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"
She's thunderstorms
Lyin' on her front
Up against the wall
She's thunderstorms
I've been feelin' foolish
You should try it
She came and substituted
The peace and quiet for
Acrobatic blood flow concertina
Cheatin' heart beat
Rapid fire
She's thunderstorms
Lyin' on her front
Up against the wall
She's thunderstorms
Here is your host
Sounds as if she's pretty close
When the heat starts growing horns
She's thunderstorms
She's been loop-the-loopin'
Around my mind
Her motorcycle boots give
Me this kind of
Acrobatic blood concertina
Cheatin' heart beat
Rapid fire
She's thunderstorms
Lyin' on her front
Up against the wall
She's thunderstorms
In an unusual place
When you're feelin' far away
She does what the night does to the day
She's thunderstorms
Lyin' on her front
Up against the wall
She's thunderstorms
Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms
Lyin' on her front
Up against the wall
She's thunderstorms
I've been feelin' foolish
You should try it
She came and substituted
The peace and quiet for
Acrobatic blood flow concertina
Cheatin' heart beat
Rapid fire
She's thunderstorms
Lyin' on her front
Up against the wall
She's thunderstorms
Here is your host
Sounds as if she's pretty close
When the heat starts growing horns
She's thunderstorms
She's been loop-the-loopin'
Around my mind
Her motorcycle boots give
Me this kind of
Acrobatic blood concertina
Cheatin' heart beat
Rapid fire
She's thunderstorms
Lyin' on her front
Up against the wall
She's thunderstorms
In an unusual place
When you're feelin' far away
She does what the night does to the day
She's thunderstorms
Lyin' on her front
Up against the wall
She's thunderstorms
Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms
Lyrics submitted by gemmalouise89, edited by Cosmeow
She's Thunderstorms Lyrics as written by Alex Turner
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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