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"
I'm cutting through, you're bleeding out
And I would tell the truth, but I can't help myself
Red rushes out, dissect this nerve
And I'll stop myself before I reach my cell
I wasn't asking for the world
And you know that I'm not one to follow through
All these city streets the people look the same
And I can see your face, and I can hear your name
I wasn't asking for the world
You're stabbing in, permanent scars
And you'll justify it all inside yourself
You've finished me, my pulse is gone
And you're satisfied to put this all to hell
I wasn't asking for the world
And you know that I'm not one to follow through
All these city streets the people look the same
And I can see your face, and I can hear your name
I wasn't asking for the world
Drink the poison, when you think it's over
(Drink the poison)
Stabbing yourself, when you think it's too late
Tragic endings are your thing, you love them
(Tragic endings)
You love letting go, the ending's the same
Drink the poison, when you think it's over
(Drink the poison)
Inevitable, Verona lives inside of you
I wasn't asking for the world
And you know that I'm not one to follow through
All these city streets the people look the same
And I can see your face, and I can hear your name
I wasn't asking for the world
And I would tell the truth, but I can't help myself
Red rushes out, dissect this nerve
And I'll stop myself before I reach my cell
I wasn't asking for the world
And you know that I'm not one to follow through
All these city streets the people look the same
And I can see your face, and I can hear your name
I wasn't asking for the world
You're stabbing in, permanent scars
And you'll justify it all inside yourself
You've finished me, my pulse is gone
And you're satisfied to put this all to hell
I wasn't asking for the world
And you know that I'm not one to follow through
All these city streets the people look the same
And I can see your face, and I can hear your name
I wasn't asking for the world
Drink the poison, when you think it's over
(Drink the poison)
Stabbing yourself, when you think it's too late
Tragic endings are your thing, you love them
(Tragic endings)
You love letting go, the ending's the same
Drink the poison, when you think it's over
(Drink the poison)
Inevitable, Verona lives inside of you
I wasn't asking for the world
And you know that I'm not one to follow through
All these city streets the people look the same
And I can see your face, and I can hear your name
I wasn't asking for the world
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Great version of a great song,
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I think the song is about giving up, or being so dramatic over something, that you make it worse than it is. When he says, "Drink the poison when you think it's over. Stabbing yourself, when you think it's too late," he means that this person isn't thinking things over clearly, and is jumping to conclusions before the verdict is presented. The rest of the song sounds like living in regret from someone elses mistake. And because of that mistake, he is taking it upon him or herself. Either by falling into depression, or commiting suicide. And all this person ever wanted was for things to be normal, or for things to go his way, and since they didn't, he's not going to follow through, he's going to give up. Hints the words, "I wasn't asking for the world. And you know that I'm not one to follow through."
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Oh my god why has nobody commented on this fantastic opening song of the album.
such a solid tune.
silverstein keeps putting out great albums.
whats the verona reference?
tragic endings are your thing, you love them. you love letting go. i definitely can say that to someone. thats my favorite part of the song. i understand the bridge but the rest of the song i'm not really sure what it's about
I thought it ment that he was in love with a girl and all he asked for was her love back and she was just a b*tch to him and stuff and thats why he didnt ask for the world but :D w/e lol
I like to consider this song my life's theme song. It's just so peppy of a song. Makes me want to get up and dance even though it's not exactly a happy song.
Your stabbing in permanent scars, and you'll justify, it all inside yourself. You finish me, my pulse is gone, and you're satisfied to put this all to hell.
k weird. i so did not post that last comment.
but the first part of the comment i did post on a song by the stills.
wtf?
i think its about this guy who asks his girl something, and she shoots him down with low blows, and hes down for good now. idk if thats right, i just heard the song yesterday.