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"
Ooh, yeah...
Need a helping hand,
Of all the people in the world,
I hoped you'd understand.
You and me
Have grown so far apart.
Don't show me faded photographs,
Just tell it from the heart.
And after all that we've been through,
Don't you know I feel for you,
We've got nothing in common,
So much to lose, yeah yeah yeah.
You say,
That boys must never cry.
If we keep our feelings to ourselves,
We'll be boys until we die (die-die-die-die-die-die). Ooh, yeah.
Inside this velvet glove,
There's always been an iron fist,
Destroying all we love
And after all that we've been through,
Don't you know I feel for you,
We've got nothing in common,
So much to lose, yeah yeah yeah.
And after all that we've been through,
Don't you know I feel for you,
We've got nothing in common,
So much to lose, yeah yeah yeah.
Oh, now there were times I wanted to shake you,
Break you, bring you to your knees.
Oh, now there were times I wanted to touch you,
Hold you, help me, help me please.
Whoa, oh whoa.
Such a crying shame.
You know I loved you then,
You know I love you now,
And nothing else has changed.
And after all that we've been through,
Don't you know I feel for you,
We've got nothing in common,
So much to lose, yeah yeah yeah.
And after all that we've been through,
Don't you know I feel for you,
We've got nothing in common,
So much to lose, yeah yeah yeah.
And after all that we've been through,
Don't you know I feel for you,
We've got nothing in common,
So much to lose, yeah yeah yeah.
Need a helping hand,
Of all the people in the world,
I hoped you'd understand.
You and me
Have grown so far apart.
Don't show me faded photographs,
Just tell it from the heart.
And after all that we've been through,
Don't you know I feel for you,
We've got nothing in common,
So much to lose, yeah yeah yeah.
You say,
That boys must never cry.
If we keep our feelings to ourselves,
We'll be boys until we die (die-die-die-die-die-die). Ooh, yeah.
Inside this velvet glove,
There's always been an iron fist,
Destroying all we love
And after all that we've been through,
Don't you know I feel for you,
We've got nothing in common,
So much to lose, yeah yeah yeah.
And after all that we've been through,
Don't you know I feel for you,
We've got nothing in common,
So much to lose, yeah yeah yeah.
Oh, now there were times I wanted to shake you,
Break you, bring you to your knees.
Oh, now there were times I wanted to touch you,
Hold you, help me, help me please.
Whoa, oh whoa.
Such a crying shame.
You know I loved you then,
You know I love you now,
And nothing else has changed.
And after all that we've been through,
Don't you know I feel for you,
We've got nothing in common,
So much to lose, yeah yeah yeah.
And after all that we've been through,
Don't you know I feel for you,
We've got nothing in common,
So much to lose, yeah yeah yeah.
And after all that we've been through,
Don't you know I feel for you,
We've got nothing in common,
So much to lose, yeah yeah yeah.
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Nothing in Common Lyrics as written by Tom Bailey Alannah Joy Currie
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