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"
Well, no one told me about her
The way she lied
Well, no one told me about her
How many people cried
But it's too late to say you're sorry
How would I know, why should I care?
Please don't bother trying to find her
She's not there
Well, let me tell you 'bout the way she looked
The way she acts and the color of her hair
Her voice was soft and cool, her eyes were clear and bright
But she's not there
Well, no one told me about her
What could I do?
Well, no one told me about her
Though they all knew
But it's too late to say you're sorry
How would I know, why should I care?
Please don't bother trying to find her
She's not there
Well, let me tell you about the way she looked
The way she acts and the color of her hair
Her voice was soft and cool, her eyes were clear and bright
But she's not there
But it's too late to say you're sorry
How would I know, why should I care?
Please don't bother trying to find her
She's not there
Well, let me tell you about the way she looked
The way she acts and the color of her hair
Her voice was soft and cool, her eyes were clear and bright
But she's not there
The way she lied
Well, no one told me about her
How many people cried
But it's too late to say you're sorry
How would I know, why should I care?
Please don't bother trying to find her
She's not there
Well, let me tell you 'bout the way she looked
The way she acts and the color of her hair
Her voice was soft and cool, her eyes were clear and bright
But she's not there
Well, no one told me about her
What could I do?
Well, no one told me about her
Though they all knew
But it's too late to say you're sorry
How would I know, why should I care?
Please don't bother trying to find her
She's not there
Well, let me tell you about the way she looked
The way she acts and the color of her hair
Her voice was soft and cool, her eyes were clear and bright
But she's not there
But it's too late to say you're sorry
How would I know, why should I care?
Please don't bother trying to find her
She's not there
Well, let me tell you about the way she looked
The way she acts and the color of her hair
Her voice was soft and cool, her eyes were clear and bright
But she's not there
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She's Not There Lyrics as written by Rodney Terence Argent
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I'm pretty surprised that nobody has said this yet, but I've always thought that "she's not there" because "he" killed her. First, everything he says about her is in the past tense, except for "she's not there":
"Well let me tell you 'bout the way she looked" "Her voice was soft and cool Her eyes were clear and bright"
Then, there's the mysterious lyrics "But it's too late to say you're sorry" and "Please don't bother trying to find her." This suggests that he has already hid the body. He is warning whoever he is talking to that wherever they look for her, she won't be there.
The reason he killed her is clear from the lyrics "Well no one told me about her/ the way she lied/ Well no one told me about her/ how many people cried." This suggests that she was dishonest with him, likely in the form of cheating, that his friends knew she was like that, and that they never told him. He found out about her dishonesty, went crazy and killed her. Even though he will still talk about how attractive she was, he doesn't regret killing her:
"How would I know, why should I care"
SHE is definitely a borderline personality. But BPD's are rarely killed by their partners. It's almost always that the BPD murders their partner (even while being terrified of abandonment by that same partner!). They will push away a partner so that the partner can't abandon them first.<br /> <br /> BPD's also have a 10% suicide rate. It's all very tragic. Usually, if someone murders a person with BPD, it's NOT the BPD's partner (who is actively putting all of their effort into trying to fix/rescue the BPD.. there is NOBODY who will protect an individual with BPD like their partner will). On the other hand, the greatest threat of physical violence and death to someone with BPD (other than their own suicide gestures) are the immediate family of the BPD's partner, who have to endure hearing their loved-one's never ending tales of abuses committed by the BPD individual and watching the BPD's partner spiral down, down, down, down. Especially if the BPD is male, and the partner is female... if the the BPD refuses to seek treatment (which they rarely do, because to most of them, admitting to having a problem is even scarier than committing suicide!), then the partner's father or brother may well murder the BPD (especially once the BPD's constant need to "test" how much the partner will put up with crosses the line over into physical violence... at that point, a family member of the female partner might very well murder the male BPD).
Maybe there's something on the order of what goes on Dr. Who going on there. <br /> <br /> Equally valid are interpretations that it is a song about someone who is transgender. This could be argued, successfully. If she is now a he, then she no longer exists. The LGBT movement is extremely popular on this planet in this time period.