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"
We live, we die
And I don't know the reasons we ask why
We hate, we push
Recent tests show we're all misunderstood, yeah
Come on now, something's seizing
You know you lost your mind
You know we all need saving
She found you late last night
You feel the madness gaining
You know you just can't win
You know this, you know this, you know this
But I'm just so tired of waking up on the ground
I, well, I never knew the girl
Well, and I never knew the world hurt, I
I, and I
I, well, I never knew the girl
We beg, we pray
But everything still happens anyway, yeah
Come on now, something's teasing
Your conscience can't decide
She kept your will from caving
But left you paranoid
You feel the constant straining
She reappears divine
You noticed, you noticed, you noticed
But I'm just so tired of waking up all alone
I, well, I never knew the girl
Well, and I never knew the world hurt, I
I, and I
I
Hey, hey, hey, I, oh
And I, I'm just so tired of waking up on the ground
I, well, I never knew the girl
Well, and I never knew the world hurt, I
I, and I
I, well, I never knew the girl
Well, and I never knew the world hurt, I
I, and I
And I don't know the reasons we ask why
We hate, we push
Recent tests show we're all misunderstood, yeah
Come on now, something's seizing
You know you lost your mind
You know we all need saving
She found you late last night
You feel the madness gaining
You know you just can't win
You know this, you know this, you know this
But I'm just so tired of waking up on the ground
I, well, I never knew the girl
Well, and I never knew the world hurt, I
I, and I
I, well, I never knew the girl
We beg, we pray
But everything still happens anyway, yeah
Come on now, something's teasing
Your conscience can't decide
She kept your will from caving
But left you paranoid
You feel the constant straining
She reappears divine
You noticed, you noticed, you noticed
But I'm just so tired of waking up all alone
I, well, I never knew the girl
Well, and I never knew the world hurt, I
I, and I
I
Hey, hey, hey, I, oh
And I, I'm just so tired of waking up on the ground
I, well, I never knew the girl
Well, and I never knew the world hurt, I
I, and I
I, well, I never knew the girl
Well, and I never knew the world hurt, I
I, and I
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This song, I believe, is the finest song I have ever heard. It reminds me of a girl I liked, but never really knew her well. And the world is a savage place, but not realizing it at all until you find out that all is not fair and good. This song could also be about the fact that a girl, once was lost, but found you. A person you never knew was around you.
Gaurdian angels, the only thing I can think of when I listen to this song. "She stopped your will from caving, but left you paranoid" I don't think an actual person can do that.
"You know we all need saving " my fav part of the whole song. totally true.
My favorite is the first verse. I half agree with Bipolar. I think that some people depend on or love someone so much that, that is the only thing they live for at times. Not wise when they break your heart though.
i think that its about a girl.. but shes an angel.. just like he said he never knew her.
yes. an angel! "she reappears divine." right!
i think it is about an angel, it says that "i'm just so tired of waking up all alone" he probably misses being with somebody, and he's hurt by people being mean and cruel, his 'guardian angel' tried to help him out maybe, but it didn't work.
this is my favorite song by our lady peace.
I love Our Lady Peace.
Some one once told me if everyone in the world had a theme song this would be mine. I take that as a compliment.
It is one of my favorite songs by OLP, It is about how the world is far from prefect, but there is hope is out there. But why would this song be about a guardian angel, because the lyric "we beg, we pray but everything still happens anyway" seems to suggest that God doe'snt answer our prays, and yet the lyric "she appears divine" does suggest that god is there somehow, through the girl. A bit confusing, but still a very awesome song.
The idea of the girl being an angel is beautiful, but Drops is right about the "everything still happens anyway". I think the idea is that it's a normal girl but he is so deeply in love with her that he sees her as an angel, divine. Maybe he messed up his chances with her, which leads to his sort of bitter perspective about God not really caring.