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"
There you are alone
With no hope of ever having
Something to be proud of
Something earned without begging
Yes, I know you're a person
A person close to me
Who do think you are?
And what more do you want from me?
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Why are you at home
Buried in your self-pity?
Why do you insist on
Living the life clean out of me?
Yes, I know you're the person
The person that took time with me
Does it give you the right to expect
Your life revolves around me?
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue!
You were my brother (where does our friendship end?)
You were my brother (where does our friendship end?)
You were my brother (where does our friendship end?)
You were my… (I'm not gonna give in)
You were my brother (where does our friendship end?)
You were my brother (where does our friendship end?)
You were my brother (where does our friendship end?)
You were my… (I'm not gonna give in)
How can you fucking doubt me? But not again (There you are alone)
How can you fucking doubt me? But not again (With no hope of ever having)
How can you fucking doubt me? But not again (Something to be proud of)
How can you fucking doubt me? But not again (Something earned without begging)
How can you fucking doubt me? But not again (Yes, I know you're a person)
How can you fucking doubt me? But not again (A person close to me)
How can you fucking doubt me? But not again (Who do think you are?
And what more do you want from me?)
How can you fucking doubt me? But not again!
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ugh!
Ugh!
Ugh!
Ugh-aah!
Ugh-aah!
With no hope of ever having
Something to be proud of
Something earned without begging
Yes, I know you're a person
A person close to me
Who do think you are?
And what more do you want from me?
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Why are you at home
Buried in your self-pity?
Why do you insist on
Living the life clean out of me?
Yes, I know you're the person
The person that took time with me
Does it give you the right to expect
Your life revolves around me?
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue!
You were my brother (where does our friendship end?)
You were my brother (where does our friendship end?)
You were my brother (where does our friendship end?)
You were my… (I'm not gonna give in)
You were my brother (where does our friendship end?)
You were my brother (where does our friendship end?)
You were my brother (where does our friendship end?)
You were my… (I'm not gonna give in)
How can you fucking doubt me? But not again (There you are alone)
How can you fucking doubt me? But not again (With no hope of ever having)
How can you fucking doubt me? But not again (Something to be proud of)
How can you fucking doubt me? But not again (Something earned without begging)
How can you fucking doubt me? But not again (Yes, I know you're a person)
How can you fucking doubt me? But not again (A person close to me)
How can you fucking doubt me? But not again (Who do think you are?
And what more do you want from me?)
How can you fucking doubt me? But not again!
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ball tongue! (Scat vocals)
Ugh!
Ugh!
Ugh!
Ugh-aah!
Ugh-aah!
Lyrics submitted by me109cito, edited by MetalheadMike
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