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"
it's late at night
and all i can think about
is how i went to work
and just sat around
and wasted my whole day
time goes by
and soon we forget about
the way we looked
the dumb things that mattered
as our lives just slipped away
i mope around
like there's nothing to do
another day
and i'm looking for something new
i can't understand why i'm feeling this way
memories come but they just fade away
it's late at night
and all i can think about
is how i went to work
and just sat around
and wasted my whole day
time goes by
and soon we forget about
the way we looked
the dumb things that mattered
as our lives just slipped away
i mope around
like there's nothing to do
another day
and i'm looking for something new
i can't understand why i'm feeling this way
memories come but they just fade away
and i'm looking for something new
i can't understand why i'm feeling this way
memories come but they just fade away
and all i can think about
is how i went to work
and just sat around
and wasted my whole day
time goes by
and soon we forget about
the way we looked
the dumb things that mattered
as our lives just slipped away
i mope around
like there's nothing to do
another day
and i'm looking for something new
i can't understand why i'm feeling this way
memories come but they just fade away
it's late at night
and all i can think about
is how i went to work
and just sat around
and wasted my whole day
time goes by
and soon we forget about
the way we looked
the dumb things that mattered
as our lives just slipped away
i mope around
like there's nothing to do
another day
and i'm looking for something new
i can't understand why i'm feeling this way
memories come but they just fade away
and i'm looking for something new
i can't understand why i'm feeling this way
memories come but they just fade away
Lyrics submitted by Alucard
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I really like this song.. Allister is such an awesome band. I think this song is saying that all he does is sit around and watch his life pass him by. Hes bored because he does the same thing everyday and nothing new or exciting ever happens in his life. He cant figure out why this is all happening to him but instead of trying to do something new or trying to take control of his life and make it more fun for himself, he just sits around and waits for it to happen.
i mope around i alot. i listen to this song while i mope
thank you allister for writing the story of my life! i love this song, and i can relate to it so much. i admit, i am such a moper, it's not even funny. it's all about being bored and feeling pathetic for wasting your time. this could easily be my biography.
I really love this song the lyrics are great and so is the music and vocals it fucking kicks ass
everything about de song rocks!
its a really sad song if you think about it. i'm in a rut right now, and have no motivation or anything, and i'm just feeling really blue. this song describes how i feel perfectly. i love it! ALLISTER RULZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Allister is fucking awesome and that's all i gotta say
pretty self-explanitory song, great band, love the lyrics to pretty much all of their songs. rock on
First Allister song i ever heard..
i love it. <3