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"
Time does tell
That even if they say so
She'd be the one that would know
That I did do what I've done
And I, I wouldn't call it cheating
I'd just say I was leading her on
Why walk while I run a-way
You- you ask me what went wrong
Me- I'll write you this last song
Please- just tell me one way we can win
One- more thing before I go
Two- the one who loves me so
Three- don't make me count to three again
Happy endings
Just what did you do, If you're a dream then come true
Stop pretending
That what you mean isn't what you say
Hopeful dreaming,
Of times before the pain, wishing it was still the same
Loving, leaving
Round and round and round we go again
Walks a-lone, have often lead to thinking
My love for you is sinking to what seems an all time low
Or high, the limits' never ending,
And don't you know I'm sending
There's no venture I won't go
For you
She walks away, she talks away
She walks away
She walks away, she talks away
Away, away...
That even if they say so
She'd be the one that would know
That I did do what I've done
And I, I wouldn't call it cheating
I'd just say I was leading her on
Why walk while I run a-way
You- you ask me what went wrong
Me- I'll write you this last song
Please- just tell me one way we can win
One- more thing before I go
Two- the one who loves me so
Three- don't make me count to three again
Happy endings
Just what did you do, If you're a dream then come true
Stop pretending
That what you mean isn't what you say
Hopeful dreaming,
Of times before the pain, wishing it was still the same
Loving, leaving
Round and round and round we go again
Walks a-lone, have often lead to thinking
My love for you is sinking to what seems an all time low
Or high, the limits' never ending,
And don't you know I'm sending
There's no venture I won't go
For you
She walks away, she talks away
She walks away
She walks away, she talks away
Away, away...
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IT'S THE BELLS... ALL ABOUT THE BELLS!!!
TOTALLY! this is their best song live.. (i speak from many experiences lol)
ON MY GOSH these lyrics are SOOOOOOOOO horribly wrong...the song has a different message but you can't tell cuz these LYRICS AS SOOOOOOOO MIXED and MADE UP...check out the corrected ones!!!
AAAAAAAAAH!
go to AZLYRICS.com and get the CORRECT lyrics...;)
The best lyric in this song is "If you're a dream then come true" but it is really messed up in this posting...just thought i'd share that with you guys since you wouldnt get it from these lyrics! someone's gotta fix that...
i love this song .. but these lyrics are completely wrong!!
these are the lyrics:Time does tell That even if they say so She'd be the one that would know That I did do what I've done And I, I wouldn't call it cheating I'd just say I was leading her on Why walk while I run a-way You- you ask me what went wrong Me- i'll write you this last song Please- just tell me one way we can win One- more thing before I go Two- the one who loves me so Three- don't make me count to three again
Happy endings Just what did you do, If you're a dream then come true Stop pretending That what you mean isn't what you say Hopeful dreaming, Of times before the pain, wishing it was still the same Loving, leaving Round and round and round we go again
Walks a-lone, have often lead to thinking My love for you is sinking to what seems an all time low or high, the limits' never ending, And don't you know I'm sending There's no venture I won't go For you
You- you ask me what went wrong Me- i'll write you this last song Please- just tell me one way we can win One- more thing before I go Two- the one who loves me so Three- don't make me count to three again
Happy endings Just what did you do, If you're a dream then come true Stop pretending That what you mean isn't what you say Hopeful dreaming, Of times before the pain, wishing it was still the same Loving, leaving Round and round and round we go again
She walks away, she talks away She walks away She walks away, she talks away Away, away...
and etc etc etc ... someone had to correct those lyrics -- someone needs to get their ears checked or somethin...
i love this song so much! my favorite lines:
I did do what I've done And I, I wouldn't call it cheating I'd just say I was leading her on
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Great song, love it. A-AR rock!