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"
Hey mom, why didn't you tell me?
Why didn't you teach me a thing or two?
You just let me go out into the world
You never thought to share what you knew
So I walked under a bus
I got hit by a train
Keep falling in love
Which is kind of the same
I've sunk out at sea, crashed my car, gone insane
And I felt so good
I wanna do it again
Hey mom, why didn't you warn me?
'Cause I found boys were something I should have known
They're like chocolate cake, like cigarettes
I know they're bad for me but I just can't leave 'em alone
So I walked under a bus (hey, yeah)
I got hit by a train
Keep falling in love
Which is kind of the same
I've sunk out at sea, crashed my car, gone insane
And I felt so good
I wanna do it again
(Yeah, I walked) Under a bus
I got hit by a train (yeah)
It felt so good (so good)
I wanna do it again
I wanna do it again
I wanna do it again (hey, yeah, yeah)
Oh, baby, I'm so good
Yeah-yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah
Hey mom, since we're talking
What was it like when you were young?
Has the world changed, or is it still the same?
A man can kill and still be the sweetest fun
I walked under a bus
I got hit by a train
Keep falling in love
Which is kind of the same
I've sunk out at sea, crashed my car, gone insane
And I felt so good
I wanna do it again
Under a bus
I got hit by a train
Keep falling in love
Which is kind of the same
I've sunk out at sea, crashed my car, gone insane
And I felt so good
I wanna do it again
Under a bus
I got hit by a train
And I felt so good
I wanna do it again
Why didn't you teach me a thing or two?
You just let me go out into the world
You never thought to share what you knew
So I walked under a bus
I got hit by a train
Keep falling in love
Which is kind of the same
I've sunk out at sea, crashed my car, gone insane
And I felt so good
I wanna do it again
Hey mom, why didn't you warn me?
'Cause I found boys were something I should have known
They're like chocolate cake, like cigarettes
I know they're bad for me but I just can't leave 'em alone
So I walked under a bus (hey, yeah)
I got hit by a train
Keep falling in love
Which is kind of the same
I've sunk out at sea, crashed my car, gone insane
And I felt so good
I wanna do it again
(Yeah, I walked) Under a bus
I got hit by a train (yeah)
It felt so good (so good)
I wanna do it again
I wanna do it again
I wanna do it again (hey, yeah, yeah)
Oh, baby, I'm so good
Yeah-yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah
Hey mom, since we're talking
What was it like when you were young?
Has the world changed, or is it still the same?
A man can kill and still be the sweetest fun
I walked under a bus
I got hit by a train
Keep falling in love
Which is kind of the same
I've sunk out at sea, crashed my car, gone insane
And I felt so good
I wanna do it again
Under a bus
I got hit by a train
Keep falling in love
Which is kind of the same
I've sunk out at sea, crashed my car, gone insane
And I felt so good
I wanna do it again
Under a bus
I got hit by a train
And I felt so good
I wanna do it again
Lyrics submitted by urbanroadster, edited by IchigoAmu
Buses and Trains Lyrics as written by James Roche
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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