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"
Do you know what they say
Do you know what they say, what they say about you
Do you know what they do
Do you know what they do when you leave the room
(x2)
Never thought twice about holding your tongue
Once upon a time you were so young
Everywhere you carried around your soul
In the night they stole it, left you skin and bones – knife in your back
Laughing aloud at your expense, fed themselves on innocence – knife in your back
Their attacks inserted doubt, now you're stranded in the cold with a knife in your back
Do you know what they feel
Do you know what they feel, what they feel for you
Do you know how they play
Do you know how they play, how they play inside you
Do you know what they steal
Do you know what they steal, what they steal from you
Do you know how they prey
Do you know how they prey, how they prey upon you
Never thought twice about holding your tongue
Once upon a time you were so young
Everywhere you carried around your soul
In the night they stole it, left you skin and bones – knife in your back
Laughing aloud at your expense, fed themselves on innocence – knife in your back
Their attacks inserted doubt, now you're stranded in the cold with a knife in your back
Tell me did you grow after all these years?
Giving up control and buying into fear
Nights slip into mornings and days remain unchanged
but their mighty appetites will not be tamed.
Do you care, Do you care
Do you care what they say
Do you care what they say, what they say about you
Do you care how they prey
Do you care how they prey, how they prey upon you
Upon you
Do you know what they say, what they say about you
Do you know what they do
Do you know what they do when you leave the room
(x2)
Never thought twice about holding your tongue
Once upon a time you were so young
Everywhere you carried around your soul
In the night they stole it, left you skin and bones – knife in your back
Laughing aloud at your expense, fed themselves on innocence – knife in your back
Their attacks inserted doubt, now you're stranded in the cold with a knife in your back
Do you know what they feel
Do you know what they feel, what they feel for you
Do you know how they play
Do you know how they play, how they play inside you
Do you know what they steal
Do you know what they steal, what they steal from you
Do you know how they prey
Do you know how they prey, how they prey upon you
Never thought twice about holding your tongue
Once upon a time you were so young
Everywhere you carried around your soul
In the night they stole it, left you skin and bones – knife in your back
Laughing aloud at your expense, fed themselves on innocence – knife in your back
Their attacks inserted doubt, now you're stranded in the cold with a knife in your back
Tell me did you grow after all these years?
Giving up control and buying into fear
Nights slip into mornings and days remain unchanged
but their mighty appetites will not be tamed.
Do you care, Do you care
Do you care what they say
Do you care what they say, what they say about you
Do you care how they prey
Do you care how they prey, how they prey upon you
Upon you
Lyrics submitted by JennnnysCOOL
Do You Know (Knife In Your Back) Lyrics as written by Donn Johnson
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Spirit Music Group
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plus your lyrics are pretty far off, Do you know what they say, Do you know what they say, what they say about you? Do you know what they do? Do you know what they do, when you leave the room?
Never thought twice about holding your tongue, Once upon a time you were so young. Everywhere you carried around your soul. In the night they stole it, left you skin and bones - knife in your back. Laughing aloud at your expense, fed themselves on innocence - knife in your back. Their attacks inserted doubt, now you're stranded in the cold with a knife in your back.
Do you know what they feel? Do you know what they feel, what they feel for you? Do you know how they play? Do you know how they play, how they play inside you? Do you know what they steal? Do you know what they steal, what they steal from you? Do you know how they prey? Do you know how they prey, how they pray upon you?
Never thought twice about holding your tongue, Once upon a time we were so young. Everywhere you carried around your soul. In the night they stole it, left you skin and bones - knife in your back. Laughing aloud at your expense, fed themselves on innocence - knife in your back. Their attacks inserted doubt, now your stranded in the cold with a knife in your back. Tell me did you grow after all these years? Giving up control and buying into fear, Night slips into morning and days remain unchanged, But their mighty appetites will not be tamed.
Do you care, do you care? Do you care what they say? Do you care what they say, what they say about you? Do you care how they prey? Do you care how they prey, how they prey upon you. Upon you.
some parts are played twice or repeated and some of those parts are sung by somone else while the lead is singing or the background guy is singing :)