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'll take this as easy as I can make it seem
You'll keep me, me guessing
Act like you still believe
There's a time and place for everything
The words you spoke, the words he said
How could this happen to me
Wake up and turn around
You gave the flame, its burning out
And now you mean nothing to me...
You make it so easy to just walk away
You'll take me for granted
As we both know you have
There's a time and place for everything
The words you spoke, the words he said
How could this happen to me
Wake up and turn around
You gave the flame, its burning out
And now you mean nothing to me...
And so replace every dream you had
Find your way back home this time you'll be on your own
Ill be waiting there with you hope
The hopes of better days and a love that won't fade away
I've been feeling so lost but I won't let it show
Into your arms I've fallen once again
So I wake up, wake up
How could this happen to me
So I wake up, wake up
Don't let it burn out on me
You'll keep me, me guessing
Act like you still believe
There's a time and place for everything
The words you spoke, the words he said
How could this happen to me
Wake up and turn around
You gave the flame, its burning out
And now you mean nothing to me...
You make it so easy to just walk away
You'll take me for granted
As we both know you have
There's a time and place for everything
The words you spoke, the words he said
How could this happen to me
Wake up and turn around
You gave the flame, its burning out
And now you mean nothing to me...
And so replace every dream you had
Find your way back home this time you'll be on your own
Ill be waiting there with you hope
The hopes of better days and a love that won't fade away
I've been feeling so lost but I won't let it show
Into your arms I've fallen once again
So I wake up, wake up
How could this happen to me
So I wake up, wake up
Don't let it burn out on me
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This is my first comment on the site & yay it's for this band. I love all of the songs. Just Surrender is amazing; I love them to death.
This song means a lot to me. I relate to the words & feeling of the song in general.
To me it's about him having feelings for a girl, she once had feelings for him or led him on to believe she did but she is with another guy now and it's hurting him, but he doesn't want to show it. He wants to pretend that she means nothing to him but he still has feelings for her.
Just my opinion. Who knows.
"you gave the flame it's burning out and now you mean nothing to me you make it so easy just to walk away"
i love them. from the moment i heard them. goodness gracious. how is there only ONE comment on this song? it's simply amazing. and i can relate to it on so many levels.
the quote that i quoted says it all. at one point in our lives... we've met someone who has taken us for granted. or has pushed us to the edge--in a sense that we give in. we give up. where it would be impossible to keep fighting. &sooner or later. as pessimistic as it sounds... that person has no meaning to you anymore.
nicely done, boys. the lyrics are great.
^sorry for not writing in complete sentences. haha. when i get worked up and emotional i tend to write in fragments.
i agree wiff heartfelt that a guy really likes a girl and she says she likes him back and kindof that she says she doesnt have a bf anymore only him but she does and he doesnt wanna hurt so hes trying to convince himself to hate her but he just can't. because he could never hate her but he feels lost and wont let it show and really wants her to be his own and he still has hopes that she can be his for real not just her saying she likes him
yeah i think you get the picture