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"
stay on the charming side of drunk
and leave without saying goodbye
sometimes i'm sentimental
if you know what i mean.
i can't stand the music
but i love the scene
we will always find ourselves in bars,
where it's always back to the tarot cards.
doing foolish things just to see
what change would bring.
no one's ever looking where they're going
no one's ever stepping aside
doing foolish things just to see
what change would bring.
you've had too many lovers and not enough friends,
i said to myself looking around the room.
i've had too many drinks and not enough dinner.
time to go soon.
every foolish thing i never tried.
every foolish thing i've called mine.
with age comes decadence, look here it comes.
doing foolish things just to see
what change would bring.
i gotta stay on the charming side of drunk
and leave without saying goodbye
if you don't want to go right now
well bye bye baby bye bye.
i wanted trouble, got it.
trying to move elegant
feeling so beat up.
doing foolish things just to see
what change would bring
every foolish thing i never tried.
every foolish thing i've called mine.
i'm staying on the charming side of drunk
and leaving without saying goodbye.
and leave without saying goodbye
sometimes i'm sentimental
if you know what i mean.
i can't stand the music
but i love the scene
we will always find ourselves in bars,
where it's always back to the tarot cards.
doing foolish things just to see
what change would bring.
no one's ever looking where they're going
no one's ever stepping aside
doing foolish things just to see
what change would bring.
you've had too many lovers and not enough friends,
i said to myself looking around the room.
i've had too many drinks and not enough dinner.
time to go soon.
every foolish thing i never tried.
every foolish thing i've called mine.
with age comes decadence, look here it comes.
doing foolish things just to see
what change would bring.
i gotta stay on the charming side of drunk
and leave without saying goodbye
if you don't want to go right now
well bye bye baby bye bye.
i wanted trouble, got it.
trying to move elegant
feeling so beat up.
doing foolish things just to see
what change would bring
every foolish thing i never tried.
every foolish thing i've called mine.
i'm staying on the charming side of drunk
and leaving without saying goodbye.
Lyrics submitted by ruben
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this is prolly my favorite song on 'just the best party.' sorta salsa beat, very very nice. oh, yeah... the lyrics are about drinking too much... sort of out of boredom. there ya go.
I get a little different message from this song... It's like getting older but not taking responsibility for it. Hiding your fear and your anger behind a haze of drink, but trying to maintain that fine line between being charmingly drunk and full blown blitzed, and using that state to try and manage the woes of your life.
ruining your life just to see it happen.