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"
now that all this smoke is clearing,
the plan has been destroyed
and I'm back here,
in puddles of what was my moon light,
the only thing that kept me safe from tears,
and pictures of you race through my head,
and now it's time for me to go back home,
in my head, I'm left alone.
and now that we're over this hill,
these arguements will all be gone again
the eyes I love see through you,
and telling me this bridge is broken,
won't help me not to hurt when I see you
and nothing will grow here again,
and now this is the end of something
that made me smile lightning bolts inside,
and tears are not enough to heal this,
my heart will reconnect inside my mind,
but in my chest theres hollow holes now,
and never will I feel the same again,
these empty holes have dried me out
and now that we're over this hill,
these arguements will all be gone again
the eyes I love see through you,
and telling me this bridge is broken,
won't help me not to hurt when I see you
and nothing will grow here again,
take my heart and keep it with you
I'll never know another love again
these days I spent with you are telling
the story of a broken hearted kid
and all my life I've never noticed
the rotten taste of heart ache now I know
what it is, and who it's for
and now that we're over this hill,
these arguements will all be gone again
the eyes I love see through you,
and telling me this bridge is broken,
won't help me not to hurt when I see you
and nothing will grow here again
the plan has been destroyed
and I'm back here,
in puddles of what was my moon light,
the only thing that kept me safe from tears,
and pictures of you race through my head,
and now it's time for me to go back home,
in my head, I'm left alone.
and now that we're over this hill,
these arguements will all be gone again
the eyes I love see through you,
and telling me this bridge is broken,
won't help me not to hurt when I see you
and nothing will grow here again,
and now this is the end of something
that made me smile lightning bolts inside,
and tears are not enough to heal this,
my heart will reconnect inside my mind,
but in my chest theres hollow holes now,
and never will I feel the same again,
these empty holes have dried me out
and now that we're over this hill,
these arguements will all be gone again
the eyes I love see through you,
and telling me this bridge is broken,
won't help me not to hurt when I see you
and nothing will grow here again,
take my heart and keep it with you
I'll never know another love again
these days I spent with you are telling
the story of a broken hearted kid
and all my life I've never noticed
the rotten taste of heart ache now I know
what it is, and who it's for
and now that we're over this hill,
these arguements will all be gone again
the eyes I love see through you,
and telling me this bridge is broken,
won't help me not to hurt when I see you
and nothing will grow here again
Lyrics submitted by Ken Braley
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I first heard this song off of a Drive-Thru/Little League sampler that I got at Warped Tour, and it made me a fan of these guys. Awesome lyrics, and a kick-ass song. "...and now it's time for me to go back home, in my head, I'm left alone." Wow is right.
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