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"
Too much time spent
Thinking of ways to die.
Sticky liquid filters shield our eyes
From the sun
I'll try to be more
Open in my hope for our time
Blur the lines dividing what is ours
And what is mine.
Mother Theresa's been working nights
Say no more, I'm on my way
Gandhi's getting fed up,
He's looking for a fight
Say mo more, I'm on my way
And we all go down
And we all go down again
I swore I'd bring you something sort of mine...
Hands above my head, stealing sunlight from the sky
And I lost myself when you went away
Say no more, I'm on my way
Anyway... 'bye and we all go down
And we all go down again
I will pass on things that I've been shown
You'll see too why I feel so alone in this world
I'll try to be more open with my hope for out time
Blur the lines dividing what is our
And what is mine
Say no more, I'm on my way to the sky
Thinking of ways to die.
Sticky liquid filters shield our eyes
From the sun
I'll try to be more
Open in my hope for our time
Blur the lines dividing what is ours
And what is mine.
Mother Theresa's been working nights
Say no more, I'm on my way
Gandhi's getting fed up,
He's looking for a fight
Say mo more, I'm on my way
And we all go down
And we all go down again
I swore I'd bring you something sort of mine...
Hands above my head, stealing sunlight from the sky
And I lost myself when you went away
Say no more, I'm on my way
Anyway... 'bye and we all go down
And we all go down again
I will pass on things that I've been shown
You'll see too why I feel so alone in this world
I'll try to be more open with my hope for out time
Blur the lines dividing what is our
And what is mine
Say no more, I'm on my way to the sky
Lyrics submitted by dragonflower44, edited by bof
All Go Down Lyrics as written by John Gutenberger Chris Robyn
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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I love this song. Often its been the only song in my playlist for hours at a time because i can just keep listening to it over and over again. It's nice to hear how they grew from the version that was on quick to the on that is on the Godmoney sound track. Not quite sure why but the last time i listened to it for hours at a time was when one of my best friends left for the marines and I just knew that things would never be the same. And they haven't been.
i love the lines: "I swore id bring you something" all the way through "goodbye goodbye"
ive ony heard the acoustic version of this. is there a full band version?
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i wish i could find the acoustic version of this song :( i love it
one of my favourite songs ever. i only know the acoustic version...if anyone wants to know where to find it ...contact me :)
I love the sigh at the beginning of this song. It's an homage to the sigh at the beginning of Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah.