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"
I picked up some things at the thrift store today
Was an anklet, a box, and a picture frame
It cost me less than two bucks at the flea market booth
Spent the change on some candy satisfied my sweet tooth
The frame's to encase a picture of us
The smile on your face, really is a plus
The cake on your shirt, from when we'd shamelessly flirt
You pushing me around, but it didn't hurt
No, it didn't hurt
Bought the box to collect, all the things that I have
Placed my heart in the center, tried to heal up the scabs
But I've been unsuccessful and I continue to bleed
Maybe I'm holding on too tight, but I don't want to concede
And I'm showing you too much of what you don't want to see
'Cause I want to adore you, but you want to be free
So I look in the box, to see what I had
Even if it was just a moment baby, or a fleeting fad (was a fleeting fad)
The anklet was purchased as a gift for you
Bought out of habit, but I know it won't do
I don't think you'd take it, not the way things have changed
But I cannot return it, or make an exchange
So I'll store it away, maybe you'll want it someday
I'll give it to you then, things are better that way (better that way)
They say we fit like square pegs in round holes, but I don't know
I always kinda liked that show square pegs
I pry my eyes wide with surprise to touch your skin
And feel the rise of the hair on the back of your neck
Tie a string onto your finger, remember you're to be the bringer
Of the Lenny and the Squigtones last big hit single
And I swear I won't sing stupid songs
And I won't even bring my guitar along
We'll just color on paper thats meant to be written on
And I'll write on the pavement with chalk I've brought along
Hey, look what I've constructed from construction paper
A cape for you and all your capers
And tape that sticks to ticker tape parades
And roses made of bar room napkins
For if along the way it happens
The real life flowers that I gave to you have gone
And a lamented constitution just for you
And all your using to symbolize
How free you have become
It'll be so much fun
And I swear I won't raid the free hors d'oeuvre tray
And I won't let all my class get in the way
And I'll be the veritable prince that saves the day
But in the end I know you'll always change the game
Was an anklet, a box, and a picture frame
It cost me less than two bucks at the flea market booth
Spent the change on some candy satisfied my sweet tooth
The frame's to encase a picture of us
The smile on your face, really is a plus
The cake on your shirt, from when we'd shamelessly flirt
You pushing me around, but it didn't hurt
No, it didn't hurt
Bought the box to collect, all the things that I have
Placed my heart in the center, tried to heal up the scabs
But I've been unsuccessful and I continue to bleed
Maybe I'm holding on too tight, but I don't want to concede
And I'm showing you too much of what you don't want to see
'Cause I want to adore you, but you want to be free
So I look in the box, to see what I had
Even if it was just a moment baby, or a fleeting fad (was a fleeting fad)
The anklet was purchased as a gift for you
Bought out of habit, but I know it won't do
I don't think you'd take it, not the way things have changed
But I cannot return it, or make an exchange
So I'll store it away, maybe you'll want it someday
I'll give it to you then, things are better that way (better that way)
They say we fit like square pegs in round holes, but I don't know
I always kinda liked that show square pegs
I pry my eyes wide with surprise to touch your skin
And feel the rise of the hair on the back of your neck
Tie a string onto your finger, remember you're to be the bringer
Of the Lenny and the Squigtones last big hit single
And I swear I won't sing stupid songs
And I won't even bring my guitar along
We'll just color on paper thats meant to be written on
And I'll write on the pavement with chalk I've brought along
Hey, look what I've constructed from construction paper
A cape for you and all your capers
And tape that sticks to ticker tape parades
And roses made of bar room napkins
For if along the way it happens
The real life flowers that I gave to you have gone
And a lamented constitution just for you
And all your using to symbolize
How free you have become
It'll be so much fun
And I swear I won't raid the free hors d'oeuvre tray
And I won't let all my class get in the way
And I'll be the veritable prince that saves the day
But in the end I know you'll always change the game
Lyrics submitted by vacantjoshs, edited by Dingus
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its about some dude who bought stuff for a girl he really likes but she isnt digging him that much.
this song is by far my favorite next to indesisive but i dont know any more lyrics then vacantjoshs, i wish i did though, i could try to guess a few but im sure id be wrong anyways if you havent heard this song d/l it its well worth the wait *way different then DC
alright i think it gos ...they say we fit like square pegs around holes but i dont know i always kinda like that show square pegs i dried my eyes when......
and.... the frames to encase a picture of us... the anklet was purchased as a gift for you bought out of habbit but i know it wont do ***alright we need some more posts for this song im dissapointed
they say we fit like square pegs in round holes
chris sounds so funny as punk, I think it's great
I think the Vacant Andys are rad....ical
very rad.......and square pegs is an old television show