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"
[Verse 1:]
Closed window pane
I stare out all day
This room and the walls
We wait for the call
And slow like decay
This progress we made
[Pre Chorus:]
Could You...
[Chorus:]
Get to the point
Get it across
To the poison
Atop of the ladder
I'm climbing up
I,I
Have my doubts
[Verse 2:]
This is a call
From my cage
Through the bars
Inspired by the dollar sign
That's dangling outside
[Pre Chorus:]
Someone....
[Chorus:]
Get to the point
Get it across
To the poison
Atop of the ladder
I'm climbing up
I,I
Have my doubts
My doubts
My doubts
My doubts!
[Bridge:]
Go on and get it right
Get it right
Just stay
Just stay the same way
Do it like
You did it before
Remain
Remain the same
[Chorus:]
Get to the point
Get it across
To the poison
That's atop of the ladder
I'm climbing up
I,I
Have my doubts
Get to the point
Get it across
To the poison
Atop of the ladder
I'm climbing up
I,I
Have my doubts
Closed window pane
I stare out all day
This room and the walls
We wait for the call
And slow like decay
This progress we made
[Pre Chorus:]
Could You...
[Chorus:]
Get to the point
Get it across
To the poison
Atop of the ladder
I'm climbing up
I,I
Have my doubts
[Verse 2:]
This is a call
From my cage
Through the bars
Inspired by the dollar sign
That's dangling outside
[Pre Chorus:]
Someone....
[Chorus:]
Get to the point
Get it across
To the poison
Atop of the ladder
I'm climbing up
I,I
Have my doubts
My doubts
My doubts
My doubts!
[Bridge:]
Go on and get it right
Get it right
Just stay
Just stay the same way
Do it like
You did it before
Remain
Remain the same
[Chorus:]
Get to the point
Get it across
To the poison
That's atop of the ladder
I'm climbing up
I,I
Have my doubts
Get to the point
Get it across
To the poison
Atop of the ladder
I'm climbing up
I,I
Have my doubts
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Isn't it "to the boys at the top of the ladder", as in corporate suits?
yah i think it's the boys at the top of the ladder
I actually think the song is about the trouble the Starting Line had with the label they were on. (They also, during the last warped tour, asked to be released from it). Kenny relates touring to a caged animal thats only freed to perform. Its only inspiration being $. The label/people at the top are telling them to "just do it like you did it before" and to "just stay the same shape" because they were so successful before. They think there is no need for change when really the band wants to and will inevitably change. The label is holding them back and decaying all the progress they made. Thus he says he has his doubts as to what that kind of life this band really has.
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I think there's a verse missing from this
well a lyric site reads like this for the song.
[Verse 1:] closed window pane I stare out all day this room and the walls we wait for the call and slow like decay this progress we made
[Pre Chorus:] could You...
[Chorus:] get to the point get it across to the boys at the top of the ladder I'm climbing up I,I have my doubts
[Verse 2:] This is a call from my cage through the bars inspired by the dollar sign that's dangling outside
[Pre Chorus:] Someone....
[Chorus:] get to the point get it across to the boys at the top of the ladder I'm climbing up I,I have my doubts my doubts my doubts my doubts!
[Bridge:] go on and get it right get it right, OK? just stay just stay the same way do it like you did it before, OK? remain remain the same shape
[Chorus:] get to the point get it across to the boys at the top of the ladder I'm climbing up I,I have my doubts
get to the point get it across to the boys at the top of the ladder I'm climbing up I,I have my doub