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 kids, rock 'n' roll
That's how I lost control
Hey kids, go get high
I can't remember why
Up all night, I waste my time
I am fine, but a day behind
Up all night feelin' stupid 'n' happy
But the days are overlapping
My days are overlapping
I'd start a revolution
If I could get up in the morning
I'd start a revolution
If I could get up, get up
Start a revolution
Start a revolution
If I could get up, get up
Start a revolution
Start a revolution
If I could get up in the morning
Hey, every day is the weekend
I stay up, so I sleep in
Hey, everyday there's a reason
To just do it all over again
Up all night, I waste my time
I am fine, but a day behind
Up all night feelin' stupid 'n' happy
But the days are overlapping
My days are overlapping
I'd start a revolution
If I could get up in the morning
I'd start a revolution
If I could get up, get up
Start a revolution
Start a revolution
If I could get up, get up
Start a revolution
Start a revolution
If I could get up in the morning
If i could get up in the morning
Get up, get up, get up
Get up in the morning
Get up, get up, get up
All the things I do
that you tell me not to
Try walkin' in my shoes
But you stumble, don't you?
4-5-6 a.m.
I'm up all night again
I'd start a revolution
If I could
I'd start a revolution
If I could get up, get up
Start a revolution
Start a revolution
If I could get up in the morning
Start a revolution
Start a revolution
If I could get up in the morning
I'd start a revolution
get up in the morning
I'd start a revolution
If I could get up in the morning
I'd start a revolution
I'd start a revolution
If I could get up, get up
That's how I lost control
Hey kids, go get high
I can't remember why
Up all night, I waste my time
I am fine, but a day behind
Up all night feelin' stupid 'n' happy
But the days are overlapping
My days are overlapping
I'd start a revolution
If I could get up in the morning
I'd start a revolution
If I could get up, get up
Start a revolution
Start a revolution
If I could get up, get up
Start a revolution
Start a revolution
If I could get up in the morning
Hey, every day is the weekend
I stay up, so I sleep in
Hey, everyday there's a reason
To just do it all over again
Up all night, I waste my time
I am fine, but a day behind
Up all night feelin' stupid 'n' happy
But the days are overlapping
My days are overlapping
I'd start a revolution
If I could get up in the morning
I'd start a revolution
If I could get up, get up
Start a revolution
Start a revolution
If I could get up, get up
Start a revolution
Start a revolution
If I could get up in the morning
If i could get up in the morning
Get up, get up, get up
Get up in the morning
Get up, get up, get up
All the things I do
that you tell me not to
Try walkin' in my shoes
But you stumble, don't you?
4-5-6 a.m.
I'm up all night again
I'd start a revolution
If I could
I'd start a revolution
If I could get up, get up
Start a revolution
Start a revolution
If I could get up in the morning
Start a revolution
Start a revolution
If I could get up in the morning
I'd start a revolution
get up in the morning
I'd start a revolution
If I could get up in the morning
I'd start a revolution
I'd start a revolution
If I could get up, get up
Lyrics submitted by savageBEAST7
Revolution Lyrics as written by Aimee Allen Don Gilmore
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network
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