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"
It's the way
People always talk about you when you're not around its the way
That I feel the second that I'm back in town
I never promised a thing
I'm walkin' alone it's gotta be this way
I haven't seen you in so long (so long so long)
I know that you're home
I think it's better when
I can see you then I'm gone
and it feels like dying it's
12 for you but it's 3 a.m. for me
Another missed call but I'm not running away
Believe me if I could I would stay
I'm walkin' alone it's gotta be this way
I haven't seen you in so long (so long so long)
I know that you're home
I think it's better when
I can see you then I'm gone
my perception is fading to blue
Yet direction is stuck on you
You can't wait
You keep on anticipating it's so irritating
Everything that I hate
this is so brand new
I'm stuck on you
It seems I'm lying
I try not to try
But the days go by so slow you're
walkin' alone its gotta be this way
I haven't seen you in so long (so long so long)
I know that you're home
I think its better when
I can see you then I'm gone
I'm walkin' alone it's gotta be this way
I haven't seen you in so long (so long so long)
I know that you're home
I think it's better when
I can see you then I'm gone
and I'm walkin' away from you
Maybe something way too soon
And I'm walkin' away from you
This is something so brand new
People always talk about you when you're not around its the way
That I feel the second that I'm back in town
I never promised a thing
I'm walkin' alone it's gotta be this way
I haven't seen you in so long (so long so long)
I know that you're home
I think it's better when
I can see you then I'm gone
and it feels like dying it's
12 for you but it's 3 a.m. for me
Another missed call but I'm not running away
Believe me if I could I would stay
I'm walkin' alone it's gotta be this way
I haven't seen you in so long (so long so long)
I know that you're home
I think it's better when
I can see you then I'm gone
my perception is fading to blue
Yet direction is stuck on you
You can't wait
You keep on anticipating it's so irritating
Everything that I hate
this is so brand new
I'm stuck on you
It seems I'm lying
I try not to try
But the days go by so slow you're
walkin' alone its gotta be this way
I haven't seen you in so long (so long so long)
I know that you're home
I think its better when
I can see you then I'm gone
I'm walkin' alone it's gotta be this way
I haven't seen you in so long (so long so long)
I know that you're home
I think it's better when
I can see you then I'm gone
and I'm walkin' away from you
Maybe something way too soon
And I'm walkin' away from you
This is something so brand new
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haha! this is such a good song! never heard of it is an awesome band! oi ! i wish i could find more lyrics by them!
nhoi rules! i have more of thier lyrics..ill try to post them on here tomorrow..im too tired to right now.
omg thanks that would be so cool!
These guys rule.. Whenever I hear this song it gets totally stuck in my head, especially "she's always talking in her sleep".. It rules :)
i really like this band. i saw them perform at a skate park in pompano fla. i have no clue what they were doing here... they from cali. i'm trying to ge the lyrics of veronica and where am i. does anyone know the tabs to the tequila song???
Eek, I met a few of these guys at Warped Tour. They tried to sell us their CD and we asked if it was free and then one of 'em gave us free stickers and called us moochers, ^_^. I think it was Johnny or Jeff.. Ah. This song is cool. I'm so pointless.
Oh, what, now you just download their stuff so you don't have to support them? nice.
Because of course, it's a now known fact that I probably didn't order the CD offline where they would get more money anyway, right? I should find out how people learn these things..
i love this song so much. my friend makes fun of me that it's my song because i talk constantly in my sleep :)
i love this song so much. my friend makes fun of me that it's my song because i talk constantly in my sleep :)