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"
I woke up and called this morning
The tone of your voice was a warning
That you don't care for me anymore
I made up the bed we sleep in
I looked at the clock when you creep in
It's 6 AM and I'm alone
Did you know when you go it's the perfect ending
To the bad day I was just beginning
When you go, all I know is you're my favorite mistake
Your friends are sorry for me
They watch you pretend to adore me
But I am no fool to this game
Now here comes your secret lover
She'll be unlike any other
Until your guilt goes up in flames
Did you know when you go it's the perfect ending
To the bad day I'd gotten used to spending
When you go, all I know is you're my favorite mistake
You're my favorite mistake
Well maybe nothing lasts forever
Even when you stay together
I don't need forever after, but it's your laughter won't let me go
So I'm holding on this way
Did you know could you tell you were the only one
That I ever loved?
Now everything's so wrong
Did you see me walking by, did it ever make you cry?
Now you're my favorite mistake
Yeah you're my favorite mistake
You're my favorite mistake
The tone of your voice was a warning
That you don't care for me anymore
I made up the bed we sleep in
I looked at the clock when you creep in
It's 6 AM and I'm alone
Did you know when you go it's the perfect ending
To the bad day I was just beginning
When you go, all I know is you're my favorite mistake
Your friends are sorry for me
They watch you pretend to adore me
But I am no fool to this game
Now here comes your secret lover
She'll be unlike any other
Until your guilt goes up in flames
Did you know when you go it's the perfect ending
To the bad day I'd gotten used to spending
When you go, all I know is you're my favorite mistake
You're my favorite mistake
Well maybe nothing lasts forever
Even when you stay together
I don't need forever after, but it's your laughter won't let me go
So I'm holding on this way
Did you know could you tell you were the only one
That I ever loved?
Now everything's so wrong
Did you see me walking by, did it ever make you cry?
Now you're my favorite mistake
Yeah you're my favorite mistake
You're my favorite mistake
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar
My Favorite Mistake Lyrics as written by Sheryl Crow Jeff Trott
Lyrics © Anthem Entertainment, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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my favorite mistake isn't the same circumstances as this song, but he's still my favorite.
Its a relationship that was a mistake, but you would do it all over again. Because although they could miss the bad parts...they would miss the good parts, too.
I can relate..
So this song is about her relationship with Eric Clapton - weird, huh? Atleast that's what I've heard. She wrote it after they broke up.
I think that everyone in their life has a favorite mistake, I know I do. We had an amazing time together, but in the end I knew that it was all a mistake. We had a wonderful time together, and I think that I was actually in love with him at the time...but it's all gone now - I guess I miss him. sigh I haven't had a decent relationship since then. I'm so pathetic
wow...I totally repeated myself there...amazing, wonderful...it all means the same thing. I must be dumb. But honestly, that's how I feel...I just had to repeat myself because I can't read. Ugh...
i love the words to this song. i guess i've had several favourite mistakes in my life so far. i guess it's about loving someone but knowing they don't love you back. yet you keep going back to that person and being used by them. oh dear....
I love those 'favourite mistakes' in my life. Even though I might look back now and say "never again" they were fun while they lasted. No regrets!
I have one favorite mistake but just recently she's turned into a real bitch. Not to me but to others. After telling other people what I thought they all said "didn't you know?" I just never saw the selfish and jealous side of her personality until we stopped dating and I stopped liking her. It's a shame because I have a few great memories of her and now they're tainted by her actions of the past few weeks. I try to remember the good times and how I felt and I know that it was a mistake, but of all the mistakes I've made, she's my favourite.
I just like this song. I can't really relate right now, but I like it.
I love this song. One of my ex's sent the lyrics to me when we broke up. There was like an unspoken happiness/sadness to the whole deal.
sheryl crow is so talented. she has a great voice, good writing, and is good at guitar. shes been around for a long time, and her music never relaly gets old, kuz its not trendy stuff, its just flat out good. this is one of my favorite songs by her. has been for years.