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"
Got a feeling inside me I’m falling like rain
As I’m watching the time quickly twist down the drain
And I thought you’d be fine in the arms of another
I lost track of time with my head in the gutter but
I feel a bit better whenever I hear you’re in town even now that you’re gone.
And you said you’d believe me once I left for good
When we met up for drinks in the old neighborhood
I’ve got a sneaking suspicion you’ve learned your lesson just now
Do you remember the night I found you on the stairs?
To the sound of the train and the scraping of chairs
And with tears in your eyes you cried, “i’m coming loose
at the seams and I scream when I think of you
I’ve got nothing but time, I’m losing my mind so I’m through.”
Then your face turned blue
And you said you’d believe me once I left for good
When we met up for drinks in the old neighborhood
I’ve got a sneaking suspicion you’ve learned your lesson just now
And you thought that I’d leave you once I learned the truth
When we got lost as hell in that old photo booth
I’ve got a funny feeling you’re up on the ceiling no talking you down this time
So you left and I fell
Trying to drop a new dime down the old wishing well
And I crept from my shell,
Tried to put my life savings on the end of it all
And you said you’d believe me once I left for good
When we met up for drinks in the old neighborhood
I’ve got a sneaking suspicion you’re learning your lesson just now
Got a feeling inside me I’m falling like rain
As I’m watching the time quickly twist down the drain
As I’m watching the time quickly twist down the drain
And I thought you’d be fine in the arms of another
I lost track of time with my head in the gutter but
I feel a bit better whenever I hear you’re in town even now that you’re gone.
And you said you’d believe me once I left for good
When we met up for drinks in the old neighborhood
I’ve got a sneaking suspicion you’ve learned your lesson just now
Do you remember the night I found you on the stairs?
To the sound of the train and the scraping of chairs
And with tears in your eyes you cried, “i’m coming loose
at the seams and I scream when I think of you
I’ve got nothing but time, I’m losing my mind so I’m through.”
Then your face turned blue
And you said you’d believe me once I left for good
When we met up for drinks in the old neighborhood
I’ve got a sneaking suspicion you’ve learned your lesson just now
And you thought that I’d leave you once I learned the truth
When we got lost as hell in that old photo booth
I’ve got a funny feeling you’re up on the ceiling no talking you down this time
So you left and I fell
Trying to drop a new dime down the old wishing well
And I crept from my shell,
Tried to put my life savings on the end of it all
And you said you’d believe me once I left for good
When we met up for drinks in the old neighborhood
I’ve got a sneaking suspicion you’re learning your lesson just now
Got a feeling inside me I’m falling like rain
As I’m watching the time quickly twist down the drain
Lyrics submitted by fastball45
Falling Like Rain Lyrics as written by Matt Skiba
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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