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"
Take a seat, and catch your breath
You’re only working towards your death
For as the days go by
They go by oh so slow
But your blonde hair and gaping eyes
Send tingles down my nervous spine
And now the days go by
They go by oh so slow
But I’m yours if you want it
I can be yours to spend your life with
I can be yours; we’ll hide indoors
Petrified of the world
And if you’d rather stay in at night
I can relate to that
And if it feels like your heart’s dried up
I can relate to that
And if you need someone at your side
I am out there
I’m out there
Out there
In the grass at Union Square
I touched your face, pushed back your hair
And said, “The days go by…
They go by oh so slow.”
(Days go oh so slow)
And in a room, upon your bed
We tangled arms and crossed our legs
When you sleep alone
The days go oh so slow
But I’m yours if you want it
I can be yours to spend your life with
I can be yours; we’ll hide indoors
Petrified of the world
And if you’d rather stay in at night
I can relate to that
And if it feels like your heart’s dried up
I can relate to that
And if you need someone at your side
I am out there
I’m out there
Out there
I am yours if you want it
I can be yours to spend your life with
I can be yours; we’ll hide indoors
Petrified of the world
Oh!
And if you’d rather stay in at night
I can relate to that
And if it feels like your heart’s dried up
I can relate to that
And if you need someone at your side
I am out there
I’m out there
I am out there
You’re only working towards your death
For as the days go by
They go by oh so slow
But your blonde hair and gaping eyes
Send tingles down my nervous spine
And now the days go by
They go by oh so slow
But I’m yours if you want it
I can be yours to spend your life with
I can be yours; we’ll hide indoors
Petrified of the world
And if you’d rather stay in at night
I can relate to that
And if it feels like your heart’s dried up
I can relate to that
And if you need someone at your side
I am out there
I’m out there
Out there
In the grass at Union Square
I touched your face, pushed back your hair
And said, “The days go by…
They go by oh so slow.”
(Days go oh so slow)
And in a room, upon your bed
We tangled arms and crossed our legs
When you sleep alone
The days go oh so slow
But I’m yours if you want it
I can be yours to spend your life with
I can be yours; we’ll hide indoors
Petrified of the world
And if you’d rather stay in at night
I can relate to that
And if it feels like your heart’s dried up
I can relate to that
And if you need someone at your side
I am out there
I’m out there
Out there
I am yours if you want it
I can be yours to spend your life with
I can be yours; we’ll hide indoors
Petrified of the world
Oh!
And if you’d rather stay in at night
I can relate to that
And if it feels like your heart’s dried up
I can relate to that
And if you need someone at your side
I am out there
I’m out there
I am out there
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The Days Go By Oh So Slow Lyrics as written by Brandon Reilly
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