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"
"You" another tired second-person address,
Words written hastily and under duress.
I’m cold and holed up in the back of the van,
Devoid of eloquence or elegant plan.
And I’m paranoid,
And I can’t help but think
That somewhere someone
Is listening in.
But all the words that I kept in my pockets,
Jotted down on supermarket receipts,
At base turned out to be solid masonry.
And I’m scared of the kids
Who come to our shows,
And scared of the words
That they seem to know,
Because in truth all my high ideals are in ruins,
In truth I don’t really know what I’m doing.
Growing out of these clothes turned out to mean
Losing certainty.
So sing
"Your" voices level the land, my Jericho,
My rock and sure foundation.
Every love that made me lose my reasoning,
Every chord that made my conscience ache,
Every day spent counting hours
Well, none of them comes close
To singing back a song inside my head.
I always had a song inside my head.
And yes, there are times when I am tired and stressed,
When I am hasty and I’m under duress.
I’m a narcissist and I’m not at my best
I have to say I’m not impressed.
Of all the things that I believed in my teens,
I’m left with unread books and badly made 'zines...
Some might-have-beens that somehow even yet
Bring a spring to my step.
I remember calloused hands and paint-stained jeans,
And I remember safe-as-houses self-belief.
Sing
"Your" voices of destruction,
My rock and sure foundation,
My rock and sure foundation.
Every love that made me lose my reasoning,
Every chord that made my conscience ache,
And every day spent counting hours
Well, none of them comes close
To singing back a song inside my head.
And every line that made me lose my reasoning,
Every chord that made my conscience ache,
Every sound a memory
That’s all I ever need.
I always have a song inside my head.
I always have a song inside my head.
I always have a song inside my head.
Words written hastily and under duress.
I’m cold and holed up in the back of the van,
Devoid of eloquence or elegant plan.
And I’m paranoid,
And I can’t help but think
That somewhere someone
Is listening in.
But all the words that I kept in my pockets,
Jotted down on supermarket receipts,
At base turned out to be solid masonry.
And I’m scared of the kids
Who come to our shows,
And scared of the words
That they seem to know,
Because in truth all my high ideals are in ruins,
In truth I don’t really know what I’m doing.
Growing out of these clothes turned out to mean
Losing certainty.
So sing
"Your" voices level the land, my Jericho,
My rock and sure foundation.
Every love that made me lose my reasoning,
Every chord that made my conscience ache,
Every day spent counting hours
Well, none of them comes close
To singing back a song inside my head.
I always had a song inside my head.
And yes, there are times when I am tired and stressed,
When I am hasty and I’m under duress.
I’m a narcissist and I’m not at my best
I have to say I’m not impressed.
Of all the things that I believed in my teens,
I’m left with unread books and badly made 'zines...
Some might-have-beens that somehow even yet
Bring a spring to my step.
I remember calloused hands and paint-stained jeans,
And I remember safe-as-houses self-belief.
Sing
"Your" voices of destruction,
My rock and sure foundation,
My rock and sure foundation.
Every love that made me lose my reasoning,
Every chord that made my conscience ache,
And every day spent counting hours
Well, none of them comes close
To singing back a song inside my head.
And every line that made me lose my reasoning,
Every chord that made my conscience ache,
Every sound a memory
That’s all I ever need.
I always have a song inside my head.
I always have a song inside my head.
I always have a song inside my head.
Lyrics submitted by greenplastic
Living the Dream Lyrics as written by Francis Edward Turner Benjamin Russell Erring Dawson
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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