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"
I've never been so happy to see a photograph of me
Then when graced with your company.
You're making a small change to the way
That you wear your heart.
I like it better, I like it, I like it better now
[Chorus]
I'll swing from a streetlight
And sing oh, oh, oh
I'm stuck in the meantime
But we're so, oh close
The sunlight is overwhelming the scene that is
Composed of you and me in our finest moment.
An amazing illusion was made with trick photography
It seems like you're really, you're really,
It feels like you're really here.
[Chorus]
As I'm grilled by a spotlight
I'll sing oh, oh, oh
And the thrill of a good fight
Is we are so, oh close.
Then when graced with your company.
You're making a small change to the way
That you wear your heart.
I like it better, I like it, I like it better now
[Chorus]
I'll swing from a streetlight
And sing oh, oh, oh
I'm stuck in the meantime
But we're so, oh close
The sunlight is overwhelming the scene that is
Composed of you and me in our finest moment.
An amazing illusion was made with trick photography
It seems like you're really, you're really,
It feels like you're really here.
[Chorus]
As I'm grilled by a spotlight
I'll sing oh, oh, oh
And the thrill of a good fight
Is we are so, oh close.
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this songs really good, it seems a little cliche kind of at first but it grew on me and now it's just really good like i said. I saw them do it at skate and surf this past year and kenny played the piano instead of the guitar at the beginning, good times.
I like this new emo phase of TSL
I just saw them live and they played this song... wow. I was amazed.
Accctually it really is called Photography...it is by far the best song on the new CD though...
loving the starting line..saw them ast month and this song was incredible live.
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this song is super-amazing.. i love it.
i think this is one of the best songs on the album.. maybe even THE best. It is just so different from most of the songs on there.. so much emotion put into it. he basically is just missing someone so much that he can't take it anymore.. it's like she is so close, yet so far.. love it!
this song is so awesum, im an english fan, i think this so is so full of emotion! i think this song is about a girl that has died or moved away, and kenny and her where "So Close" the line "i'm stuck in the meantime" i think means that she has long gone but he is still wondering what to do about it. Also the line "it feels like you're really here" makes me think that she has passed away or moved, i aint sure tho....FCUKing brilliant track tho xXx
man...i cannot express how great this song is. i can relate to it 100%. this is hands down the best song on the album...