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"
Smiles and her laughter
It's the only thing
That I've been waiting for a time
Regardless of our distance and our hope
Grows greater
Trapped by pretty eyes and letters for all time
The only thing that I've been waiting for.
I hope it's something worth the waiting
Cause it's the only time that I ever feel real
Thunder storms could never stop me
Cause there's no one in the world like Emily
She's simple yet confusing
Her sparkling eyes make me weak at my words, they tremble
Days seem like years in this month of December
The winter coldens me for I have yet to sleep
And never will I give up trying
Because you're everything to me
I hope it's something worth the waiting
It's the only time that I ever feel real
Thunder storms could never stop me
Cause there's no one in the world like Emily.
It's the only thing
That I've been waiting for a time
Regardless of our distance and our hope
Grows greater
Trapped by pretty eyes and letters for all time
The only thing that I've been waiting for.
I hope it's something worth the waiting
Cause it's the only time that I ever feel real
Thunder storms could never stop me
Cause there's no one in the world like Emily
She's simple yet confusing
Her sparkling eyes make me weak at my words, they tremble
Days seem like years in this month of December
The winter coldens me for I have yet to sleep
And never will I give up trying
Because you're everything to me
I hope it's something worth the waiting
It's the only time that I ever feel real
Thunder storms could never stop me
Cause there's no one in the world like Emily.
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Its about his sister....
I bet datrical11 listens to "deep" crap like 50 Cent.
The general fact that none of you know the meaning behind this song is riviting This song yes is about love but the symbols in it should tell you Emily has committed suicide and he is wanting to be with her he wont kill himself because its not his time everything he says about her is a memory this is not a love song this is a suicde this is how he lost his girl friend this is how he remembers her and when he gets where hes going then hell see her and he hopes its worth the waiting Symbols- thunderstorms (a block in which keeps you in depression) december (the start and end of something) winter (death) metaphors- the winter coldens me for i have yet to sleep (its not his time hes trapped living while dead) shes simple yet cunfusing (how she is easy to understand but her ways are complicated who she is as a being is complex)
so this song may represent another emily in the happiness but no one truly know the meaning until you break i tdown now think about that
if u cant play this song buddy... u got some problems
if u cant play this song buddy... u got some problems
Personally, I think that this is a GOOD song. The members of this band are such nice people. And are awesome live. Anyways My mothers opinion on the said that in this song they sound like he has wads of shit in his mouth, And that this isnt there best song. I love it though. <333
ughhhhhh absolutely amazing, weather your name is Emily or not…which mine is not, it makes you feel good, because it is just so sweet, but also makes you feel sadness, and a longing for guys that have this much passions, song that can make you feel so much so be applauded
This song is amazing, and every line of it describes my girlfriend Emily. This singing in this song sucks, but it makes up for it by the lyrics.
love it
love it