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"
Look who's talking to their shadow like one who hasn't got a friend
Like somebody with a broken heart that is never gonna mend
Look who's walking through the night in the rain like one who's under a spell
Like somebody with a lot on their mind, but no one to tell
Everyone you see seems so happy and carefree
They've found someone to love, but you are alone
Look who's flipping through the photographs of those happier days
Only losing something beautiful could make a person feel this way
Everyone you see seems so happy and carefree
They've found someone to love, but you are alone
Look who's talking to their shadow like one who hasn't got a friend
Like somebody with a broken heart that is never gonna mend..
Like somebody with a broken heart that is never gonna mend
Look who's walking through the night in the rain like one who's under a spell
Like somebody with a lot on their mind, but no one to tell
Everyone you see seems so happy and carefree
They've found someone to love, but you are alone
Look who's flipping through the photographs of those happier days
Only losing something beautiful could make a person feel this way
Everyone you see seems so happy and carefree
They've found someone to love, but you are alone
Look who's talking to their shadow like one who hasn't got a friend
Like somebody with a broken heart that is never gonna mend..
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perfectly describes that blank aimlessness you feel when you're completely alone in dealing with something that is totally weighing you down.
also perfectly describes those private moments where you try to deal with the things bothering you, on your own -- which almost always winds up being sessions of dwelling on the past and looking at old photos & mementos, wondering what the fuck you did wrong.
and finally, it ends where it begins. which, if you read into that, describes the feeling of loss in a nutshell; an unending circle of emotional double-takes, i guess you'd call it.
an emotional double-take: waking up and wanting to tell your best friend something...so you pick up the phone, press the first digit of his/her phone number, and then as you wake up fully, reality slaps you in the face as you remember that you can't call, because that person isn't in your life anymore.<p><b><i>Edited by delial on May 28 2008, at 01:57AM</i></b></p>
The lyrics are so sad, yet the music is oddly jaunty, and the ending? Doesn't fit, but nice and fun anyway.
totally agree with delial. The first of Montreal song I've heard and easily my favorite. When I came upon this song I had just lost two best friends of mine, and I can tell you this song completely describes how you feel when you loose something important to you. Either it be a friend, a pet, family, or a lover, that is how you feel pretty much. Everyone seems to have it so easy and it seems so unfair. You spend time just thinking it over again and again. You feel so alone, and you wonder why no one is there to help you or tell you everything is going to be ok. However, as the end of the song shows, things do get better. You turn the key in your door and you step out to face the sun, then you think 'you know, things aren't that bad'.
I personally think the ending is really sad. Like, this guy pours out his heart about how he feels, but in the end the world just goes on being happy without him.
the saddest thing ever... everyone know this...
It sounds like someone who is depressed, nothing more. It's TEMPORARY blue, not a lasting state of mind. Spring is one the way; girls in short shorts and bikini tops will be flooding the clubs and beaches; more great music will be released; and life will once again be on the upswing!