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 a cinch to pass the time with you,
But hard to pass the time alone,
Can you take it?
And it's true,
True, the couple next to you
Think you look strange.
Alone, what are your aims,
Or do you have any?
Avoid confusion.
You always know,
Always know how much your paying.
I concentrate on,
On, what the people say,
The couple next to me.
Pass the salt, pour it in my wounds.
It looks like you have no friends,
Can't keep up with the new trends.
Sorry, sorry, for myself I don't agree.
No, I always go out eating with my best friends.
It's less than normal.
Avoid confusion.
You always know,
Always know how much your paying.
I concentrate on,
On, what the people say,
The couple next to me.
Avoid confusion.
You always know,
Always know how much your paying.
I concentrate on,
On, what the people say.
I think at times.
But hard to pass the time alone,
Can you take it?
And it's true,
True, the couple next to you
Think you look strange.
Alone, what are your aims,
Or do you have any?
Avoid confusion.
You always know,
Always know how much your paying.
I concentrate on,
On, what the people say,
The couple next to me.
Pass the salt, pour it in my wounds.
It looks like you have no friends,
Can't keep up with the new trends.
Sorry, sorry, for myself I don't agree.
No, I always go out eating with my best friends.
It's less than normal.
Avoid confusion.
You always know,
Always know how much your paying.
I concentrate on,
On, what the people say,
The couple next to me.
Avoid confusion.
You always know,
Always know how much your paying.
I concentrate on,
On, what the people say.
I think at times.
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
Dine Alone Lyrics as written by Sergio Vega Alan Cage
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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yeah, i think its pretty simply about dining alone
This seems to be a song about knowing yourself, and your friends. Being yourself, without the need of a friend around. Knowing exactly what you are getting in life. "always know how much your paying."
Just like a7s9k said I believe this song talks about the anxiety of a person when he thinks about what society expects from him.
Versusthesea said that this song might be "pretty simply about dining alone". I respectfully disagree. I disagree because we must ask ourselves why would someone write a song about dining alone if it's not that big a thing. That's what leads me to think that this dining alone in public scene is a concretization of a situation which could reveal much more about our relationships with strangers. In that regard, I think that the protagonist of this song puts way too much attention to those around him, feeling himself observed and looked down because of him being alone. He gets even to the point of coming up with an internal dialogue to justify his lack of friends.
In fact, I believe that the "Me" and the "You" in this song are the same person: He is talking to himself questioning even whether if he has aims in life or not.
This song rocks. He's talking about going out to eat with a girl, and trying to ignore the comments people are making about her. Of course, there's probably some ambiguous meaning that I didn't pick up.
it looks to me like he could be talking about taking a prostitute out. but i'm probaby totally wrong.
Uh, or maybe...just maybe, he's talking about, well, I don't know, the awkward social anomalies associated with dining alone perchance? I'm rather baffled as to what could ever sport the notion of this being about a dinner date with a girl slash prostitute. Honestly, you'll have to dig your fingers pretty deep into the lyric sheet to be able to pull out some deeper sense of ambiguity beyond the paint that drapes the canvas.