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"
Watching the days slip by so fast
Knowing our fate has long been cast
Working our fingers to the bone
'Cause nobody loves you when you're gone, gone, gone, gone
Coughing up feeling just for you
To find something real to hold on to
But there is a hole inside my heart
Where all of my love comes pouring out
You know you'll always be my man
But grab yourself sweetness where you can
'Cause sooner or later we're gonna die
Left to the dogs under the sky
(Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da)
(Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da)
(I cracked a piece of broken glass)
(I cracked a piece of broken glass)
Coughing up feeling just for you
To find something real to hold on to
But there is a hole inside my heart
Where waves of my love come tumbling out
You say that all the good is gone
That I have forgotten who I am
Free as a bird
Wild as the wind
But somehow I cannot let you in
(Someone real)
(Someone real)
(Someone real)
(Someone real)
(Leaving me for someone real)
(For someone real)
(For someone real)
(Leaving me in here)
(Leaving me in here)
(Leaving me in here)
(Leaving me in here)
Knowing our fate has long been cast
Working our fingers to the bone
'Cause nobody loves you when you're gone, gone, gone, gone
Coughing up feeling just for you
To find something real to hold on to
But there is a hole inside my heart
Where all of my love comes pouring out
You know you'll always be my man
But grab yourself sweetness where you can
'Cause sooner or later we're gonna die
Left to the dogs under the sky
(Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da)
(Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da)
(I cracked a piece of broken glass)
(I cracked a piece of broken glass)
Coughing up feeling just for you
To find something real to hold on to
But there is a hole inside my heart
Where waves of my love come tumbling out
You say that all the good is gone
That I have forgotten who I am
Free as a bird
Wild as the wind
But somehow I cannot let you in
(Someone real)
(Someone real)
(Someone real)
(Someone real)
(Leaving me for someone real)
(For someone real)
(For someone real)
(Leaving me in here)
(Leaving me in here)
(Leaving me in here)
(Leaving me in here)
Lyrics submitted by Metal6Hell6Maker6, edited by ShhImMivi, s0ngfly
Nobody Loves You Lyrics as written by Shirley Ann Manson Douglas Elwin Erickson
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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Why are the lyrics up for this song that of 'Parade' now? Erm...
I know I submitted corrections, and it looks like others have too. I guess they have their heart set on this being Parade now... smh
One of my favourites.
Don't know whether you're still reading but I'm fairly sure it's "I'm sorry" and "Please leave me be" continuously
Anyway. Haunting song and a desperate tale of love and despair
brilliant song. pretty self explanatory, but nonetheless brilliant.
These should be right:
Watching the days slip by so fast Knowing our fate has long been cast Working our fingers to the bone Cause nobody loves you when you're gone
Coughing up feeling just for you To find something real to hold on to But there is a hole inside my heart Where all of my love comes pouring out.
You know you'll always be my man But grab yourself sweetness where you can Cause sooner or later we're going to die Left to the dogs under the sky
I cracked a piece of broken glass
Coughing up feeling just for you To find something real to hold on to But there is a hole inside my heart Where waves of my love come tumbling out. You say that all the good is gone That I have forgotten who I am Free as a bird Wild as the wind But somehow I cannot let you in
hmm i wonder what hse says at the end of this song if anyone knows plaese post it!
@Begging Bone It sounds like she may be say pretty please, the story or its yours. That's just a few things that I think it could possibly be.
not exactly sure, but to me it sounds like "bleed and feel" or "bleed and heal" shrug
This is a beautiful song. Probably one of the best G songs ever . It's great to listen to it when I'm really, really depressed........