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"
Hang on for the ride
I think I feel a change of tide
Just stay for one night
One day you’re going to be my wife
You’ll never have to worry again
I’m going to be your man
Oh someday
When tall-boys turn into champagne
When bologna turns into steak
When I got gold instead of change
When I can give you everything you
Ever wanted instead of take oh someday
I wish you could depend on me
I want to have your mouth to feed
I want to put your mind at ease
No reason you'd ever leave
You and I can both be free
Well things ain't so cool right now
Well I promise it'll get better
Find anyway somehow that'll make you
Want to stay forever
Oh someday
When tall-boys turn into champagne
When bologna turns into steak
When I got gold instead of change
When I can give you everything you
Ever wanted instead of take oh someday
When I can give you everything you
Ever wanted instead of take oh someday
I wish you could depend on me
I want to have your mouth to feed
I want to put your mind at ease
No reason you'd ever leave
You and I can both be free
Well things ain't so cool right now
Well I promise it'll get better
Find anyway somehow that'll make you
Want to stay forever
Oh someday
When tall-boys turn into champagne
When bologna turns into steak
When I got gold instead of change
When I can give you everything you
Ever wanted instead of take oh
When I can give you everything you
Ever wanted instead of take oh someday
Hang on for the ride
I think I feel a change of tide
Just stay for one night
One day you’re going to be my wife
Oh someday
When tall-boys turn into champagne
When bologna turns into steak
When I got gold instead of change
When I can give you everything you
Ever wanted instead of take oh someday
I think I feel a change of tide
Just stay for one night
One day you’re going to be my wife
You’ll never have to worry again
I’m going to be your man
Oh someday
When tall-boys turn into champagne
When bologna turns into steak
When I got gold instead of change
When I can give you everything you
Ever wanted instead of take oh someday
I wish you could depend on me
I want to have your mouth to feed
I want to put your mind at ease
No reason you'd ever leave
You and I can both be free
Well things ain't so cool right now
Well I promise it'll get better
Find anyway somehow that'll make you
Want to stay forever
Oh someday
When tall-boys turn into champagne
When bologna turns into steak
When I got gold instead of change
When I can give you everything you
Ever wanted instead of take oh someday
When I can give you everything you
Ever wanted instead of take oh someday
I wish you could depend on me
I want to have your mouth to feed
I want to put your mind at ease
No reason you'd ever leave
You and I can both be free
Well things ain't so cool right now
Well I promise it'll get better
Find anyway somehow that'll make you
Want to stay forever
Oh someday
When tall-boys turn into champagne
When bologna turns into steak
When I got gold instead of change
When I can give you everything you
Ever wanted instead of take oh
When I can give you everything you
Ever wanted instead of take oh someday
Hang on for the ride
I think I feel a change of tide
Just stay for one night
One day you’re going to be my wife
Oh someday
When tall-boys turn into champagne
When bologna turns into steak
When I got gold instead of change
When I can give you everything you
Ever wanted instead of take oh someday
Lyrics submitted by SofPadilla, edited by maiay8943, johnnyvanilla, sydbarrett
Someday Lyrics as written by Julian Casablancas
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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