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 thought it was
The only time
You could say to me that this feels right
Leave me out
Leave me out
Leave me out
Leave me out
I fear the worst
I've missed my chance
You've been and gone and took my heart
All my love
All my love
All my love
All my love
Not strong enough
I might just break
'Cos I wanted you, make no mistake
Where I fall
Where I fall
Where I fall
Where I fall
Please don't look at me
I'm in such a mess
I will beat your love out of my chest
I just want peace
I just want peace
I just want peace
I just want peace and quiet in my head
I can't find it in the bars or in my bed
If you like I'll take your number from my phone
And lock the doors and turn the lights off in my home.
The only time
You could say to me that this feels right
Leave me out
Leave me out
Leave me out
Leave me out
I fear the worst
I've missed my chance
You've been and gone and took my heart
All my love
All my love
All my love
All my love
Not strong enough
I might just break
'Cos I wanted you, make no mistake
Where I fall
Where I fall
Where I fall
Where I fall
Please don't look at me
I'm in such a mess
I will beat your love out of my chest
I just want peace
I just want peace
I just want peace
I just want peace and quiet in my head
I can't find it in the bars or in my bed
If you like I'll take your number from my phone
And lock the doors and turn the lights off in my home.
Lyrics submitted by kid galahad
Where I Fall Lyrics as written by Gary Lightbody
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song is so beautiful. I think Snow Patrol are like GODS ON EARTH but in all of their albums i was looking for a song just like this one and i think it's so amazing. It gets me where Gary Lightbody sings 'you've been and gone and took my heart' and you can hear the Irish tinge in his voice. the whole song just makes me feel all lovely and feel so sorry for him about whatever the woman he's written the song for has done to him.
the lines:
Please dont look at me I'm in such a mess I will beat your love out of my chest
sum up the angry feeling of being hurt after a bad relationship.
excellent.
..shit.
Sofia already picked out the best lyrics in the song. I relate to them so damn much. Wow.
Those lines are indeed amazingly describing the feeling of being hurt by someone you still love
Beatiful and depressing at the same time..