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"
She's here at the bar and she's drinking alone
Her friends in the car and they're ready to go
Doesn't drink when she's happy and right now, she's down
She's betting on karma to come back around
She said my demons got demons
And my tears, they got reasons
And the bartender came to interrupt
I started thinking as he filled up her cup
I just met a girl with a fake smile
Said she ain't been good in a great while
Tryna get ahead, but she keeps on stumbling
Hard to live in a world that's crumbling
I just met a girl with a fake smile
Said she got to laugh so she don't cry
Tryna get ahead, but she keeps on stumbling
Hard to live in a world that's crumbling, oh
It takes one to know one, it takes one to know
It takes one to know one, I know how it goes
I've been caught in the spiral and living a lie
When every breath is like a twist of the knife
She said my demons got demons
And my tears, they got reasons
And the bartender came to interrupt
I started thinking as he filled up her cup
I just met a girl with a fake smile
Said she ain't been good in a great while
Tryna get ahead, but she keeps on stumbling
Hard to live in a world that's crumbling
I just met a girl with a fake smile
Said she got to laugh so she don't cry (don't cry)
Tryna get ahead, but she keeps on stumbling
Hard to live in a world that's crumbling, oh
She said she needs someone to hold
She said the world keeps getting colder
I told her I know how it goes
I told her I know how it goes
It's getting late, I'm going home
Started to leave and then I told her
I know it's hard to be alone
Hope it gets better down the road, yeah, yeah, yeah
Her friends in the car and they're ready to go
Doesn't drink when she's happy and right now, she's down
She's betting on karma to come back around
She said my demons got demons
And my tears, they got reasons
And the bartender came to interrupt
I started thinking as he filled up her cup
I just met a girl with a fake smile
Said she ain't been good in a great while
Tryna get ahead, but she keeps on stumbling
Hard to live in a world that's crumbling
I just met a girl with a fake smile
Said she got to laugh so she don't cry
Tryna get ahead, but she keeps on stumbling
Hard to live in a world that's crumbling, oh
It takes one to know one, it takes one to know
It takes one to know one, I know how it goes
I've been caught in the spiral and living a lie
When every breath is like a twist of the knife
She said my demons got demons
And my tears, they got reasons
And the bartender came to interrupt
I started thinking as he filled up her cup
I just met a girl with a fake smile
Said she ain't been good in a great while
Tryna get ahead, but she keeps on stumbling
Hard to live in a world that's crumbling
I just met a girl with a fake smile
Said she got to laugh so she don't cry (don't cry)
Tryna get ahead, but she keeps on stumbling
Hard to live in a world that's crumbling, oh
She said she needs someone to hold
She said the world keeps getting colder
I told her I know how it goes
I told her I know how it goes
It's getting late, I'm going home
Started to leave and then I told her
I know it's hard to be alone
Hope it gets better down the road, yeah, yeah, yeah
Lyrics submitted by sunnybunnygirl
Fake Smile Lyrics as written by Brett Leland Mclaughlin Andrew James Jr. Luce
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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