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"
yesterday seems faraway and i can see it true
i don't believe you're leaving me with nothing on the tube
operating slowly as the air is growing thin
wake me up each morning don't forget to plug me in
have you seen me lately i'm as happy as a loon
wait until your ship comes in and pasteurise your crew
and i don't believe in a life that i can't feel
and i don't believe in a life that i can't feel
constellations overhead shine lightly down on you
their influences unrelated to your present mood
and i can see you're on your own although your heart is true
so come in 'cos your card is up your time is overdue
i don't believe in a life that i can't feel
and i don't believe in a life that i can't feel
i've made up my mind the fire is lit
i had to buy my bed i'd better lie on it
but what does it matter i'm lost in space
i'm just another loser in the human race
you're forcing my hand to make it plain
i'm not very happy and i cannot explain
well i can feel better by looking the part
i have to find a way to stay true to my heart
i love my girl and she loves me
i won't find another who can sail my sea
she's in my head and on my mind
i'm off my rocker with a girl so fine
well here's the hour and where will it end
i can't buy a t shirt to impress all my friends
i'm trying my hardest i'm trying to fit in
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
chorus repeated throughout above
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i don't believe you're leaving me with nothing on the tube
operating slowly as the air is growing thin
wake me up each morning don't forget to plug me in
have you seen me lately i'm as happy as a loon
wait until your ship comes in and pasteurise your crew
and i don't believe in a life that i can't feel
and i don't believe in a life that i can't feel
constellations overhead shine lightly down on you
their influences unrelated to your present mood
and i can see you're on your own although your heart is true
so come in 'cos your card is up your time is overdue
i don't believe in a life that i can't feel
and i don't believe in a life that i can't feel
i've made up my mind the fire is lit
i had to buy my bed i'd better lie on it
but what does it matter i'm lost in space
i'm just another loser in the human race
you're forcing my hand to make it plain
i'm not very happy and i cannot explain
well i can feel better by looking the part
i have to find a way to stay true to my heart
i love my girl and she loves me
i won't find another who can sail my sea
she's in my head and on my mind
i'm off my rocker with a girl so fine
well here's the hour and where will it end
i can't buy a t shirt to impress all my friends
i'm trying my hardest i'm trying to fit in
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
i'll make a new start i don't know where to begin
chorus repeated throughout above
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Supergrass
More from album :
Supergrass
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