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"
Stop the world...
Living life in the fast lane
No time to feel any pain
The way you we're brought up
Left you so stuck up
Now all you are is just one big fuck up
The liars, beggars, pushers, and thieves
Never give you what you really need
And it's only now that you just find out
All they want to do is make you bleed
Where�d it all go
What's it all means
How�d I end up here
So far in between
Where am I going
Where have I been
What is the circumstance
Of living here
You drive yourself nuts
Trying to figure this out
Finding the answer
To what life�s about
But the more that you ask
The less that you see
We�re all part of this
One giant hypocrisy
And the bible blows
And the audience grows
Fall to their knees
They worship greed
And the TV plays
It�s Simon says
Can I make this clear
Get me the fuck out of here
Stop the world
I want to get off
I can�t take this bullshit
It stinks so bad
It�s making me cough
This place is a fucking hell
I�m so tired of the bullshit smell
Mess with me
I�m bound to get tough
Stop the world
I want to get off
Everyday is like a sentence
A convicted criminal doing penance
Before our sins, theirs now repentance
You are the sorcerers apprentice
The living cried for the dying
And yes there is no denying
And whoever we call
Is gonna save us all
Instead we find
That their lying
And the bible blows
And the audience grows
Fall to their knees
They worship greed
And the TV plays
It�s Simon says
Can I make this clear
Get me the fuck out of here
Stop the world
I want to get off
I can�t take this bullshit
It stinks so bad
It�s making me cough
This place is a fucking hell
I�m so tired of the bullshit smell
Mess with me
I�m bound to get tough
Stop the world
I want to get off
I wanna tell you
That it�s gonna be fine
People like me
Say it all the time
But the truth is
You gotta live smart
Stick up for yourself
Take it to the heart
And the bible blows
And the audience grows
Fall to their knees
They worship greed
And the TV plays
It�s Simon says
Can I make this clear
Get me the fuck out of here
Stop the world
I want to get off
I can�t take this bullshit
It stinks so bad
It�s making me cough
This place is a fucking hell
I�m so tired of the bullshit smells
Mess with me
I�m bound to get tough
Stop the world
I want to get off
Stop the world (x8)
Living life in the fast lane
No time to feel any pain
The way you we're brought up
Left you so stuck up
Now all you are is just one big fuck up
The liars, beggars, pushers, and thieves
Never give you what you really need
And it's only now that you just find out
All they want to do is make you bleed
Where�d it all go
What's it all means
How�d I end up here
So far in between
Where am I going
Where have I been
What is the circumstance
Of living here
You drive yourself nuts
Trying to figure this out
Finding the answer
To what life�s about
But the more that you ask
The less that you see
We�re all part of this
One giant hypocrisy
And the bible blows
And the audience grows
Fall to their knees
They worship greed
And the TV plays
It�s Simon says
Can I make this clear
Get me the fuck out of here
Stop the world
I want to get off
I can�t take this bullshit
It stinks so bad
It�s making me cough
This place is a fucking hell
I�m so tired of the bullshit smell
Mess with me
I�m bound to get tough
Stop the world
I want to get off
Everyday is like a sentence
A convicted criminal doing penance
Before our sins, theirs now repentance
You are the sorcerers apprentice
The living cried for the dying
And yes there is no denying
And whoever we call
Is gonna save us all
Instead we find
That their lying
And the bible blows
And the audience grows
Fall to their knees
They worship greed
And the TV plays
It�s Simon says
Can I make this clear
Get me the fuck out of here
Stop the world
I want to get off
I can�t take this bullshit
It stinks so bad
It�s making me cough
This place is a fucking hell
I�m so tired of the bullshit smell
Mess with me
I�m bound to get tough
Stop the world
I want to get off
I wanna tell you
That it�s gonna be fine
People like me
Say it all the time
But the truth is
You gotta live smart
Stick up for yourself
Take it to the heart
And the bible blows
And the audience grows
Fall to their knees
They worship greed
And the TV plays
It�s Simon says
Can I make this clear
Get me the fuck out of here
Stop the world
I want to get off
I can�t take this bullshit
It stinks so bad
It�s making me cough
This place is a fucking hell
I�m so tired of the bullshit smells
Mess with me
I�m bound to get tough
Stop the world
I want to get off
Stop the world (x8)
Lyrics submitted by EmbryoSystem
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