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"
The tension in the chain was about to break
And the gears and the wheels had all they could take
And the pressure in her head went crazy and freaked
And now she laughs when she tries to speak
Button down white, collared shirt she wore last night
Is lying on my floor
Complicated friends wanna know whats in store
You've never seen anything not like this, not again, for sure
Tired of this energy uncertainty it's killing me what for
The heaters will hum when the furnace is done
and the auto-pilot light passes out in a tub
The lens is stopping down and there's film in the tanks
Try to freeze motion before the moment goes blank
How could you ignore
I've seen the way he looks at you
When telling all those lies...
Are you impressed my dear
You've never seen anything, not like this, not again for sure
Tired of this energy uncertainty is killing me what more
With a wedding at the harbor with the best of tuba players
And the admirals little navy is all lined up like good sailors
And Annette and little Frankie ditched the beach
and came a running straight away
To say goodbye at high tide have a nice life
I'm thinking please, but Im saying no
Lost somewhere between
Gravity and the stars
A barstools growing cold
and a piano collects scars
Incase we rode too far
I keep a pillow in the car
While on radio and late t.v is our heavy wet rotation dream
Never seen anything, not like this, not again for sure
Tired of this energy uncertainty is killing me what more
You've never seen anything, not like this, not again for sure
Tired of this energy uncertainty is killing me what more
Say goodbye at high tide have a nice life
I'm thinking please
And the gears and the wheels had all they could take
And the pressure in her head went crazy and freaked
And now she laughs when she tries to speak
Button down white, collared shirt she wore last night
Is lying on my floor
Complicated friends wanna know whats in store
You've never seen anything not like this, not again, for sure
Tired of this energy uncertainty it's killing me what for
The heaters will hum when the furnace is done
and the auto-pilot light passes out in a tub
The lens is stopping down and there's film in the tanks
Try to freeze motion before the moment goes blank
How could you ignore
I've seen the way he looks at you
When telling all those lies...
Are you impressed my dear
You've never seen anything, not like this, not again for sure
Tired of this energy uncertainty is killing me what more
With a wedding at the harbor with the best of tuba players
And the admirals little navy is all lined up like good sailors
And Annette and little Frankie ditched the beach
and came a running straight away
To say goodbye at high tide have a nice life
I'm thinking please, but Im saying no
Lost somewhere between
Gravity and the stars
A barstools growing cold
and a piano collects scars
Incase we rode too far
I keep a pillow in the car
While on radio and late t.v is our heavy wet rotation dream
Never seen anything, not like this, not again for sure
Tired of this energy uncertainty is killing me what more
You've never seen anything, not like this, not again for sure
Tired of this energy uncertainty is killing me what more
Say goodbye at high tide have a nice life
I'm thinking please
Lyrics submitted by Lenggo
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