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"
One more shot, then I'm quitting forever
Cross my heart, cross my fingers
Woke up this morning
The room was spinning
And I don't remember what I did last night
Beg the ceiling for forgiveness
And I don't want to remember what I did last night
When I was drunk I might have said some things I didn't mean
It's nothing wrong with you, it's something wrong with me
I'm running dry from now on
How come no one believes me?
Believe me
Step one: drink
Step two: make mistakes
Step three: pretend you don't remember
Step four: drink a little more
Step five: I need to run dry
I need to run dry
My liver's killing me
But willingly I'm going to tell whoever asks that I feel all right
I beg the ceiling for forgiveness
And I don't want to remember what I did last night
When I was drunk I might have said some things I didn't mean
It's nothing wrong with you, it's something wrong with me
Step one: drink
Step two: make mistakes
Step three: pretend you don't remember
Step four: drink a little more
Step five: I need to run dry
I need to run dry
I'm gonna take one more shot
Then I'm quitting forever
Cross my heart
Cross my fingers
I'm gonna take one more shot
Then I'm quitting forever
Cross my heart
Cross my fingers
I get drunk a little too much
For it to be healthy
No one wants to tell me
Whisky
I'm trying to cut back
Wine
I'm trying to cut back
They say everything in moderation
But I'll drink you under the table
I'm not just drunk
I really think I'm in love with you
(Okay, I really am just drunk)
Step one: drink
Step two: make mistakes
Step three: pretend you don't remember
Step four: drink a little more
Step five: I need to run dry
I need to run dry
I'm gonna take one more shot
Then I'm quitting forever
Cross my heart
Cross my fingers
I'm gonna take one more shot
Then I'm quitting forever
Cross my heart
Cross my fingers
Cross my heart, cross my fingers
Woke up this morning
The room was spinning
And I don't remember what I did last night
Beg the ceiling for forgiveness
And I don't want to remember what I did last night
When I was drunk I might have said some things I didn't mean
It's nothing wrong with you, it's something wrong with me
I'm running dry from now on
How come no one believes me?
Believe me
Step one: drink
Step two: make mistakes
Step three: pretend you don't remember
Step four: drink a little more
Step five: I need to run dry
I need to run dry
My liver's killing me
But willingly I'm going to tell whoever asks that I feel all right
I beg the ceiling for forgiveness
And I don't want to remember what I did last night
When I was drunk I might have said some things I didn't mean
It's nothing wrong with you, it's something wrong with me
Step one: drink
Step two: make mistakes
Step three: pretend you don't remember
Step four: drink a little more
Step five: I need to run dry
I need to run dry
I'm gonna take one more shot
Then I'm quitting forever
Cross my heart
Cross my fingers
I'm gonna take one more shot
Then I'm quitting forever
Cross my heart
Cross my fingers
I get drunk a little too much
For it to be healthy
No one wants to tell me
Whisky
I'm trying to cut back
Wine
I'm trying to cut back
They say everything in moderation
But I'll drink you under the table
I'm not just drunk
I really think I'm in love with you
(Okay, I really am just drunk)
Step one: drink
Step two: make mistakes
Step three: pretend you don't remember
Step four: drink a little more
Step five: I need to run dry
I need to run dry
I'm gonna take one more shot
Then I'm quitting forever
Cross my heart
Cross my fingers
I'm gonna take one more shot
Then I'm quitting forever
Cross my heart
Cross my fingers
Lyrics submitted by kurdt105, edited by agraham208
Run Dry (X Heart X Fingers) Lyrics as written by Patrick Stump
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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