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"
There she goes
She's walking down the boulevard
Paying absolutely no regard
To the people that she passes
Through those red-rimmed glasses
And she goes
Driving down the interstate
She's got to feeling quite irate
About her present situation
And the lack of her salvation
What can I say
To pacify your feeling gray
It probably wouldn't matter anyway
I'm just an accidental charlatan
In your world of fame and fortune
Ba ba ba
What can you say
We go and grab a bite to eat
I know a place on Mersey Street
Where the lights are hanging low
And the atmosphere's got soul
So let's go
We'll maybe catch a movie too
It'd just be me and you
We could sit in the back row
Wait until all the people go
And then we'll make out
Until the next morning comes
I promise I won't tell anyone
Except the little boy inside me
Who's been crying ever since you tied me
To your whim
Ba ba ba
There she goes
She's lighting up her cigarette
I think she's playing hard to get
Because everytime I see her
She hands me a pen and paper
And she says
"Draw me as a movie star
Make me look like Joan of Arc
A hero and a villain
Then I'll pretend that you're Bob Dylan
And we'll go home
And make love in the candlelight
Pretending everything's alright
Until I have the heart to tell you
That the picture that you just drew
Wasn't me"
Ba ba ba
I love to see her smile
As she looks into the camera
She speaks and I just stutter I...I...I
I'd like to get to know you
But I'm afraid to show
You my sins
So maybe we'd be better off
If we tried a different kind of love
Where we keep our independence
Love each other from a distance
It could be so good
You know we'd even keep the mystery
If you couldn't see inside of me
What a perfect situation
Space is our inebriation
Ba ba ba
She's walking down the boulevard
Paying absolutely no regard
To the people that she passes
Through those red-rimmed glasses
And she goes
Driving down the interstate
She's got to feeling quite irate
About her present situation
And the lack of her salvation
What can I say
To pacify your feeling gray
It probably wouldn't matter anyway
I'm just an accidental charlatan
In your world of fame and fortune
Ba ba ba
What can you say
We go and grab a bite to eat
I know a place on Mersey Street
Where the lights are hanging low
And the atmosphere's got soul
So let's go
We'll maybe catch a movie too
It'd just be me and you
We could sit in the back row
Wait until all the people go
And then we'll make out
Until the next morning comes
I promise I won't tell anyone
Except the little boy inside me
Who's been crying ever since you tied me
To your whim
Ba ba ba
There she goes
She's lighting up her cigarette
I think she's playing hard to get
Because everytime I see her
She hands me a pen and paper
And she says
"Draw me as a movie star
Make me look like Joan of Arc
A hero and a villain
Then I'll pretend that you're Bob Dylan
And we'll go home
And make love in the candlelight
Pretending everything's alright
Until I have the heart to tell you
That the picture that you just drew
Wasn't me"
Ba ba ba
I love to see her smile
As she looks into the camera
She speaks and I just stutter I...I...I
I'd like to get to know you
But I'm afraid to show
You my sins
So maybe we'd be better off
If we tried a different kind of love
Where we keep our independence
Love each other from a distance
It could be so good
You know we'd even keep the mystery
If you couldn't see inside of me
What a perfect situation
Space is our inebriation
Ba ba ba
Lyrics submitted by monkeyheroes
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