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 woke up broke free, drove a long time didn't purge you from my mind
Hang up the hill maybe your right chalk it up to a starry night
To be set free to live and learn did we pass or fail the term
You wrote a note with chalk on my door, a message I'd known long before
On any given day you'll find me gone
On any given day you'll find me gone
Give me your reason, give me your rhyme
So I can tempo me to your time, so I can scratch your surface and be a deeper part of the mystery
To be undone to be alone to live life in monotone
I reach the beach and try to ignore the warning I'd known long before.
On any given day you'll find me gone
On any given day you'll find me gone
Been down to the sea, Been down to the sea
And so all of the lovers will say forever star-crossed will we stay
Still I can't help feeling castaway on any given day
Still I can't help feeling you'll run away on any given day
I window shop for you in my mind
A flannel shirt at the five and dime
A leather coat cut fixed in a style,Boots from plastic crocodile, a pine cone dipped in glitter glue
A penny 1942, a necklace with a cheap green stone,a beveied corpse and chilled to the bone
On any given day you'll fine me gone
On any given day you'll fine me gone
Been down to the sea, Been down to the sea
And all the lovers will say forever star-crossed will we stay
Still I can't help feeling cast away on any given day
Still I can't help feeling you'll run away on any given day
Lift my hands up smell to reveal your perfume on the steering wheel
You're next to me and I smile I think I'll drive on for a while
On any given day you'll find me gone.
Hang up the hill maybe your right chalk it up to a starry night
To be set free to live and learn did we pass or fail the term
You wrote a note with chalk on my door, a message I'd known long before
On any given day you'll find me gone
On any given day you'll find me gone
Give me your reason, give me your rhyme
So I can tempo me to your time, so I can scratch your surface and be a deeper part of the mystery
To be undone to be alone to live life in monotone
I reach the beach and try to ignore the warning I'd known long before.
On any given day you'll find me gone
On any given day you'll find me gone
Been down to the sea, Been down to the sea
And so all of the lovers will say forever star-crossed will we stay
Still I can't help feeling castaway on any given day
Still I can't help feeling you'll run away on any given day
I window shop for you in my mind
A flannel shirt at the five and dime
A leather coat cut fixed in a style,Boots from plastic crocodile, a pine cone dipped in glitter glue
A penny 1942, a necklace with a cheap green stone,a beveied corpse and chilled to the bone
On any given day you'll fine me gone
On any given day you'll fine me gone
Been down to the sea, Been down to the sea
And all the lovers will say forever star-crossed will we stay
Still I can't help feeling cast away on any given day
Still I can't help feeling you'll run away on any given day
Lift my hands up smell to reveal your perfume on the steering wheel
You're next to me and I smile I think I'll drive on for a while
On any given day you'll find me gone.
Lyrics submitted by myownprison333
On Any Given Day Lyrics as written by Carter Gravatt Barry Thomas Privett
Lyrics © BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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My favorite song on this album. Seen them many times live in Richmond, NOVA and at LONGWOOD!!! They're all great-- the basist is kinda rude though. (stay away from him) :)