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"
Here the lights fall just as hard
A bit softer in the stall
It's not really wrong
It's not really right
I'm wide awake
She's upfront, upshot
Upstart up in every case
The kind of girl that whispers
Thank god for you
Oh yeah, all you got/need is me
Her confusion is in
The night that I stumbled
It's in the morning
That I that I struggled
Because I start to forget
But she will always remember
The kind of girl who laughs and says
Get up off your knees
Oh yeah, all you need/want is me
So you come and so you go
Tell me how hard how fast
Baby, tell me how high I must go
Tell me what you want
And tell me what you need
Tell me how hard, how fast, baby
How high I must go
Oh yeah, well all you need is me
This is the time of my life
A bit softer in the stall
It's not really wrong
It's not really right
I'm wide awake
She's upfront, upshot
Upstart up in every case
The kind of girl that whispers
Thank god for you
Oh yeah, all you got/need is me
Her confusion is in
The night that I stumbled
It's in the morning
That I that I struggled
Because I start to forget
But she will always remember
The kind of girl who laughs and says
Get up off your knees
Oh yeah, all you need/want is me
So you come and so you go
Tell me how hard how fast
Baby, tell me how high I must go
Tell me what you want
And tell me what you need
Tell me how hard, how fast, baby
How high I must go
Oh yeah, well all you need is me
This is the time of my life
Lyrics submitted by killingjuliet
All You Got Lyrics as written by Tegan Quin Sara Quin
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I think this is about Girl 1, who's in love with this guy and she'll do anything for him ("Tell me how hard how fast baby tell me how high i must go"), but he's already got Girl 2. Girl 1 thinks that maybe Girl 2 is a little better of a person than she is ("she's upfront upshot upfront in every case") but she also believes that this guy would be better off with herself ("all you got/need/want is me").
That's my interpretation, but it may be way off. Does anyone else LOVE Tegan's ( i think it's tegan) voice in this one?
They're lesbians, both of them. So, that makes the theory, different from my theory.l can't say WRONG because l'm not one of the Quinn Twins and well "The kind of girl that says, thank god for you" suggests girl 1 is interested in girl 2 sexually and there is no boy involved what so ever. lt's one of my favourite T&S songs.
I think it's about having a ahem thing with a friend and how it changes your whole relationship to her.
"because I start to forget but she will always remember" means even though you're trying to pretend it never happened doesn't mean it'll just go away.
The song is about two lesbians with a relationship I want.
The singer’s saying she doesn’t see the situation as a dream. She’s wide awake while everything is happening with this other girl who’s forward, carefree and knows exactly what she wants.
“She's upfront, upshot Upstart up in every case”
In the case of dealing with your sexuality you have feelings of right and wrong as people challenge you. It feels right to you, but people will always say otherwise which is why she says:
“It's not really wrong It's not really right”
But she’s wide awake and she knows this is what she wants.
l'ma prolly sing this song to my girlie when l see her cause, l'm sweet like that. l fully realized how cracked out l was when l babbled on earlier, but yeah l agree whole heartedly that yes its about lesbians, yes they were friends and the friendship transformed into something else
1- "it's not really wrong it's not really right" just how she percieves whats going on and how she feels about it? like, l always felt 1/2 like WOW I AM SO HAVING FUN AND SOOOOOO GOING TO BURN IN HELL BUT ITS BLOODY WELL WORTH IT
2-"her confusion is in the night that I stumbled it's in the morning that I that I struggled because I start to forget but she will always remember" SOOOOOOOOOO struck me as a time l did..stuff..drunk with a friend, and just waking up and thinking, ..what a night omg my head someone please turn off the sun... and l tried to block it out and be like noooo l'm straight l was just totally hammered but l secretly loved it and when l came to terms with it l was better for it
3- "this is the time of my life" - the heightened emotion makes you feel very alive and very like everythings new and like a total epiphany
jenniwilliams, smart girl. i agree completely. definately the relationship i want...
I agree with jenni too, I think most girls(or all people really)would love a relationship like this, but it's so hard to find...besides the meaning, damn this song is just so damn sassy sounding during this part:
"tell me how hard how fast baby tell me how high I must go"
really, the vocals in general in this song are very sexy =p
baaasically my relationship in a nutshell. but a little different from how it seems like they meant it. my girlfriend lives 700 miles away right now (i'm in chicago, she's in new york). the first line i feel really explains that our cities aren't all the different.
"she's up front..." that's her. she's crazy energetic and into so much and really informed about stuff. the middle stuff i associate with jsut some random stuff about us. "tell me what you want..." is like expressing exactly what i feel for her. i'd do anything for her.
I agree with jenniwilliams also...
But I almost wonder if it could also be about a drunken night spent with a friend. Girl 1 has let loose of her inhibitions; but in the morning, is ashamed of her newfound sexuality and wants to forget it. Girl 2 is, indeed, forward and knows what she wants. Girl 2 presses the relationship until Girl 1 realizes that it's all she ever needed or wanted.
I think there's a few different ways you could interpret this one. I love T&S.
I agree with jenniwilliams also...
But I almost wonder if it could also be about a drunken night spent with a friend. Girl 1 has let loose of her inhibitions; but in the morning, is ashamed of her newfound sexuality and wants to forget it. Girl 2 is, indeed, forward and knows what she wants. Girl 2 presses the relationship until Girl 1 realizes that it's all she ever needed or wanted.
I think there's a few different ways you could interpret this one. I love T&S.