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"
Where am I
Sleeping at the console
I dreamt something
That I don't remember
Checking in
Just like any other
Signing off
Signing out forever
Your second hand
That's the reason why you're easy to drive
(the reason why)
You understand
That's the reason why you're easy to hide
My heart says yes
But I was sedated
Signing off
Checking in together
Your second hand
That's the reason why you're easy to drive
(the reason why)
You understand
That's the reason why you're easy to hide
(the reason why)
You joined a band
That's the reason why you're easy to try
(the reason why)
You understand
That's the reason why you're easy to hide
Sleeping at the console
I dreamt something
That I don't remember
Checking in
Just like any other
Signing off
Signing out forever
Your second hand
That's the reason why you're easy to drive
(the reason why)
You understand
That's the reason why you're easy to hide
My heart says yes
But I was sedated
Signing off
Checking in together
Your second hand
That's the reason why you're easy to drive
(the reason why)
You understand
That's the reason why you're easy to hide
(the reason why)
You joined a band
That's the reason why you're easy to try
(the reason why)
You understand
That's the reason why you're easy to hide
Lyrics submitted by onethinwallaway
The Reason Why Lyrics as written by Daniel Hunt
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Could be wrong, but for me, the words are right there and I relate.
I'm so infatuated and obsessed over the person I can't have that I fall asleep at my console, my laptop, my phone, exhausting myself to see them whilst researching on how to win them or just day dreaming of them. I don't remember my actual dreams I'm so exhausted.
I'm checking in my social media, just like any other, no big deal. It's not about them, right?
Signing off, signing out forever? Me deleting and attempting to stay off forever, just to get them off my mind and over it.
Your second hand, that's the reason why you're easy to drive. My second hand is my weak side, I easily drive myself crazy.
You understand, that's the reason why you're easy to hide I understand I can easily hide my feelings if I must
My heart says yes, but I was sedated I'm more in love with this guy because he's like drugs to me, I'll say yes to anything he needs.
Signing off, checking in together. Singing off, hiding again, and there were times where he's actually met me or reached out after being away, checking in together. He'll still check up with me. Maybe I'm hoping this time, he will.
You joined a band, that's the reason why you're easy to try Here I am, obsessing over lyrics, writing my own, joining the sad poets because I'm so emotionally vulnerable.