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"
'the attitude here is one of anger, bordering on insanity; a mood we all had to
Get into to do this song. broken strings, a dozen picks, a lot of coffee and 10
Drum sticks!! I'm a poet and I don't even know it! ha!!'
I'm getting sick and tired of wasting all my time
And trying to read between your lines
It's hard to see yourself, when the mirror's cracked
Why don't you try to see the signs
It's time to realise
It's not that hard to see
Just open up your eyes
I've got bats in the belfry
Why not take all of me, or was this all in vain
I'm crying out 'don't take me down with you'
My pain and all your problems are coming to the boil
So tired of all the hell I've been put through
It's time to realise
It's not that hard to see
Just open up your eyes
I've got bats in the belfry
Why don't you listen
I'm trying to help you
You don't, don't give a damn
Why can't you hear me
I'm trying to save you
You don't give a, you don't, don't give a damn
Anxiety attacks as confusion rips at the mind
Help me, my head is spinning round and round
Help me, I guess you'll never know until it hits you in the face like a bat
I sit here in my room without too much to say
At least I'll live to see another day, no thanks to you
Too late to realise
It wasn't that hard to see
Just open up your eyes
I've got bats in the belfry
Get into to do this song. broken strings, a dozen picks, a lot of coffee and 10
Drum sticks!! I'm a poet and I don't even know it! ha!!'
I'm getting sick and tired of wasting all my time
And trying to read between your lines
It's hard to see yourself, when the mirror's cracked
Why don't you try to see the signs
It's time to realise
It's not that hard to see
Just open up your eyes
I've got bats in the belfry
Why not take all of me, or was this all in vain
I'm crying out 'don't take me down with you'
My pain and all your problems are coming to the boil
So tired of all the hell I've been put through
It's time to realise
It's not that hard to see
Just open up your eyes
I've got bats in the belfry
Why don't you listen
I'm trying to help you
You don't, don't give a damn
Why can't you hear me
I'm trying to save you
You don't give a, you don't, don't give a damn
Anxiety attacks as confusion rips at the mind
Help me, my head is spinning round and round
Help me, I guess you'll never know until it hits you in the face like a bat
I sit here in my room without too much to say
At least I'll live to see another day, no thanks to you
Too late to realise
It wasn't that hard to see
Just open up your eyes
I've got bats in the belfry
Lyrics submitted by SongMeanings, edited by Kingofstilport
Bats in the Belfry Lyrics as written by Jeffrey Bruce Waters Coburn Pharr
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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