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 shove your way
Through the room from the street
And finally to me
You ask me what I'm drinking
My friend Johnny
Tugging on my sleeve
Asks if I wanna leave
But what I'm really thinking is
Why can't it be easy
Easy
Why don't you leave
Leave me
Leave me be
I can see you swaying
I can't hear what you're saying
I'm sitting here stuck
And plastered to my seat
I think up a reason to leave
When you finally stop speaking
I'll take a long slow
Walk down Washington Street
Half asleep on my feet
Half aware if I'm dreaming
I'll go home alone
A sinking stone
A switched off telephone
I'll go on and be free
A frozen breeze
A fallen down factory
But I still see you swaying
And I can't hear what you're saying
I just lost the plot
Got a little caught
In a little knot
I just hit a wall
Had a little fall
Felt the swinging wrecking ball
And why should that be
Why don't you tell me
Why don't you tell me
I'm sure you'll tell me
Why don't you tell me
I guess you'll tell me
Tell me
Through the room from the street
And finally to me
You ask me what I'm drinking
My friend Johnny
Tugging on my sleeve
Asks if I wanna leave
But what I'm really thinking is
Why can't it be easy
Easy
Why don't you leave
Leave me
Leave me be
I can see you swaying
I can't hear what you're saying
I'm sitting here stuck
And plastered to my seat
I think up a reason to leave
When you finally stop speaking
I'll take a long slow
Walk down Washington Street
Half asleep on my feet
Half aware if I'm dreaming
I'll go home alone
A sinking stone
A switched off telephone
I'll go on and be free
A frozen breeze
A fallen down factory
But I still see you swaying
And I can't hear what you're saying
I just lost the plot
Got a little caught
In a little knot
I just hit a wall
Had a little fall
Felt the swinging wrecking ball
And why should that be
Why don't you tell me
Why don't you tell me
I'm sure you'll tell me
Why don't you tell me
I guess you'll tell me
Tell me
Lyrics submitted by shakelly_blackmouth
Stuck Lyrics as written by Will Sheff Norah Jones
Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid, Songtrust Ave, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Hipgnosis Songs Group
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This song is beautiful.....but the lyrics here are all wrong here. Its....
You shove your way through the room from the street and finally to me and ask me what I'm drinking. My friend Johnny tuggin on my sleeve, asks if I want to leave but what Im really thinking is
Why cant it be easy easy Why dont you leave, leave me, leave me be
I can see you swaying but I cant hear what you're saying
Im sitting here stuck and plastered to my seat, I think up a reason to leave when you finally stop speaking. Take a long slow walk down washington street, half asleep on my feet, but half awake if Im dreaming I go home alone, a sinking stone, a switched off telephone Ill go on and be free, a frozen breeze, a fallen down factory
But I can see you swaying, but I cant hear what youre saying
I just lost the plot, got a little caught, then a little knot I just hit a wall, had a little fall, felt a swinging recking ball and why should that be...why dont you tell me, i guess you'll tell me
wrecking ...not recking.
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