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"
You should've heard me sobbing
Outside your home that night
Got in the bed and stayed there
For days I just laid there
Having been perimently changed
But we won't get into that now
Let's take it from the start
You should've seen me smiling
It's like the world was mine
She used to call me "Baby"
Softly, sometimes
But if I dwell on those days tonight
I feel like my life is over
And that's not good
So let's move on
To the part where I began to sense
Her distance
I've barely can hold on tighter
And that makes it worse cause how am I supposed to take it when she says
"It's just something I'm going through, it's got nothing to do with you"
I had a special evening all planned out
Desperately determined to re-ignite
Some spark between us
She had to feel something for me
A love as strong as ours doesn't Just go away
Can't just turn it off
Unless she was lying all those times
I don't think so, I really don't think so
The way she used to look at me made Me a thousand feet high
The meaning of the word cool
Not the same geek who fumbled with His words that night
The ugliest night
I said some pretty awkward things
I got the feel she felt sorry for me
I should've seen it was hopeless And left it alone but I had to go on embarrassing myself
I miss what we had I need you so badly
I must've sounded pretty pathetic I know
And that's why I don't blame her for what she said
"Listen to your Emily we don't know eachother that well but your so easy to talk to
I feel I can tell you almost anything
I hope I haven't but you off
I have the tendency to do that
Why don't I just be quiet."
Outside your home that night
Got in the bed and stayed there
For days I just laid there
Having been perimently changed
But we won't get into that now
Let's take it from the start
You should've seen me smiling
It's like the world was mine
She used to call me "Baby"
Softly, sometimes
But if I dwell on those days tonight
I feel like my life is over
And that's not good
So let's move on
To the part where I began to sense
Her distance
I've barely can hold on tighter
And that makes it worse cause how am I supposed to take it when she says
"It's just something I'm going through, it's got nothing to do with you"
I had a special evening all planned out
Desperately determined to re-ignite
Some spark between us
She had to feel something for me
A love as strong as ours doesn't Just go away
Can't just turn it off
Unless she was lying all those times
I don't think so, I really don't think so
The way she used to look at me made Me a thousand feet high
The meaning of the word cool
Not the same geek who fumbled with His words that night
The ugliest night
I said some pretty awkward things
I got the feel she felt sorry for me
I should've seen it was hopeless And left it alone but I had to go on embarrassing myself
I miss what we had I need you so badly
I must've sounded pretty pathetic I know
And that's why I don't blame her for what she said
"Listen to your Emily we don't know eachother that well but your so easy to talk to
I feel I can tell you almost anything
I hope I haven't but you off
I have the tendency to do that
Why don't I just be quiet."
Lyrics submitted by loserkidgirl
Pretty Pathetic Lyrics as written by Josh Caterer
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This is available on the australia on ep 'all you can ever learn is what you already know". It's a great song about wanting someone back but not being able to have them...really heartfelt even though it's a cover, at times it kind of makes you cringe "listen to me rambling".
this is really beautiful... i love you it ... i think they covered it well
great song, i love it, i actually only heard the smoking popes version.
it's about a relationship growing worse. the girl obviously is losing interest or acting differently. the guy doesn't want anything to change and begs the girl to go back to the way things used to be in the relationship, because at first the relationship was amazing.
so easy to relate to.