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'm sick of smiling
and so is my jaw
can't you see my front is crumbling down
i'm sick of being someone i'm not
please get me out of this slump
i'm sick of clapping
when i know i can do it better for myself
i'm sick of waiting
sick of all these words that will never matter
i'll wire these nerves together
hoping for a chance to think on time
and i'm tracing over your letter
to see if your intentions are as good as mine
but you're
getting worse
i swear it
its hard to prove you're an understatement
you're getting worse
and i know
that you'll be calling
calling, calling me again
i'm done with everything
that had the two of you
don't worry your pictures are already burned
i'm done with new friends
don't sell yourself short
you'll lose it in the end
i'll wire these nerves together
hoping for a chance to think on time
and i'm tracing over your letter
to see if your intentions are as good as mine
but you're
getting worse
i swear it
its hard to prove you're an understatement
you're getting worse
and i know
that you'll be calling
calling, calling me again
i can't help how i feel
no i can't help how i feel
but you're
getting worse
i swear it
its hard to prove you're an understatement
you're getting worse
and i know
that you'll be calling
calling, calling me again
calling me again
calling me again
but you're
getting worse
i swear it
its hard to prove you're an understatement
you're getting worse
and i know
that you'll be calling
calling, calling me again
and so is my jaw
can't you see my front is crumbling down
i'm sick of being someone i'm not
please get me out of this slump
i'm sick of clapping
when i know i can do it better for myself
i'm sick of waiting
sick of all these words that will never matter
i'll wire these nerves together
hoping for a chance to think on time
and i'm tracing over your letter
to see if your intentions are as good as mine
but you're
getting worse
i swear it
its hard to prove you're an understatement
you're getting worse
and i know
that you'll be calling
calling, calling me again
i'm done with everything
that had the two of you
don't worry your pictures are already burned
i'm done with new friends
don't sell yourself short
you'll lose it in the end
i'll wire these nerves together
hoping for a chance to think on time
and i'm tracing over your letter
to see if your intentions are as good as mine
but you're
getting worse
i swear it
its hard to prove you're an understatement
you're getting worse
and i know
that you'll be calling
calling, calling me again
i can't help how i feel
no i can't help how i feel
but you're
getting worse
i swear it
its hard to prove you're an understatement
you're getting worse
and i know
that you'll be calling
calling, calling me again
calling me again
calling me again
but you're
getting worse
i swear it
its hard to prove you're an understatement
you're getting worse
and i know
that you'll be calling
calling, calling me again
Lyrics submitted by Alucard
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it isnt like you win a million dollars for typing up the lyrics. people just moved the lyrics to the correct group name coz the band is no longer named "a new found glory" . they were only helping.