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"
There's a lot of nothing in the words, I know
But I keep on talking cause it feels like home.
It feels alright to be growing old,
But growing old is just letting go.
And it's just the reason I needed to leave this place,
I took to home, wanted to run away.
I had a different image on my mind,
This is the change that happens all the time.
And it comes as no surprise, it's like, oh
And I just don't know what you're doing wrong, yeah.
Wrong, wrong, man, you've got a lot of nerve.
And I just don't know what you're doing wrong, yeah.
Wrong, wrong, man, you've got a lot of nerve.
How come all my vices always breathe relief,
But a sip of gin saves an hour of speech
And yeah, it's fickle and it feels so cheap,
But I can rest and I can feel at ease.
Yes, my friends don't know, they're happy just listenin'
I'm at a loss cause I'm livin' it
It's not to say that I'm givin' in,
It's just that this is how it's always been
And it comes as no surprise, it's like, oh
And I just don't know what you're doing wrong, yeah.
Wrong, wrong, man, you've got a lot of nerve.
And I just don't know what you're doing wrong, yeah.
Wrong, wrong, man, you've got a lot of nerve.
I can't melt all of my worries in nothing, no
And I, I, I would.
And I keep trying but I always get let down, somehow
Man, you've got a lot of nerve.
But I keep on talking cause it feels like home.
It feels alright to be growing old,
But growing old is just letting go.
And it's just the reason I needed to leave this place,
I took to home, wanted to run away.
I had a different image on my mind,
This is the change that happens all the time.
And it comes as no surprise, it's like, oh
And I just don't know what you're doing wrong, yeah.
Wrong, wrong, man, you've got a lot of nerve.
And I just don't know what you're doing wrong, yeah.
Wrong, wrong, man, you've got a lot of nerve.
How come all my vices always breathe relief,
But a sip of gin saves an hour of speech
And yeah, it's fickle and it feels so cheap,
But I can rest and I can feel at ease.
Yes, my friends don't know, they're happy just listenin'
I'm at a loss cause I'm livin' it
It's not to say that I'm givin' in,
It's just that this is how it's always been
And it comes as no surprise, it's like, oh
And I just don't know what you're doing wrong, yeah.
Wrong, wrong, man, you've got a lot of nerve.
And I just don't know what you're doing wrong, yeah.
Wrong, wrong, man, you've got a lot of nerve.
I can't melt all of my worries in nothing, no
And I, I, I would.
And I keep trying but I always get let down, somehow
Man, you've got a lot of nerve.
Lyrics submitted by thepassionfruit, edited by ysabelcass, MegC, culprit
Nerve Lyrics as written by Devon Portielje Conner Molander
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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i just don't know what you're doing wrong man you've got a lot of nerve
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