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"
My life is brilliant
What, was I too early? Oh, sorry
Should I
Do you wanna start over? Or, keep going?
Okay, now? Now?
My life is brilliant
Your life's a joke
You're just pathetic
You're always broke
Your homemade Star Trek uniform
Really ain't impressin' me
You're sufferin' from delusions of
Adequicy
You're Pitiful
It's true
You're Pitiful
It's true
You're Pitiful
It's true
Never had a date
That ya couldn't inflate
And ya smell repulsive too
What a bummer bein' you
Well ya just can't dance
And forget romance
Everybody you know still calls ya
Farty Pants
But you always have a job well I mean
As long as you still can work that slurpie machine
You're Pitiful
It's true
You're Pitiful
It's true
You're Pitiful
It's true
You're half undressed
Eatin' chips of your chest
While you're playin' Halo 2
No one's classier than you
Lalala la
Lalala la
Lalala la Loser
You're Pitiful
It's true
You're Pitiful
It's true
You're Pitiful
It's true
Your dog would much rather
Play fetch by itself
You still live with your Mom and you're 42
Guess you'll never grow a clue
When it just sucks to be you
What, was I too early? Oh, sorry
Should I
Do you wanna start over? Or, keep going?
Okay, now? Now?
My life is brilliant
Your life's a joke
You're just pathetic
You're always broke
Your homemade Star Trek uniform
Really ain't impressin' me
You're sufferin' from delusions of
Adequicy
You're Pitiful
It's true
You're Pitiful
It's true
You're Pitiful
It's true
Never had a date
That ya couldn't inflate
And ya smell repulsive too
What a bummer bein' you
Well ya just can't dance
And forget romance
Everybody you know still calls ya
Farty Pants
But you always have a job well I mean
As long as you still can work that slurpie machine
You're Pitiful
It's true
You're Pitiful
It's true
You're Pitiful
It's true
You're half undressed
Eatin' chips of your chest
While you're playin' Halo 2
No one's classier than you
Lalala la
Lalala la
Lalala la Loser
You're Pitiful
It's true
You're Pitiful
It's true
You're Pitiful
It's true
Your dog would much rather
Play fetch by itself
You still live with your Mom and you're 42
Guess you'll never grow a clue
When it just sucks to be you
Lyrics submitted by TheTriforce
You're Pitiful Lyrics as written by James Blount Sacha Skarbek
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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