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"
Ain't no use in calling up your friends
Ain't no use in hiding in your bed
And ain't no use in standing on your head
Cause no new sights can fill your loneliness
Seven days of time to fix your head
Seven days of time you walk the ledge
And every time you catch the sight of your reflection
And you can't decide if you should cry or if it's time to laugh
Can't count how many times I've heard you say
You'd give up all you got for just a day
Of feeling fine, no counting lines
That settled up under your eyes
To fall in love, to fall in love, to fall in love
And sympathy no doubt you weren't your friend
And it's too late now but I wrote this down back then
And there ain't no use in cutting through the darkness that envelops you
You have to let the light come in instead
Ain't no use in hiding in your bed
And ain't no use in standing on your head
Cause no new sights can fill your loneliness
Seven days of time to fix your head
Seven days of time you walk the ledge
And every time you catch the sight of your reflection
And you can't decide if you should cry or if it's time to laugh
Can't count how many times I've heard you say
You'd give up all you got for just a day
Of feeling fine, no counting lines
That settled up under your eyes
To fall in love, to fall in love, to fall in love
And sympathy no doubt you weren't your friend
And it's too late now but I wrote this down back then
And there ain't no use in cutting through the darkness that envelops you
You have to let the light come in instead
Lyrics submitted by splendidisolation
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My friend sent the lyrics from the CD case:
Ain't no use in calling up your friends Ain't no use in hiding in your bed And ain't no use in standing on your head Cause no new sights can fill your loneliness
Seven days of time to fix your head Seven days of time you walk the ledge And every time you catch the sight of your reflection And you can't decide if you should cry or if it's time to laugh
Can't count how many times I've heard you say You'd give up all you got for just a day Of feeling fine, no counting lines That settled up under your eyes To fall in love, to fall in love, to fall in love
And sympathy no doubt you weren't your friend And it's too late now but I wrote this down back then And there ain't no use in cutting through the darkness that envelops you You have to let the light come in instead
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I agree, beautiful song...JBM is such a amazing artist, his songs has soul, his lyrics are so powerful and I'm in love with his music..
"And there ain't no use in cutting through the darkness that envelops you You have to let the light come in instead"
Such a powerful lyrics...
This is a letter written from a good friend/son to his mother who has just gotten out of rehab.
He first recounts on the ways she first tried to fill her emptiness (with friends, with lethargy, with yoga), but to no avail.
He then describes her experience in the hospital, a time to fix her head. She never imagined herself ending up in a rehab center, so every time she sees her reflection she can't decide to cry or laugh.
He'd heard her say many times that she just wants a normal day without snorting lines of this stuff and getting the bags under her eyes. She still dreams of falling in love.
Very few people on the outside offered her sympathy. And he apologizes for having these thoughts back then, but never extending to her any comfort. He recommends concentrating on receiving the light rather than concentrating on fending off darkness.
You'd give up all you got for just a day of feeling fine, no counting lines that settled up under your eyes. To fall in love.
This specific lyric just breaks my heart, I cannot remember the last time in my life I didn't need a substance to get through the day... I'd give anything to feel fine, I'd give anything to be someone else.