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"
These are your good years
Don't take my advice
You never wanted the nice boys anyway
And I'm of good cheer
Cause I've been checking my list
The gifts you're receiving from me
Will be
One awkward silence
And two hopes you cry yourself to sleep
Staying up, waiting by the phone
And all I want this year is for you to dedicate your last breath to me
Before you bury yourself alive
Don't come home for Christmas
You're the last thing I want to see
Underneath the tree
Merry Christmas, I could care less
Happy new years baby
You owe me the best gift I will ever ask for
Don't call me up, when the snow comes down
It's the only thing I want this year
One awkward silence
And two hopes you cry yourself to sleep
Staying up, waiting by the phone
All I want this year is for you to dedicate your last breathe to me
Before you bury yourself alive
Don't come home for Christmas
You're the last thing I want to see
Underneath the tree
Merry Christmas, I could care less
Don't come home for Christmas
You're the last thing I want to see
Underneath the tree (don't come home for Christmas)
Merry Christmas, I could care less
Don't come home for Christmas
You're the last thing I want to see
Underneath the tree (don't come home for Christmas)
Merry Christmas, I could care less
Don't take my advice
You never wanted the nice boys anyway
And I'm of good cheer
Cause I've been checking my list
The gifts you're receiving from me
Will be
One awkward silence
And two hopes you cry yourself to sleep
Staying up, waiting by the phone
And all I want this year is for you to dedicate your last breath to me
Before you bury yourself alive
Don't come home for Christmas
You're the last thing I want to see
Underneath the tree
Merry Christmas, I could care less
Happy new years baby
You owe me the best gift I will ever ask for
Don't call me up, when the snow comes down
It's the only thing I want this year
One awkward silence
And two hopes you cry yourself to sleep
Staying up, waiting by the phone
All I want this year is for you to dedicate your last breathe to me
Before you bury yourself alive
Don't come home for Christmas
You're the last thing I want to see
Underneath the tree
Merry Christmas, I could care less
Don't come home for Christmas
You're the last thing I want to see
Underneath the tree (don't come home for Christmas)
Merry Christmas, I could care less
Don't come home for Christmas
You're the last thing I want to see
Underneath the tree (don't come home for Christmas)
Merry Christmas, I could care less
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This is an amazing Christmas song (the only tolerable one, in my opinion), and it brings back quite a few fond, bitter holiday memories...sniffle
"These are your good years, don't take my advice, you never wanted the nice boys anyway" It seems that he's speaking from a father figure who's given up on his daughter (pretty much STRICTLY in this line). In other words, 'Even though I don't want you to, you're young, and you'll hang out with/date the bad kids no matter what I say'.
"And I'm of good cheer, cause I've been checking my list" In the eyes of a greedy, bitter person, they're happy when they don't give/spend a lot on others.
"The gifts you're receiving from me will be: one awkward silence and two hopes you cry yourself to sleep staying up waiting by the phone" First off, this is a discrete little play on words. Fall Out Boy is good with that :) It's speaking as if it's naming quantities of things on a list, as well as just naming them off (1- Awkward Silence, 2- Hopes). Also, he doesn't just not want her, but he wants her to want him and wait for him to call.
"All I want this year's for you to dedicate your last breath to me before you bury yourself alive" In other words, 'If I could have one wish, it would be for you to die lonely, still wanting me'.
"Don't come home for Christmas, you're the last thing I wanna see underneath the tree" He doesn't want her to surprise him with anything, he just wants her to go away.
"Merry Christmas, I could care less" He's a scrooge :)
"Happy New Years, baby, you owe me the best gift I will ever ask for" It's after Christmas, and she obviously came around anyways, because she didn't give him the gift that he wanted (which was for her to stay away).
"Don't call me up when the snow comes down, it's the only thing I want this year" Another small 'play on words' about up and down, possibly describing their relationship.
Maybe I got a little too analytical on some of those, but that's my opinion on it :) Merry Christmas!
wow.. i love this song.. this was my christmas anthem for 2003 i loved it every single snowy day because i was in love the last christmas and then i broke up and then i hear this from a friend and then im hooked.
yeah this is an awesome year around song for me... Who gives a shit if it's about christmas. It's 1 of FOB's best songs...
genius
this is a beautiful christmas song. kinda mean. but i like it... you all should also check out "i hate christmas parties" by matt thiessien and the earth quakes.. you could prolly find it under relient k too.
the best christmas "rock" song i've have heard ever. i'm completely in love with it and i know for a fact i'll whip it out every christmas and maybe even not at christmas time...it's awesome...;D fob is wiiicked =)
yay! exellent christmas song!! (i always liked the sad christmas songs....merry fucking christmas to you too!)
:) i love this song. catchy.
amazing.... just amazing.. the sound everything is amazing this song rocks.. I hear it in my boyfriends car and when I hear it... I was shocked, best of the "rock"christmas songs
but sad at the same time