
We kill the blind
We kill the crippled
We kill the crazy
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Watered Down Lyrics as written by Jeph Howard Quinn Allman
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"It all just ends up tasting watered down (It's never been so complicated) And everyone has found an easy way out An easy way out It all just ends up tasting watered down (It's never been so complicated And everyone has found an easy way out An easy way out
Nothing that I can't Hold onto my broken hands I'm not thinking that I should anyway So I Leave holding nothing Don't care what you say
Cause it makes no difference if I throw it away Cause it makes no difference Yeah it makes no difference if I throw it away It makes no difference It makes no difference if I throw it away Yeah it makes no difference if I throw it away"