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"
Yesterday I broke my favorite chair
It cracked as I was sitting there
And on my way to work I fell asleep
That girl reminded me of
Another girl I use to see and
Her ghost continued haunting me all day long
You won’t recognize the sound my engine makes
The balding tires the squeaky brakes
But everybody makes mistakes I guess
That girl reminded me of
Another girl I use to see and
Her ghost continued haunting me all day long
I just want to laugh, but it’s just gonna hurt
Cause I can’t fix what I don’t know I broke
Just laugh and tell another joke
The sticks are woven in the spokes again
Cause I can’t fix what I don’t know I broke
Just laugh and tell another joke
The sticks are woven in the spokes again
I came home to find my neighbors gone
Found my teenage car parked on the lawn
Thought of all the ways that things have changed
So it’s true I never challenged you
Why do you always challenge me
I don’t get paid to sing what everyone is thinking
And I just want to laugh, but it’s just gonna hurt
Cause I can’t fix what I don’t know I broke
Just laugh and tell another joke
The sticks are woven in the spokes again
Cause I can’t fix what I don’t know I broke
Just laugh and tell another joke
The sticks are woven in the spokes again
It cracked as I was sitting there
And on my way to work I fell asleep
That girl reminded me of
Another girl I use to see and
Her ghost continued haunting me all day long
You won’t recognize the sound my engine makes
The balding tires the squeaky brakes
But everybody makes mistakes I guess
That girl reminded me of
Another girl I use to see and
Her ghost continued haunting me all day long
I just want to laugh, but it’s just gonna hurt
Cause I can’t fix what I don’t know I broke
Just laugh and tell another joke
The sticks are woven in the spokes again
Cause I can’t fix what I don’t know I broke
Just laugh and tell another joke
The sticks are woven in the spokes again
I came home to find my neighbors gone
Found my teenage car parked on the lawn
Thought of all the ways that things have changed
So it’s true I never challenged you
Why do you always challenge me
I don’t get paid to sing what everyone is thinking
And I just want to laugh, but it’s just gonna hurt
Cause I can’t fix what I don’t know I broke
Just laugh and tell another joke
The sticks are woven in the spokes again
Cause I can’t fix what I don’t know I broke
Just laugh and tell another joke
The sticks are woven in the spokes again
Lyrics submitted by NotCoolZeus
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This song is about how most guys cant really say what they feel and just shrug it off with a joke. The verses are talking about all the things in his life that are going wrong and the chorus talks about how he cant seem to fix his problems. The image of the sticks woven in the spokes is sort of the idea that he cant fix his problems cause he's almost part of the problem...(?).. i dunno it's still a really good song becuase the idea makes sense i just cant explain it to well.
I think Syross has a very good idea of what this song is about. My opinion is that his day has started off badly (breaking his favorite chair) and things just went downhill. He sings of a bittersweet memory of a girl, which brought him down for the rest of the day.. He sings about wanting to be happy, but laughing hurts because of the pain he's feeling inside.. And he sings of the memories stopping him from moving on... Have you ever tried to ride a bike with sticks and twigs, etc, woven into the spokes? Its kinda hard to get anywhere. And it can also be rather difficult to get them out...
I love this song. I love twothirtyeight...
Coming back to this, seeing as I wrote that almost a year ago... I think many times when life gets you down, the smallest things come to mean so very much. Something like his chair breaking(if that was all) would seem small and not that important... but all these little things just remind him of how much things are changing and how he's getting old. These are re-occuring themes in thier songs... and I love how they capture it.