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 spend the afternoon in cars
I sit in traffic jams for hours
Don't push me, I am not OK
The sky is blue most every day
The lemons grow like tumors they
Are tiny suns infused with sour
Lonely as a cloud
In the Golden State
The coldest winter that I ever saw was
The summer that I spent
The only substance is the fog
And it hides all that has gone wrong
Can't see a thing inside the maze
There is a bridge adored and famed
The golden spine of engineering
Whose back is heavy with my weight
Lonely as a cloud
In the Golden State
The coldest winter that I ever saw was
The summer that I spent
Be still this old heart
Be still this old skin
Drink your last drink
Sin your last sin
Sing your last song
About the beginning
Sing it out loud
So the people can hear
Let's go!
Be still this sad day
Be still this sad year
Hope your last hope
Fear you last fear
You're not the only one
You're not the only one
You're not the only one
You're not the only one
Let's go!
My falling shape will draw a line
Between the blue of sea and sky
I'm not a bird, I'm not a plane
I took a taxi to the gate
I will not go to school again
Four seconds was the longest wait
Four seconds was the longest wait
Four seconds was the longest wait
Four seconds was the longest wait
Four seconds was the longest
I sit in traffic jams for hours
Don't push me, I am not OK
The sky is blue most every day
The lemons grow like tumors they
Are tiny suns infused with sour
Lonely as a cloud
In the Golden State
The coldest winter that I ever saw was
The summer that I spent
The only substance is the fog
And it hides all that has gone wrong
Can't see a thing inside the maze
There is a bridge adored and famed
The golden spine of engineering
Whose back is heavy with my weight
Lonely as a cloud
In the Golden State
The coldest winter that I ever saw was
The summer that I spent
Be still this old heart
Be still this old skin
Drink your last drink
Sin your last sin
Sing your last song
About the beginning
Sing it out loud
So the people can hear
Let's go!
Be still this sad day
Be still this sad year
Hope your last hope
Fear you last fear
You're not the only one
You're not the only one
You're not the only one
You're not the only one
Let's go!
My falling shape will draw a line
Between the blue of sea and sky
I'm not a bird, I'm not a plane
I took a taxi to the gate
I will not go to school again
Four seconds was the longest wait
Four seconds was the longest wait
Four seconds was the longest wait
Four seconds was the longest wait
Four seconds was the longest
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Jumpers Lyrics as written by Corin Lisa Tucker Carrie Rachel Brownstein
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@mattd23 I think you're right. The title is "Jumpers" - but I think it it written from both perspectives. Those who jumped and those left behind who watched.