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"
No I'm not mad but I think they forget
What it's like and how hard it is to be a teenager
This is a new day and age, we read a different book
Where Elvis ain't the rage and polyester ain't the look
And will we change at all when we get old?
Or will we be the same? Never do what we're told
Well that depends on you, are you doing the right thing?
It's not about control, it's about you and me and understanding
Teenage politics it's too confusing
Politics politics it's too confusing x2
Is it time again to disagree
About anything and everything and what's on tv
It's a vicious circle, never ending
A linear equation worldly extending
Teenage politics it's too confusing
Politics politics it's too confusing x2
No I'll never be like you I'll never ever be like you
Oh no! x2
I'm just like you!
What it's like and how hard it is to be a teenager
This is a new day and age, we read a different book
Where Elvis ain't the rage and polyester ain't the look
And will we change at all when we get old?
Or will we be the same? Never do what we're told
Well that depends on you, are you doing the right thing?
It's not about control, it's about you and me and understanding
Teenage politics it's too confusing
Politics politics it's too confusing x2
Is it time again to disagree
About anything and everything and what's on tv
It's a vicious circle, never ending
A linear equation worldly extending
Teenage politics it's too confusing
Politics politics it's too confusing x2
No I'll never be like you I'll never ever be like you
Oh no! x2
I'm just like you!
Lyrics submitted by willsmile4MxPx
Teenage Politics Lyrics as written by Mike Himelstein Brian Robert Setzer
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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