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, mind reader.
You know what I feel
Before I speak
It always seems you gotta one up me
Have a worse for me is that what you need
I've got it all and you've got nothing
Hey, Mind reader
Bet you didn't see this one coming
'Cause your eyes are never open
I've said sorry, you just mock me
And I'm ready to throw this up and away
I'm not able
able to say
Don't let me get away
I haven't been honest either
We could use each other
Don't let me get away
It's not getting any better
We could use each other
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
Hey, mind reader
Just as soon as I leave the room
My stomach drops, my guts I lose
I'm not the type to follow through
But you already knew that, didn't you?
Hey, mind reader
Quick steps, reality check
I might be gone before you're back
You bite your nails at the thought of that
Just tell me off, and let me hear you say
Are you able
able to stay
Don't let me get away
I haven't been honest either
We could use each other
Don't let me get away
It's not getting any better
We could use each other
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
Start speaking your mind reading
You can't keep me out, believe it
Start speaking say what we mean
No lies tucked in between our teeth
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
Don't let me get away
(Don't let me get away)
Don't let me get away
Don't let me get away
I haven't been honest either
We could use each other
Don't let me get away
It's not getting any better
We could use each other
(Don't let me get away)
Don't let me get away
We could use each other
(Don't let me get away)
Don't let me get away
Hey, mind reader
You know what I feel
Before I speak
It always seems you gotta one up me
Have a worse for me is that what you need
I've got it all and you've got nothing
Hey, Mind reader
Bet you didn't see this one coming
'Cause your eyes are never open
I've said sorry, you just mock me
And I'm ready to throw this up and away
I'm not able
able to say
Don't let me get away
I haven't been honest either
We could use each other
Don't let me get away
It's not getting any better
We could use each other
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
Hey, mind reader
Just as soon as I leave the room
My stomach drops, my guts I lose
I'm not the type to follow through
But you already knew that, didn't you?
Hey, mind reader
Quick steps, reality check
I might be gone before you're back
You bite your nails at the thought of that
Just tell me off, and let me hear you say
Are you able
able to stay
Don't let me get away
I haven't been honest either
We could use each other
Don't let me get away
It's not getting any better
We could use each other
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
Start speaking your mind reading
You can't keep me out, believe it
Start speaking say what we mean
No lies tucked in between our teeth
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
Don't let me get away
(Don't let me get away)
Don't let me get away
Don't let me get away
I haven't been honest either
We could use each other
Don't let me get away
It's not getting any better
We could use each other
(Don't let me get away)
Don't let me get away
We could use each other
(Don't let me get away)
Don't let me get away
Hey, mind reader
Lyrics submitted by brainvirus
Mind Reader Lyrics as written by Blake Harnage Dave Bassett
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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