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"
Get up in the morning,
I wash my face,
Go inside I play with the blender for a while,
Go down the stairs, and out to the street,
And I play in the dirt for a while,
Go back up the stairs to my apartment,
Go back in the door,
Walk across to the kitchen, and I fix myself a snack.
All the things I could've said to you,
It's much too late, I'm happy now
I'll go..
Get up in the morning,
I wash my face,
Go inside I play with the blender for a while,
Go down the stairs, and out to the street,
And I play in the dirt for a while.
Go back up the stairs to my apartment,
Walk back in the door,
Walk across to the kitchen, and I uh...fix myself a snack.
And all the things that I could have said to you,
It's much too late, I'm happy now
I'll go out to the fire escape,
Going up going up,
To the first floor,
and the second floor,
and the third floor,
and the fourth floor, and the fifth and the sixth and the seventh and the eighth,
We'll all fall off the top,
And we all fall off the top,
Wear all my clothing until it's gone,
Yeah, I'll wear all my clothing until it's gone,
And if I don't have any clothing on,
It means that all my clothings gone.
All the things I could've said to you,
It's much too late, I'm happy now
Go out to the fire escape,
Going up going up,
To the first floor,
and the second floor,
and the third floor,
and the fourth floor, and the fifth and the sixth and the seventh and the eighth,
We'll all fall off the top,
Yeah we all fall off the top,
I'm singing this song today,
Cause I'm hoping that maybe some of you out there may know what I'm talking about,
Perhaps you've experienced pain once,
Perhaps you've experienced pain twice,
In fact, maybe you're experiencing pain right now,
Well if you're currently experiencing pain,
Or if you've ever experienced pain,
What I want you to do is I want you to walk over to that window and follow me,
(hey hey hey)
Go out to the fire escape,
Going up going up,
To the first floor,
and the second floor,
and the third floor,
and the fourth floor, and the fifth and the sixth and the seventh and the eighth,
We'll all fall off the top,
(this is where you guys sing)
And we all fall off the top.
(x5)
I wash my face,
Go inside I play with the blender for a while,
Go down the stairs, and out to the street,
And I play in the dirt for a while,
Go back up the stairs to my apartment,
Go back in the door,
Walk across to the kitchen, and I fix myself a snack.
All the things I could've said to you,
It's much too late, I'm happy now
I'll go..
Get up in the morning,
I wash my face,
Go inside I play with the blender for a while,
Go down the stairs, and out to the street,
And I play in the dirt for a while.
Go back up the stairs to my apartment,
Walk back in the door,
Walk across to the kitchen, and I uh...fix myself a snack.
And all the things that I could have said to you,
It's much too late, I'm happy now
I'll go out to the fire escape,
Going up going up,
To the first floor,
and the second floor,
and the third floor,
and the fourth floor, and the fifth and the sixth and the seventh and the eighth,
We'll all fall off the top,
And we all fall off the top,
Wear all my clothing until it's gone,
Yeah, I'll wear all my clothing until it's gone,
And if I don't have any clothing on,
It means that all my clothings gone.
All the things I could've said to you,
It's much too late, I'm happy now
Go out to the fire escape,
Going up going up,
To the first floor,
and the second floor,
and the third floor,
and the fourth floor, and the fifth and the sixth and the seventh and the eighth,
We'll all fall off the top,
Yeah we all fall off the top,
I'm singing this song today,
Cause I'm hoping that maybe some of you out there may know what I'm talking about,
Perhaps you've experienced pain once,
Perhaps you've experienced pain twice,
In fact, maybe you're experiencing pain right now,
Well if you're currently experiencing pain,
Or if you've ever experienced pain,
What I want you to do is I want you to walk over to that window and follow me,
(hey hey hey)
Go out to the fire escape,
Going up going up,
To the first floor,
and the second floor,
and the third floor,
and the fourth floor, and the fifth and the sixth and the seventh and the eighth,
We'll all fall off the top,
(this is where you guys sing)
And we all fall off the top.
(x5)
Lyrics submitted by skyphilis
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