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 was building a bridge
to the life i used to live,
and you wanted me to go home with you instead.
Now that I've finally figured what I wanted all these years,
baby I am happy where i lay my head.
Do yourself up right
Let me take yo out tonight.
Cause baby I'm tellin you.
I've been thinking, I've been drinking
long enough to know,
not to let my feelings show.
I'm passed out most of these days,
so sick of my slacker ways,
that i think its time you knew.
If I bought you flowers,
could i stare at you for hours?
Cause baby, I'm your biggest fan.
I've been hooked on you from the start,
and you know you hold my heart
everytime i hold your hand.
Drink up to good times
Give me a reason to find, tonight
Well this ain't right of you.
I've been thinking, I've been drinking
long enough to know,
not to let my feelings show.
I'm passed out most of these days,
so sick of my slacker ways,
that i think its time you knew.
Do yourself up right (x4)
I've been thinking, I've been drinking
long enough to know,
not to let my feelings show.
I'm passed out most of these days,
so sick of my slacker ways.
I'm passed out most of these days,
so sick of my slacker ways
I've been thinking, I've been drinking
long enough to know
(I'm passed out most of these days,
so sick of my slacker ways)
I've been thinking, I've been drinking
long enough to know
(I'm passed out most of these days,
so sick of my slacker ways)
I've been thinking, I've been drinking
long enough to know.
to the life i used to live,
and you wanted me to go home with you instead.
Now that I've finally figured what I wanted all these years,
baby I am happy where i lay my head.
Do yourself up right
Let me take yo out tonight.
Cause baby I'm tellin you.
I've been thinking, I've been drinking
long enough to know,
not to let my feelings show.
I'm passed out most of these days,
so sick of my slacker ways,
that i think its time you knew.
If I bought you flowers,
could i stare at you for hours?
Cause baby, I'm your biggest fan.
I've been hooked on you from the start,
and you know you hold my heart
everytime i hold your hand.
Drink up to good times
Give me a reason to find, tonight
Well this ain't right of you.
I've been thinking, I've been drinking
long enough to know,
not to let my feelings show.
I'm passed out most of these days,
so sick of my slacker ways,
that i think its time you knew.
Do yourself up right (x4)
I've been thinking, I've been drinking
long enough to know,
not to let my feelings show.
I'm passed out most of these days,
so sick of my slacker ways.
I'm passed out most of these days,
so sick of my slacker ways
I've been thinking, I've been drinking
long enough to know
(I'm passed out most of these days,
so sick of my slacker ways)
I've been thinking, I've been drinking
long enough to know
(I'm passed out most of these days,
so sick of my slacker ways)
I've been thinking, I've been drinking
long enough to know.
Lyrics submitted by riderbmx
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