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"
Yesterday I called you up
Instead of a date I got turned down
It's been a while and nothing new
A hard time searching for that true
And never ending love
It's time I gave it up
No time for me to be a teenager
These games are not worth going back there for
I'm out of broken hearts to give to you
I guess I'll save them all for someone new
Opportunity exists
You're taking advantage of the risk
This next journey starts alone
Till I get her I'll be gone and away
You won't hear from me
No time for me to be a teenager
These games are not worth going back there for
I'm out of broken hearts to give to you
I guess I'll save them all for someone new
No time for me to be a teen
No time for me to be a teenager
Instead of a date I got turned down
It's been a while and nothing new
A hard time searching for that true
And never ending love
It's time I gave it up
No time for me to be a teenager
These games are not worth going back there for
I'm out of broken hearts to give to you
I guess I'll save them all for someone new
Opportunity exists
You're taking advantage of the risk
This next journey starts alone
Till I get her I'll be gone and away
You won't hear from me
No time for me to be a teenager
These games are not worth going back there for
I'm out of broken hearts to give to you
I guess I'll save them all for someone new
No time for me to be a teen
No time for me to be a teenager
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i think it means that, he spends all his time searching for his one true love,instead of spending time doing teenage stuff. like hanging out with friends and stuff.
in other words he puts his feelings ahead of his own life. looking/finding that certain someone. either way another good useless ID song
It's a song about ending a relationship and trying to bounce back. He thought the girl he was going out with was the one, but she wasnt and now he is searching for his real true love. get the video off of kungfurecords.com. It's got some good useless ID live footage
This is a pretty sweet song lyric that I just saw for the first time... besides what choda boy says, which I agree with, I'd like to add that the line "I'm out of broken hearts to give you" gives the sense that this girl has picked him up and dropped him more than once, which has recently happened to me. This lyric is describing pain like nothing else -- the writer has found the one he truely loves, just to be dumped and dumped again to the point that he knows it's futile to try again. He has given up hope on his love, and looking for hope once again in "someone new", someone who he doesn't truely expect himself to love like he loves the one he's with.
This song is a killer song. It can fit so many situations. The video for this isn't that good. They shouldn't make videos. They kick ass tho. Punk On!
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this song is about a guy(like me) try to move on and forget about the stupid pass and mistakes and opportunities that he missed. I have stop being a teenager for a while now.....
wow...you would think that a band from israel might have a little more to say than this fucking "boohoo i have a broken heart" horseshit.
They do. Listen to "State of Fear"