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"
blind to the answers, find yourself,
walk for the moment, find the reason in yourself,
theres a reason for you and i,
take this time to find a meaning,
a reason to sit back and measure the worst 6 years of my life,
waiting for your legs to close on my best friends,
last night i saw your life flash before my eyes,
why did i laugh so hard baby?
(you won't be back and i'm still laughing)
i never meant to hurt you (but i did)
i'm sorry that you cried so hard darling,
i'll never hurt you again,
take this time to find your tongue,
a sorry excuse to stop your lies,
the best 30 seconds of my life,
my angel take your pills,
my angel i sold your ring,
and now i can't stop laughing,
i didnt want it this way,
i hope you're happy where you are
and i'm glad to say i put you there,
who's the one that's laughing now,
i'm the one who's laughing now
(now theres nothing left to say
i hope you're feeling my embrace, and i can't sleep)
you should have left me sleeping,
you should have let me sleep...
walk for the moment, find the reason in yourself,
theres a reason for you and i,
take this time to find a meaning,
a reason to sit back and measure the worst 6 years of my life,
waiting for your legs to close on my best friends,
last night i saw your life flash before my eyes,
why did i laugh so hard baby?
(you won't be back and i'm still laughing)
i never meant to hurt you (but i did)
i'm sorry that you cried so hard darling,
i'll never hurt you again,
take this time to find your tongue,
a sorry excuse to stop your lies,
the best 30 seconds of my life,
my angel take your pills,
my angel i sold your ring,
and now i can't stop laughing,
i didnt want it this way,
i hope you're happy where you are
and i'm glad to say i put you there,
who's the one that's laughing now,
i'm the one who's laughing now
(now theres nothing left to say
i hope you're feeling my embrace, and i can't sleep)
you should have left me sleeping,
you should have let me sleep...
Lyrics submitted by rjbucs28
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this song is very paradoxical. there is the apology: "i never meant to hurt you (but i did) i'm sorry that you cried so hard darling, i'll never hurt you again"...and yet there is also the seemingly hateful mocking of " who's the one that's laughing now, i'm the one who's laughing now"...i get a really bittersweet, regretful tone from this one.
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I think its about how he can't get over it "I've swallowed nails so I can never say your name"
man there's love and hate in this one..hah, i love it.
this song is sooooo good i like when it says "why did i laugh so hard baby? (you wont be back and i'm still laughing)" i remember once something happened between me and one of my guy friends and i reliazed that it would never be the same between us and i just bursted out laughing...im weird.
i think its about a girl that cheated on him, and now he wants to kill her, or he did...thats where you get the "a reason to sit back and measure the worst 6 years of my life, waiting for your legs to close on my best friends" and then it goes into "i never meant to hurt you (but i did)" and that sort of stuff...you know..cause she wont be back, cause shes dead...
man this song is waYY better than a sip iof wine etc and SHOOTing star.,,,it needs more post,,this is one of the m,ost saddest songs of the Cd,,the video is dope for low budjet...this sog also has the baddest breakdown and bridge,,,"yeaohhhhhhh"
dammit,,ASL rox my forehead
"theres a reason, theres a reason for you and i." i love that part..
this is my favourite song from them =)
waiting for, your legs to close, on my best friend's... haha yep that's my case.. my bestfriend with my boyfriend.. u wont be back and im still :)