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'm a bit too pop for the punk kids
But I'm too punk for the pop kids
I don't know just where I fit in
'Cause when I open my mouth I know nobody's listenin'
To the words of a prophet, ha, still can't turn a profit
'Cause I don't fit in with the in crowd
But I'm too Hollywood to go back to my hometown
'Cause they think that I'm famous
When I know I'm a fraud
Who got too fucked up on the finer things
To remember who he forgot
But I believe there's more to life than all my problems
Maybe there's still hope for me to start again
Get my feet back on the ground
Pull my head out of the clouds
I think it's time for me to figure me out
Let's get back to the basics
And take it back to the basement
Where I heard Born To Run for the first time
And I stared at my dad in amazement
He said, "Son don't stop chasing great and
Keep pounding the pavement"
So I'd much rather die tryin' to make something sacred
Than live as another Youtube sensation
'Cause I hate that they're famous
For being something they're not
While I'm too hung up on the things I don't have
To appreciate what I've got
But I believe there's more to life than all my problems
Maybe there's still hope for me to start again
Get my feet back on the ground
Pull my head out of the clouds
I think it's time for me to figure me out
Time for me to figure me out
Time for me to figure me out
So if you hear this song turn it up real loud
'Cause it's time for me to figure me out
Alright, if you hear this song turn it up real loud
'Cause it's time for me to figure me out
I believe there's more to life than all my problems
I just wanna fall in love before I'm dead
So I can make my parents proud
Hope my feet don't fail me now
'Cause it's time for me to figure me out
But I'm too punk for the pop kids
I don't know just where I fit in
'Cause when I open my mouth I know nobody's listenin'
To the words of a prophet, ha, still can't turn a profit
'Cause I don't fit in with the in crowd
But I'm too Hollywood to go back to my hometown
'Cause they think that I'm famous
When I know I'm a fraud
Who got too fucked up on the finer things
To remember who he forgot
But I believe there's more to life than all my problems
Maybe there's still hope for me to start again
Get my feet back on the ground
Pull my head out of the clouds
I think it's time for me to figure me out
Let's get back to the basics
And take it back to the basement
Where I heard Born To Run for the first time
And I stared at my dad in amazement
He said, "Son don't stop chasing great and
Keep pounding the pavement"
So I'd much rather die tryin' to make something sacred
Than live as another Youtube sensation
'Cause I hate that they're famous
For being something they're not
While I'm too hung up on the things I don't have
To appreciate what I've got
But I believe there's more to life than all my problems
Maybe there's still hope for me to start again
Get my feet back on the ground
Pull my head out of the clouds
I think it's time for me to figure me out
Time for me to figure me out
Time for me to figure me out
So if you hear this song turn it up real loud
'Cause it's time for me to figure me out
Alright, if you hear this song turn it up real loud
'Cause it's time for me to figure me out
I believe there's more to life than all my problems
I just wanna fall in love before I'm dead
So I can make my parents proud
Hope my feet don't fail me now
'Cause it's time for me to figure me out
Lyrics submitted by Skoobasteve24
Figure Me Out Lyrics as written by John Christopher Gomez Brian Dales
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
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