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 need a break it's all the same
Under the sweet December rain
Just a crack of yellow light
To shine on my head
You'll find that I fought for the right
To laugh with my eyes till tears would fall
And the salt would hit my lips
With some love to help me survive
Don't you want it?
I've never seen anyone who wants it this bad
[Chorus]
You said games were much more fun
I'd rather play than get things done
Well look where we are now
Look where we are now
So the pencils change to pens
I just want to hang out with my friends
We can give it our all
Time after time but it just keeps getting harder
And getting hotter to the touch
I need the hot and simple sun
I wanna just let go
With someone to help me survive
Don't you want it?
I've never seen anyone who wants it this bad
[Chorus]
You said life happens too fast
I'd rather play and make it last
Well look where we are now
Well look where we are now
I guess if I change up this direction we could
Start it all over, my dear, yeah
If I could just move in this direction we could, yeah
[Chorus]
You said life happens too fast
I'd rather play and make it last
Well look where we are now
Well look where we are now
You said it, you said it
Games were much more fun
Well look where we are now
Under the sweet December rain
Just a crack of yellow light
To shine on my head
You'll find that I fought for the right
To laugh with my eyes till tears would fall
And the salt would hit my lips
With some love to help me survive
Don't you want it?
I've never seen anyone who wants it this bad
[Chorus]
You said games were much more fun
I'd rather play than get things done
Well look where we are now
Look where we are now
So the pencils change to pens
I just want to hang out with my friends
We can give it our all
Time after time but it just keeps getting harder
And getting hotter to the touch
I need the hot and simple sun
I wanna just let go
With someone to help me survive
Don't you want it?
I've never seen anyone who wants it this bad
[Chorus]
You said life happens too fast
I'd rather play and make it last
Well look where we are now
Well look where we are now
I guess if I change up this direction we could
Start it all over, my dear, yeah
If I could just move in this direction we could, yeah
[Chorus]
You said life happens too fast
I'd rather play and make it last
Well look where we are now
Well look where we are now
You said it, you said it
Games were much more fun
Well look where we are now
Lyrics submitted by spastic_kitty
Look Where We Are Now Lyrics as written by Teddy Geiger Billy Mann
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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The opening lines to this song just get me!
"I need a break it's all the same Under the sweet December rain "
Yeah, I love this song so much!