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"
I've got a life out there somewhere
It's waiting
Lined with palm trees and only new faces
If I could look past the
Present and get there
Well, baby, it's worth a shot
Just enough time to plan an escape route
I put my map on the wall in the basement
Not quite a victory to run from your problems
But it's the only plan that I got
It's the only plan that I got
And if you try to find me now (Oh oh oh)
I'm in all the echoes that have faded out
So, I'm moving on 'Cause I just want to feel
For once that I belong
That's what's going on
That's what's going on
Crossed the state line and
Called out a warning
Not too long now, I'll breathe California
Paid my dues and I tried to be loyal
But now I'm done with all that
Where I'm going is everyone's story
We want, you left, we're left to start over
It's not a question of who are we really
It's who we want to be
And if you try to find me now (Oh oh oh)
I'm in all the echoes that have faded out
So, I'm moving on 'Cause I just want to feel
For once that I belong
And that's what's going on
All that's in between
A brand new life and I this time
But time has not been kind
It's not been kind to me
It's winding backwards
Time has not been kind it's crawling by
So slowly
And if you try to find me now (Oh oh oh)
I'm in all the echoes that have faded out
So, I'm moving on 'Cause I just want to feel
For once that I belong
And that's what's going on
And if you try to find me now (Oh oh oh)
I'm in all the echoes that have faded out
So, I'm moving on 'Cause I just want to feel
For once that I belong
And that's what's going on
It's waiting
Lined with palm trees and only new faces
If I could look past the
Present and get there
Well, baby, it's worth a shot
Just enough time to plan an escape route
I put my map on the wall in the basement
Not quite a victory to run from your problems
But it's the only plan that I got
It's the only plan that I got
And if you try to find me now (Oh oh oh)
I'm in all the echoes that have faded out
So, I'm moving on 'Cause I just want to feel
For once that I belong
That's what's going on
That's what's going on
Crossed the state line and
Called out a warning
Not too long now, I'll breathe California
Paid my dues and I tried to be loyal
But now I'm done with all that
Where I'm going is everyone's story
We want, you left, we're left to start over
It's not a question of who are we really
It's who we want to be
And if you try to find me now (Oh oh oh)
I'm in all the echoes that have faded out
So, I'm moving on 'Cause I just want to feel
For once that I belong
And that's what's going on
All that's in between
A brand new life and I this time
But time has not been kind
It's not been kind to me
It's winding backwards
Time has not been kind it's crawling by
So slowly
And if you try to find me now (Oh oh oh)
I'm in all the echoes that have faded out
So, I'm moving on 'Cause I just want to feel
For once that I belong
And that's what's going on
And if you try to find me now (Oh oh oh)
I'm in all the echoes that have faded out
So, I'm moving on 'Cause I just want to feel
For once that I belong
And that's what's going on
Lyrics submitted by cosmickiss
Escape Route Lyrics as written by Hayley Nichole Williams Taylor York
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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