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 can not hold this anymore
My hands are tired of only waiting to let go
And I am waiting, still
I used to know which way to turn
You were a light inside a tunnel in my head
I try to follow, still
I try to follow, still
It's hard to see you, we are older now
And when I find you, you just turn around
This is a black and white of you I've found
I hang you up and then I pull you down
I hang you up and then I pull you down
No more apologies from me
My arms are tired of picking up what I put down
You're all I think of, still
I'm gonna miss you everyday
I turn my back on anyone who won't believe
And it gets lonely, still
It gets lonely, still
It's hard to see you, we are older now
And when I find you, you just turn around
This is a black and white of you I've found
I hang you up and then I pull you down
I hang you up and then I pull you down
I get lost sometimes
Another year flies by
But I know if I try
Memories of the light in your eyes
Can take me back in time
It's hard to see you, we are older now
And when I find you, you just turn around
This is a black and white of you I found
I hang you up and then I pull you down
It's hard to see you we are older now (we are older now)
And when I find you, you just turn around (you turn around)
This is a black and white of you I found (you I found)
I hang you up and then I pull you down
(Pull you down)
I hang you up and then I pull you down
(Pull you down)
I hang you up and then I pull you down
(Pull you down)
I don't hear music anymore
My ears are tired of all the pictures in the words
'Cause you are in them, still
My hands are tired of only waiting to let go
And I am waiting, still
I used to know which way to turn
You were a light inside a tunnel in my head
I try to follow, still
I try to follow, still
It's hard to see you, we are older now
And when I find you, you just turn around
This is a black and white of you I've found
I hang you up and then I pull you down
I hang you up and then I pull you down
No more apologies from me
My arms are tired of picking up what I put down
You're all I think of, still
I'm gonna miss you everyday
I turn my back on anyone who won't believe
And it gets lonely, still
It gets lonely, still
It's hard to see you, we are older now
And when I find you, you just turn around
This is a black and white of you I've found
I hang you up and then I pull you down
I hang you up and then I pull you down
I get lost sometimes
Another year flies by
But I know if I try
Memories of the light in your eyes
Can take me back in time
It's hard to see you, we are older now
And when I find you, you just turn around
This is a black and white of you I found
I hang you up and then I pull you down
It's hard to see you we are older now (we are older now)
And when I find you, you just turn around (you turn around)
This is a black and white of you I found (you I found)
I hang you up and then I pull you down
(Pull you down)
I hang you up and then I pull you down
(Pull you down)
I hang you up and then I pull you down
(Pull you down)
I don't hear music anymore
My ears are tired of all the pictures in the words
'Cause you are in them, still
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
Hang You Up Lyrics as written by Ryan Michael Mendez Longineu Warren Iii Parsons
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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I can agree with most of what is said, but I don't believe he is looking at a picture.
"This is a black and white of you I found" To me, this sounds more like an analogy to me. Basically like he is saying a memory he is having of an old time, or a "black and white" moment in the past. Maybe before things changed between them and when things were at their best. I'm sure anyone can relate to that, and you are thinking of your own situation like this.
Basically a song about kind of holding on to someone you deeply care for, and not knowing if it's time to fix things, or as he alludes to in the song, move on because you cant hold on anymore. This situation is described perfectly here.
"I'm gonna miss you everyday I turn my back on anyone who won't believe And it gets lonely, still It gets lonely, still" This is where you get the feeling he wont listen to anyone who says bad things about the situation or the person. It has to be hard to stick up for someone who must be hurting you, but if the feelings are true, you unknowingly do it.
"I hang you up and then I pull you down" to me sounds like a reference to being unable to move on. As in by hanging you up, he is giving up, or like the saying in sports: "hanging up the cleats" for people who retire. But then he "pulls you down" or falls right back into feelings for the girl. Again, everyone has and does feel this. Some people can really make you want to give up, but you still hold on.
And the most amazing line I think I've heard from Yellowcard: "I don't hear music anymore My ears are tired of all the pictures in the words Cause you are in them, still."
Such beautiful lyrics that really makes perfect sense. Relating feelings to music is a source of healing and here, he is saying he doesn't hear music but rather memories that get stirred up, and he gets caught up in the memories he sees that are produced by the lyrics in the song. Because he isn't going to "hang you up", because he is enamored even through the pain. The power of words are amazing, and this is an example of stirring powerful feelings from such well-put lyrics.
Just a poor mans thoughts.