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"
Start over
I can't make sense of this
You mumble your words when you don't wanna hurt feelings
Calm down, cage bird, get to the heart of it
Life's not what you thought it'd be
Tell me when it ever really is
Oh, what, are we strangers on the same side?
When best friends and lovers collide
I'm never saying never again
But we had it coming
'Cause we don't like gray clouds around
They only ever bring us down
The deeper the doubt, the harder it rains
But we had it coming
'Cause we don't want our colors to fade
It's lights out for us all some day
But stay on the bright side of things, okay
We shared the same set of eyes for so long
I can't even see myself without you looking back through me
You're the best thing that's ever happened to me
However, the brighter the feather, the harder it's to set free
Oh, are, are we strangers on the same side?
When best friends and lovers divide
You're never saying never again
But we had it coming
'Cause we don't like gray clouds around
They only ever bring us down
The deeper the doubt, the harder it rains
But we had it coming
'Cause we don't want our colors to fade
It's lights out for us all some day
But stay on the bright side of things, okay
Oh, are, are we strangers on the same side?
When best friends and lovers collide
We're never saying never again
But we had it coming
'Cause we don't like gray clouds around
They only ever bring us down
The deeper the doubt, the harder it rains
But we had it coming
'Cause we don't want our colors to fade
It's lights out for us all some day
But stay on the bright side of things, okay
But stay on the bright side of things, my love
But stay on the bright side of things, okay
Okay
Okay
Okay
I can't make sense of this
You mumble your words when you don't wanna hurt feelings
Calm down, cage bird, get to the heart of it
Life's not what you thought it'd be
Tell me when it ever really is
Oh, what, are we strangers on the same side?
When best friends and lovers collide
I'm never saying never again
But we had it coming
'Cause we don't like gray clouds around
They only ever bring us down
The deeper the doubt, the harder it rains
But we had it coming
'Cause we don't want our colors to fade
It's lights out for us all some day
But stay on the bright side of things, okay
We shared the same set of eyes for so long
I can't even see myself without you looking back through me
You're the best thing that's ever happened to me
However, the brighter the feather, the harder it's to set free
Oh, are, are we strangers on the same side?
When best friends and lovers divide
You're never saying never again
But we had it coming
'Cause we don't like gray clouds around
They only ever bring us down
The deeper the doubt, the harder it rains
But we had it coming
'Cause we don't want our colors to fade
It's lights out for us all some day
But stay on the bright side of things, okay
Oh, are, are we strangers on the same side?
When best friends and lovers collide
We're never saying never again
But we had it coming
'Cause we don't like gray clouds around
They only ever bring us down
The deeper the doubt, the harder it rains
But we had it coming
'Cause we don't want our colors to fade
It's lights out for us all some day
But stay on the bright side of things, okay
But stay on the bright side of things, my love
But stay on the bright side of things, okay
Okay
Okay
Okay
Lyrics submitted by jswa8
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