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"
Now and then I pace my place
I can't retrace how I got here
I cheat and lie to check my fates
It's slightly harder than last year
Then all at once it gets hard to take
It gets hard to fake what I won't be
'Cause one of these days I'll be born and raised
And it's such a waste to grow up lonely
I still have dreams, they're not the same
They don't fly as high as they used to
I saw my friend, he's in my head
And he said, "You don't remember me, do you?"
Then all at once it gets hard to take
It gets hard to fake what I won't be
'Cause one of these days I'll be born and raised
And it's such a waste to grow up lonely
I still got time, I still got faith
I call on both of my brothers
I got a mom, I got a dad
But they do not have each other
So line on up, take your place
And show your face to the morning
'Cause one of these days you'll be born and raised
And it all comes on without warning
I can't retrace how I got here
I cheat and lie to check my fates
It's slightly harder than last year
Then all at once it gets hard to take
It gets hard to fake what I won't be
'Cause one of these days I'll be born and raised
And it's such a waste to grow up lonely
I still have dreams, they're not the same
They don't fly as high as they used to
I saw my friend, he's in my head
And he said, "You don't remember me, do you?"
Then all at once it gets hard to take
It gets hard to fake what I won't be
'Cause one of these days I'll be born and raised
And it's such a waste to grow up lonely
I still got time, I still got faith
I call on both of my brothers
I got a mom, I got a dad
But they do not have each other
So line on up, take your place
And show your face to the morning
'Cause one of these days you'll be born and raised
And it all comes on without warning
Lyrics submitted by brian, edited by BobTheRhino, bernafuve
Born and Raised Lyrics as written by John Mayer
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Born and raised Like SOMETHING streets of grey
I was brought up on brighter days It's good to (sit down?), born and raised
Born and raised In half the time, I'll be twice my age Better learn how to turn the page 'Cause time is strange when you're born and raised
Born and raised Like SOMETHING streets of grey I was brought up on brighter days It's nice to (sit?), now I'm born and raised Now I'm born and raised Now I'm born and raised
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I think the whole first verse is;<br /> "Born and raised <br /> Locks of brown and streaks of grey<br /> I was brought up in brighter days<br /> It's good to say, now I'm born and raised"
Yeah, I think you're right. Thanks. So now I reckon that the whole songs lyrics are:<br /> <br /> Born and raised<br /> Locks of brown and streaks of grey<br /> I was brought up in brighter days<br /> It's good to say, now I'm born and raised<br /> <br /> Born and raised<br /> In half the time, I'll be twice my age<br /> Better learn how to turn the page<br /> 'Cause time is strange when you're born and raised<br /> <br /> Born and raised<br /> Locks of brown and streaks of grey<br /> I was brought up in brighter days<br /> It's nice to say, now I'm born and raised<br /> Now I'm born and raised<br /> Now I'm born and raised