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'm about to have a nervous breakdown
My head really hurts
And if I don't find a way out of here
I'm gonna go berserk 'cause
I'm crazy and I'm hurt
Head on my shoulders
It's going berserk
I hear the same old talk talk talk
The same old lines
Don't grill me that today
Yeah If you know what's good for you
You'll get out of my way 'cause
I'm crazy and I'm hurt
Head on my shoulders
Is going berserk
I won't apologize
For acting outta line
You see the way I am
You leave any time you can 'cause
I'm crazy and I'm hurt
Head on my shoulders is going berserk
Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy
I don't care what you fuckin' do
I don't care what you fuckin' say
I'm so sick of everything I just want to die
My head really hurts
And if I don't find a way out of here
I'm gonna go berserk 'cause
I'm crazy and I'm hurt
Head on my shoulders
It's going berserk
I hear the same old talk talk talk
The same old lines
Don't grill me that today
Yeah If you know what's good for you
You'll get out of my way 'cause
I'm crazy and I'm hurt
Head on my shoulders
Is going berserk
I won't apologize
For acting outta line
You see the way I am
You leave any time you can 'cause
I'm crazy and I'm hurt
Head on my shoulders is going berserk
Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy
I don't care what you fuckin' do
I don't care what you fuckin' say
I'm so sick of everything I just want to die
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Wooo! First Comment...? It's a little harder than RA normally does, but it's Ok. I think it's about someone who's trapped in a lifestyle that is monotonous and they are about to go insane because there's no spontaniety. He seems just a breath shy of being crazy and he's already showing it.
wow. only second to comment. this is a great song though... anyway, i think this song is pretty simple. everyone feels crazy sometimes, i guess. and he's just gotten to that point where is doesn't care about anything or anyone at that current moment.
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