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"
Love can be so strange
Don't it amaze you?
Every time you give yourself away
It comes back to haunt you
Love's an elusive charm and it can be painful
To understand this crazy world
But you're not gonna crack
No you're never gonna crack
Run my baby run my baby run
Run from the noise of the street and the loaded gun
To late for solutions to solve in the setting sun
So run my baby run my baby run
Life can be so cruel
Don't it astound you?
So when nothing seems too certain or safe
Let it burn through you
You can keep it pure on the inside
And you know what you believe to be right
So you're not gonna crack
No you're never gonna crack
Run my baby run my baby run
Run from the noise of the street and the loaded gun
To late for solutions to solve in the setting sun
So run my baby run my baby run
Find out who you are before you regret it
'Cause life is so short there's no time to waste it
So run my baby run my baby run
Run from the noise of the street and the loaded gun
To late for solutions to solve in the setting sun
So run my baby run my baby run
Don't it amaze you?
Every time you give yourself away
It comes back to haunt you
Love's an elusive charm and it can be painful
To understand this crazy world
But you're not gonna crack
No you're never gonna crack
Run my baby run my baby run
Run from the noise of the street and the loaded gun
To late for solutions to solve in the setting sun
So run my baby run my baby run
Life can be so cruel
Don't it astound you?
So when nothing seems too certain or safe
Let it burn through you
You can keep it pure on the inside
And you know what you believe to be right
So you're not gonna crack
No you're never gonna crack
Run my baby run my baby run
Run from the noise of the street and the loaded gun
To late for solutions to solve in the setting sun
So run my baby run my baby run
Find out who you are before you regret it
'Cause life is so short there's no time to waste it
So run my baby run my baby run
Run from the noise of the street and the loaded gun
To late for solutions to solve in the setting sun
So run my baby run my baby run
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"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
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Magical
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Shirley is telling someone about how cruel life can be, and it can get harder, but don't let it break you.
"Everytime you give yousrself away, it comes back to haunt you." This means that once you let someone in or trust someone with something very important, they can backstab you and throw it all in your face. It makes you want to give up and break, but she's telling the audience to run, to not let it get the best of you.
"When nothing seems certain or safe, let it burn through you." That's my favorite line from the song. It's saying to not be so cautious, take some chances and let go! If it's dangerous, don't think "what if this happens, what if that happens, something could go wrong".. she's saying to hell with it, go through with it anyway.
I think this song's meaning is pretty obvious: When it gets too tough, just take what you learned - don't let it get you down - and just run away. It's kind of a cowardly way of life, but some people (like myself) just can't handle anymore pain, so they run. "Find out who you are before you are before you regret it because life is so short; there's no time to waste it" is basically Shirley's way of justifying the "running". She's basically saying, "Why sit around and put up with more pain when you could be moving on to find what you're looking for?". Beautiful song.
This song makes me sad & happy at the same time everytime I hear it. Awesome song. =3333
this song is about teenage runaways
i just got hooked on this song. i think i might have to go get their cd when it comes out tomorrow, if only for this song.
I heard this song once and had it stuck in my head the rest of the day. Love it love it love it
i think this song's about trying to hold onto ideals that you have when you're younger despite facing despair.. "you can keep it pure on the inside, and you know what you believe to be right". parts of the song seem kind of sarcastic though, like it's impossible to be so pure. love it!
what a mess. dont run away from love and the mess gets left in the wake of life. i reckon that although this song is saying run, it's only telling a story thru the eyes of someone who runs away from love and life and their problems but the middle 8 really is saying... dont run, you only have one life and tough as it is, we all go thru it and we all make it at the end of the day. so dont run run baby run run baby run. face up to things. we'd all be much happier xxxx
what a mess. dont run away from love and the mess gets left in the wake of life. i reckon that although this song is saying run, it's only telling a story thru the eyes of someone who runs away from love and life and their problems but the middle 8 really is saying... dont run, you only have one life and tough as it is, we all go thru it and we all make it at the end of the day. so dont run run baby run run baby run. face up to things. we'd all be much happier xxxx
I listened to this song when I had a breakup and it clearly seems to be about that to me. It's definitely saying that don't let the hurt make you into a bitter person and to learn from the mistake instead of repeating it.