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"
How in my head can I forget you make me suffer, Yeah!
Trying to see how far you'll push me underground
Back into the rhythm fast trippin me when your in my world, Yeah!
Everything you say I find a way to bring you down!
WHY!?
Another way for you to fake your way through your life, Yeah!
Remember everything you do will come around
Never Am I going back to think I'm on crack and you might like it, Yeah!
Will you ever fade away baby? Why don't you just get out of my life!
WHY!?
I think of you sometimes but I never believe in you again!
I think of you sometimes but I never believe in you again!
I think of you sometimes but I never believe in you again!
I think of you sometimes but I never believe in you again!
And I'll never look back!
WHY!?
WHY!?
Trying to see how far you'll push me underground
Back into the rhythm fast trippin me when your in my world, Yeah!
Everything you say I find a way to bring you down!
WHY!?
Another way for you to fake your way through your life, Yeah!
Remember everything you do will come around
Never Am I going back to think I'm on crack and you might like it, Yeah!
Will you ever fade away baby? Why don't you just get out of my life!
WHY!?
I think of you sometimes but I never believe in you again!
I think of you sometimes but I never believe in you again!
I think of you sometimes but I never believe in you again!
I think of you sometimes but I never believe in you again!
And I'll never look back!
WHY!?
WHY!?
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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I dont think Ive heard it but it has to be good
its off of the Any Given Day soundtrack. its not on any of their records...
why don't they put this and Bring it On on their next cd? yeah. do it godsmack. do eet.
yeah I like this song! yeah ! made me think that girls are really sometimes selfish thinking about themselves. even though she knows that it cost too much pain. most beautiful girls are really proud of themselves and the moment they met a guy whose handsome than they're so called boyfriends they can't avoid flirting with them. maybe that's the way how reality works. I don't know about relationships but I had an experience about this thing. but I'm not generalizing that all girls are like this. maybe because of what they see in the movies these days. maybe because of the trend these days. which makes the generation embrace polygamy. talking about screaming infidelities. and I hate those girls who thinks they're really damn pretty and thinks that they should look for a guy whose just handsome and if not rich but what about us ? nice guys !!! not so cute but nice and sensible whose ready to defend them whose ready to sacrifice everything in the name of love! whose going to be there every time she needs some help whose not gonna turn a back from her. yeah! that's why I don't believe in love anymore. even though I'm a member of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints I still don't believe in true love anymore . I guess that true love are for all of those people whose rich and famous whose handsome and not ugly like me. even though I have a job girls seems not satisfied if your diligent what they want is a guy who has a high status whose a professional . fetch! rock n roll all of this all of what we have in this world is just temporary we cannot bring this into our grave. life is so short I'm already 26 and I want to die at 27 like Kurt Cobain yeah you know your right I'm a loser! but who cares I ain't seen my dad I came from a broken family . and my job is just to teach Koreans how to speak English on-line and no matter what I do no one appreciates that I need to support my mom cause she's already 56 and I never had a chance to go into college cause it's either I had to choose between going to school without any food in your stomach or just have to look for a job to pay for the bills and earn for a living. I had a girlfriend whom I lost because she said that she found someone whose better way far better than me since she can't see me anymore cause she's now leaving in the states and I'm still here in hell (Philippines) she choose to go with that guy despite of my love for her. I don't even understand why she just left me for that guy. and why do girls now a days choose a guy whom they just think he's cute and he's got a class. so why not? fetch the world is so ugly.!!! can't control my self I'm sorry. -peace out- rock music rules- grunge,metal, death, gothic,black,heavy,hairmetal,glam,numetal. as long as it's rock cool -amen-
yeah I like this song! yeah ! made me think that girls are really sometimes selfish thinking about themselves. even though she knows that it cost too much pain. most beautiful girls are really proud of themselves and the moment they met a guy whose handsome than they're so called boyfriends they can't avoid flirting with them. maybe that's the way how reality works. I don't know about relationships but I had an experience about this thing. but I'm not generalizing that all girls are like this. maybe because of what they see in the movies these days. maybe because of the trend these days. which makes the generation embrace polygamy. talking about screaming infidelities. and I hate those girls who thinks they're really damn pretty and thinks that they should look for a guy whose just handsome and if not rich but what about us ? nice guys !!! not so cute but nice and sensible whose ready to defend them whose ready to sacrifice everything in the name of love! whose going to be there every time she needs some help whose not gonna turn a back from her. yeah! that's why I don't believe in love anymore. even though I'm a member of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints I still don't believe in true love anymore . I guess that true love are for all of those people whose rich and famous whose handsome and not ugly like me. even though I have a job girls seems not satisfied if your diligent what they want is a guy who has a high status whose a professional . fetch! rock n roll all of this all of what we have in this world is just temporary we cannot bring this into our grave. life is so short I'm already 26 and I want to die at 27 like Kurt Cobain yeah you know your right I'm a loser! but who cares I ain't seen my dad I came from a broken family . and my job is just to teach Koreans how to speak English on-line and no matter what I do no one appreciates that I need to support my mom cause she's already 56 and I never had a chance to go into college cause it's either I had to choose between going to school without any food in your stomach or just have to look for a job to pay for the bills and earn for a living. I had a girlfriend whom I lost because she said that she found someone whose better way far better than me since she can't see me anymore cause she's now leaving in the states and I'm still here in hell (Philippines) she choose to go with that guy despite of my love for her. I don't even understand why she just left me for that guy. and why do girls now a days choose a guy whom they just think he's cute and he's got a class. so why not? fetch the world is so ugly.!!! can't control my self I'm sorry. -peace out- rock music rules- grunge,metal, death, gothic,black,heavy,hairmetal,glam,numetal. as long as it's rock cool -amen-
DUDE ^^^ You would really post that mess on this site? I think u need a suicide prevention hot line. Seriously...life is not that bad. Good grief.
Haha yeah. I totally agree with you. If someone is going to post that kinda crap on a forum, they definitely need help. Anyway... I wonder how many people know that "Bring It On" and "Why" aren't the only songs that Godsmack has done that have not been released on any of their albums?? They happened to also do cover of White Zombie's "Thunderkiss '65" and Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall". They also did a cover of Led Zepplin's "Good Times, Bad Times", but that was released on their "Good Times, Bad Times...Ten Years of Godsmack" greatest hits album...