| All Time Low – My Only One Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'm a huge fan of All Time Low, have been for a few years, and I feel I have a sense of how Alex operates in terms of lyrics. Reading some of the other comments, I'm actually pretty positive I'm wrong lol. Nonetheless, I'll throw this out there. So, I feel like this is from the writer's point of view. It's about his relationship with a self harmer. "Paint yourself a picture/Something perfectly obscure/To hide away the messes/Behind your manicure/In all of my obsessing/To find the perfect words/Sick of second-guessing/I didn't mean to make you hurt." Is about how the self harmer acts as if nothing is wrong, and tries to be happy for the rest of the world so people aren't worried about her. And the writer knows that there's something up, and he tries and tries to help her, but in the end it's just causing her more pain. "What do say when your heart's not in it/Your heart's not in it?/What do you do when you just don't get it/You just don't get it?/Where do you go when you reach your limit/You reach your limit?/Cause all I know, all I know is/You are my only one/That's all I know" Here we see denial. The writer has been trying for so long to help her that in the end, he's thinking it's just not worth it. On the other hand, he is truly in love with her. But he is just not sure he can handle all this work and disappointment. "Break another mirror/To keep away the stares/Of another guilty reflex/A reflection left in tears" Is about her self harm. "In all of my obsessing/Tell me what was it worth/Cause I should've learned my lesson/I didn't mean to make you hurt/Didn't mean to make you hurt." The writer is always trying to make her happy, trying to make her stop hurting, but in reality it only causes more pain for her because she doesn't want him worrying about her. She believes she can handle it herself. "Wake me early/I've been dreaming/Dreaming that I'm only/Good enough for me and no one else." The writer is worried that by helping, he's really screwing it all up because it's hurting her. He's trying to decide whether he's the good guy or the bad guy. His dreams tell him he's bad, but the self harmer tells him he's good. I don't know. I'm probably wrong. But that's how I look at it. |
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