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"
What happened to you?
You've played the victim for so long now in this game
What I thought was true
Is made of fiction and I'm following the same
But if I try to make sense of this mess I'm in
I'm not sure where I should begin
I'm fallin', I'm fallin'
Now I'm in over my head
With something I said
Completely misread
I'm better off dead
And now I can see
How fake you can be
This hypocrisy's beginning to get to me
It's none of my concern
Don't look to me 'cause I don't believe in fame
I guess you never heard
I've met our makers, they don't even know your name
But if I had to say goodbye to leave this hell
I'd say my time has served me well
I'm fallin', I'm fallin'
Now I'm in over my head
With something I said
Completely misread
I'm better off dead
And now I can see
How fake you can be
This hypocrisy's beginning to get to
This came long before
Those who suffer more
I'm too awake for this to be a nightmare
What's with my disgrace
I've lost the human race
No one plans for it to blow up in their face
Who said it was easy to put back all these pieces?
Who said it was so easy to put back all of these pieces?
Now I'm in over my head
With something I said
Completely misread
I'm better off dead
And now I can see
How fake you can be
This hypocrisy's beginning to get to me
Over my head
Better off dead
Over my head
Better off dead
Alright
You've played the victim for so long now in this game
What I thought was true
Is made of fiction and I'm following the same
But if I try to make sense of this mess I'm in
I'm not sure where I should begin
I'm fallin', I'm fallin'
Now I'm in over my head
With something I said
Completely misread
I'm better off dead
And now I can see
How fake you can be
This hypocrisy's beginning to get to me
It's none of my concern
Don't look to me 'cause I don't believe in fame
I guess you never heard
I've met our makers, they don't even know your name
But if I had to say goodbye to leave this hell
I'd say my time has served me well
I'm fallin', I'm fallin'
Now I'm in over my head
With something I said
Completely misread
I'm better off dead
And now I can see
How fake you can be
This hypocrisy's beginning to get to
This came long before
Those who suffer more
I'm too awake for this to be a nightmare
What's with my disgrace
I've lost the human race
No one plans for it to blow up in their face
Who said it was easy to put back all these pieces?
Who said it was so easy to put back all of these pieces?
Now I'm in over my head
With something I said
Completely misread
I'm better off dead
And now I can see
How fake you can be
This hypocrisy's beginning to get to me
Over my head
Better off dead
Over my head
Better off dead
Alright
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Well, tcpl, I guess you've never said anything and had it misinterpreted from a negative angle. It doens't exactly induce waves of pleasure through you. It can be difficult to change what people really think when something is interpreted wrong.
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My best birthday was when i turned 15 nd my sisters bought me a ticket to see Sum 41. Best concert ever. This song was the one that really stuck with me and i listened to it almost every day until i got Chuck, then i fell in love with that album.
actual lyrics
What happened to you You've played the victim for so long now in this game What i thought was true It's made of fiction and I'm following the same
But if I try To make sense of this mess I'm in I'm not sure where I should begin I'm falling, I'm falling
Now I'm in over my head, for something i said Completely misread, I'm better off dead. And now I can see, how fake you can be This hypocrisy's beginning to get to me.
It's none of my concern Why look to me because I don't believe in fame I guess you never heard I've met our makers They don't even know your name
But if I had to say goodbye to leave this hell I'd say my time has served me well I'm falling I'm falling
Now I'm in over my head, for something i said Completely misread, I'm better off dead And now I can see, how fake you can be This hypocrisy's beginning to get to
This came long before those who suffer more I'm too awake for this to be a nightmare What's with my disgrace I lost the human race No one plans for it to blow up in their face
Who said it was easy to put back all these pieces Who said it was so easy to put back all of these pieces
Now I'm in over my head, with something I said Completely misread, I'm better off dead And now I can see, how fake you can be This hypocrisy's beginning to get to me
Over my head, better off dead Over my head, better off dead
This song is just plain sexy! Deryck sings the verses so hot that I am in love!
jeebus, super, isn't that kinda shallow? isn't that RIDDICULOUSLY shallow? I agree with SuZ. and tcpl, you're stupid. music is music, and no one type is better then any other. it's all in taste.
this is when the stupid march in and say I'm wrong, and point fingers at bands like simple plan, and rap, and classical if they can think about it. and then somebody halfway through smart says I'm right.
the song's awesome, try the acoustic version.
mmmmmmmmm...............good times.
i love this song, it means to me that hes done something which has fucked everything up, or said something and someones twisted his words (i can totaly relate atm!!)
Im not sure what the over-all meaning of this song is but the line that sticks out to me is in the chorus. "Now I'm in over my head, with something i said, completely misread, im better off dead." This line to me, everyone can relate to. It saying that he has said things and somebody took it the wrong way and told everyone else about it and its so overwhelming on him. Thats just what I think though.
he's said something to a chic, and she's interpreted it the wrong way. now he's saying she's always been fake and he's discovered her and now he's gonna break up with her and move on.. maybe? lol