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 miss the way you sing low
So can't I hear your voice over
The radio in my car
But you knew every word they sang
You knew you just the right thing to say when the
Distance rips us farther and farther and farther away
I'll see you soon
If you're coming back this way again
Come back from California
All of us here in Florida
Are starved for your attention
We're starved for your attention
Come back from California
All of us here in Florida
Are starved for your attention
Are starved for your attention
Maybe I fell too fast
Maybe I pushed you away
Now you're gone and I'm afraid
That you're never coming back this away again
I'll see you soon
If you'll come back here
I'll see you soon
Just say that you want to see me too
Come back from California
All of us here in Florida
Are starved for your attention
Are starve for your attention
Come back from California
All of us here in Florida
Are starved for your attention
Are starved for your attention
You know I won't mind if you
Monopolize all my time
I won't say a thing at all
I won't say a word no
So come back from California
Come back from California
So can't I hear your voice over
The radio in my car
But you knew every word they sang
You knew you just the right thing to say when the
Distance rips us farther and farther and farther away
I'll see you soon
If you're coming back this way again
Come back from California
All of us here in Florida
Are starved for your attention
We're starved for your attention
Come back from California
All of us here in Florida
Are starved for your attention
Are starved for your attention
Maybe I fell too fast
Maybe I pushed you away
Now you're gone and I'm afraid
That you're never coming back this away again
I'll see you soon
If you'll come back here
I'll see you soon
Just say that you want to see me too
Come back from California
All of us here in Florida
Are starved for your attention
Are starve for your attention
Come back from California
All of us here in Florida
Are starved for your attention
Are starved for your attention
You know I won't mind if you
Monopolize all my time
I won't say a thing at all
I won't say a word no
So come back from California
Come back from California
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This song fucking destroys me. Mainly because I want to go BACK to California.
Maybe I fell too fast Maybe I pushed you away Now you're gone and I'm afriad That you're never coming back this away again
gotta love that
the end of this song puts me in total air guitar assault mode.
i somewhat relate to this song right now because i have someone in another state (not quite california) and i'm longing to have her back and have her attention.
i <3 copeland
i cant really relate to this but i know id love to rip a pennsylvania boy's head off.
I <3 copeland
this song is about aarons gf who had cancer and had to go to california to get her treatment and the distance ripped them farther and farther away. i love the emotion you can feel in this song. it is beautiful
This is my reserved sad song.. y'know, the song you listen to when you're feeling particularly sad. My boyfriend lives about an hour away, which isn't as bad as California, but when you're sad about something, logic doesn't ever come into play. This song always makes me feel a little better.
i put this on someones cd who lives in cali and im in fl .. perfect song . so sweet too i loev this part
''You know I won't mind if you Monopolize all my time I won't say a thing at all I won't say a word no ''
beautiful , just beautiful ..
Copeland is amazing and i urge everyone to try and see them play live, they are really cool.