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"
Today I finally lost it
today I went insane
From waiting and from pushing
but I'm the one to blame
Today I learned my lesson
I'll never step out of line
I'll close my eyes and whisper
and everything will be just fine
Wait I've almost got it
don't give up on me yet
I'd really love to show you
I did it all, I did it all for you
today I went insane
From waiting and from pushing
but I'm the one to blame
Today I learned my lesson
I'll never step out of line
I'll close my eyes and whisper
and everything will be just fine
Wait I've almost got it
don't give up on me yet
I'd really love to show you
I did it all, I did it all for you
Lyrics submitted by OliveYou
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I compare this song to something Radiohead would create with the help of a band like Mogwai. There's such a melancholy sadness in the song that allows your mind to seamlessly float between the Bitter and the Sweet. It slowly builds until it finally soars into an epic climax of sound taking your soul and mind through a space of emotional release until it fades into a void of haunting emotion. The music and lyrics flow together so well that this picture is so clearly seen and felt every time you listen to it.
Obviously this song is about giving up and failing. As if something continues to become bottled up inside. With lyrics like "Today I learned my lesson, I'll never step out of line. I'll close my eyes and whisper, and everything will be just fine." suggests that no more will they attempt to live or have any sense of self. As life has brought them to their knees and they will quit fighting in hopes that it will have enough pity to leave them be.
Right when they think they have almost fixed everything, as they bottle up everything as best they can, everyone gives up on them and leaves. Whether this is a relationship or something else is unclear but the feeling is still the same. After the lyrics end the music takes care of the rest as you can almost feel that emotional breakdown when the climax kicks in. They embody the numb feeling after the breakdown slowly fades out and you are left to your thoughts to reflect. Such a sad song but its so true to the emotions it portrays...
Couldn't help but ramble, this song is so PERFECTLY done that it astounds me with every repeated listen...