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"
No sleep
I haven't slept for a week
And I'm cold
Yeah I'm so cold
She's right
I should do something with my life
But I'm old, I'm old I'm getting old
Those eyes
She said they don't recognize me
Those lips
They're never calling my name
It feels so heavy
It feels so heavy, heavy
I'm waiting for a Saturday
I'm waiting for a Saturday
And I'm too young to be old
Une fille jolie
Passait tout près de moi
Elle arrêtait le temps
Au coin de Sainte-Catherine et Saint-Laurent
It feels so heavy
It feels so heavy, heavy
I'm waiting for a Saturday
I'm waiting for a Saturday
And I'm too young to be old
Elle me regardait
Et elle souriait
Elle m'a fait penser à rien en ce moment
Mais comme le vent elle s'en allait
Et moi j'suis réveillé
Ouais moi j'suis reveillé
It feels so heavy
It feels so heavy, heavy
I'm waiting for a Saturday
I'm waiting for a Saturday
And I'm too young to be old
It feels so heavy
It feels so heavy, heavy
I'm waiting for a Saturday
I'm waiting for a Saturday
And I'm too young to be old
It feels so heavy
It feels so heavy, heavy
I'm waiting for a Saturday
I'm waiting for a Saturday
And I'm too young to be old
I haven't slept for a week
And I'm cold
Yeah I'm so cold
She's right
I should do something with my life
But I'm old, I'm old I'm getting old
Those eyes
She said they don't recognize me
Those lips
They're never calling my name
It feels so heavy
It feels so heavy, heavy
I'm waiting for a Saturday
I'm waiting for a Saturday
And I'm too young to be old
Une fille jolie
Passait tout près de moi
Elle arrêtait le temps
Au coin de Sainte-Catherine et Saint-Laurent
It feels so heavy
It feels so heavy, heavy
I'm waiting for a Saturday
I'm waiting for a Saturday
And I'm too young to be old
Elle me regardait
Et elle souriait
Elle m'a fait penser à rien en ce moment
Mais comme le vent elle s'en allait
Et moi j'suis réveillé
Ouais moi j'suis reveillé
It feels so heavy
It feels so heavy, heavy
I'm waiting for a Saturday
I'm waiting for a Saturday
And I'm too young to be old
It feels so heavy
It feels so heavy, heavy
I'm waiting for a Saturday
I'm waiting for a Saturday
And I'm too young to be old
It feels so heavy
It feels so heavy, heavy
I'm waiting for a Saturday
I'm waiting for a Saturday
And I'm too young to be old
Lyrics submitted by geekusa, edited by SuperCath41st
No Sleep Lyrics as written by Sam Lewis Roberts
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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For anyone wondering, here's a translation of the French lyrics.
A pretty girl Walks close to me She stops time On the corner of St. Catherine and St. Laurent
She looks at me And she smiles She makes my mind blank But like the wind she goes And I wake up Yes I wake up
St. Catherine and St. Laurent are intersecting streets, in Montreal. This intersection is particularly infamous for it's prostitutes. I belive that this song is about a man who just couldn't pick a girl and settle down.
Second stanza is about the hooker (that he's been to, or that's an ex of his): she doesn't recognize me, and she just calls out for people the more i think about this, the harder time i have figuring out what it really means... the hooker being an ex could be a sort of foreshadowing on how bleak his future will be if he continues like this
Saturday is THE party night by excellence
Minor translation corrections: (as part of it is actually sung in the past perfect) A pretty girl Passed me ever so close She stopped time At the corner of St. Catherine and St. Laurent
She looked at me and she smiled She made me think of nothing at that moment But like the wind, she left And I'm awake Yea I'm awake
The song with the most beautiful melody on We Were Born In A Flame. Not too many people posting on Sam Roberts. I'm from Canada, and he's quite popular here... a very mainstream artist. To my understanding he's not very popular in American yet though. Well, he's definitely not ashamed of his Canadian roots in his music... I think he represents Canada very well, especially rural and small town Canada. Anyway, it's a great album and he's great in concert.
I love how he added French into the song, he definitely represents Montreal well (yes! those are actual streets in my city!) :) It kind of contributes to his image, or what he represents, the fact that not many people know him in the States. I'm proud to be from his same hometown.. :D Seen him live twice, and i gotta say - he can't rock harder than he does already. Sam Roberts band is awesome.
Sam Roberts is great live, what an excellent song.
mm he has such a sexy voice.
mm he has such a sexy voice.
I thought the last two lines were "and I wake up Yes, I wake up" But I could be wrong.
A hangdog, fizzled out but cooled down song--I get something like the blues from the English stanzas. As for the French, I can see it being about an overly-romanticized encounter, one with a woman of the night--except it was all a dream. 'Et moi, je me reveillais.' Walter Mitty comes to mind.
Bravo, Mr. Roberts, for making such a spectacular bilingual song!
How 'romantic' can an encounter be when it's with a prostitute? She must have excelled in her high school drama group....
Really great song, but a few corrections:
Une fille jolie, passait tout près de moi, elle arrêtait le temps, Au coin de Sainte-Catherine et Saint-Laurent (Chorus) Elle me regardait, elle souriait, elle m'a fait penser à rien en ce moment, Et comme le vent, elle s'en allait, et moi je suis réveillé, ouais moi je suis réveillé