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"
Wait, dear
White horse is walking down my
Street here
Your words are creeping at my feet
I fear
That sunrise will come too soon and you'll
Disappear
To the haze of a city and yourself
Oh no
Look out
They're coming after us with big guns
They're only going to tell you all the bad things I've done
Even if the words they say aren't true
They've won
Now I'm left here dying in the sun
Whoa
Seem like I'm only coming
Seem like I'm never coming
Seem like in my eyes I'm at
I bet all the stars and boulevards
Aren't close enough to you
Late nights
Won't do me justice
When I drink I
Just get so damn depressed
And it's, it's not like
I ain't trying to get over you
It's just hard to look at all the seasons pass me all the time
And I said
Whoa
Seem like I'm only coming
Seem like I'm never coming
Seem like in my eyes I'm at
I bet all the stars and boulevards
Aren't close enough to you
One last
Phone call from you
It wouldn't hurt much
I just like to hear your voice
And pretend to touch
Any inch of you that hasn't said it all or read it all
I sung my life away
And I say
Whoa
Seem like I'm only coming
Seem like I'm never coming
Seem like in my eyes I'm at
All the stars and boulevards
Aren't close enough to you (seem like I'm only coming)
All the stars and boulevards
Aren't close enough to you (seem like I'm never coming)
All the stars and boulevards
Aren't close enough to you (seem like I'm only coming)
All the stars and boulevards
Aren't close enough to you
White horse is walking down my
Street here
Your words are creeping at my feet
I fear
That sunrise will come too soon and you'll
Disappear
To the haze of a city and yourself
Oh no
Look out
They're coming after us with big guns
They're only going to tell you all the bad things I've done
Even if the words they say aren't true
They've won
Now I'm left here dying in the sun
Whoa
Seem like I'm only coming
Seem like I'm never coming
Seem like in my eyes I'm at
I bet all the stars and boulevards
Aren't close enough to you
Late nights
Won't do me justice
When I drink I
Just get so damn depressed
And it's, it's not like
I ain't trying to get over you
It's just hard to look at all the seasons pass me all the time
And I said
Whoa
Seem like I'm only coming
Seem like I'm never coming
Seem like in my eyes I'm at
I bet all the stars and boulevards
Aren't close enough to you
One last
Phone call from you
It wouldn't hurt much
I just like to hear your voice
And pretend to touch
Any inch of you that hasn't said it all or read it all
I sung my life away
And I say
Whoa
Seem like I'm only coming
Seem like I'm never coming
Seem like in my eyes I'm at
All the stars and boulevards
Aren't close enough to you (seem like I'm only coming)
All the stars and boulevards
Aren't close enough to you (seem like I'm never coming)
All the stars and boulevards
Aren't close enough to you (seem like I'm only coming)
All the stars and boulevards
Aren't close enough to you
Lyrics submitted by insomniac328, edited by frerhrolf, sXe LEXXI, adngai
Stars and Boulevards Lyrics as written by Jared Palomar Daniel Layus
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saw them with the fray at a concert and fell in love.