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'd like to see you crack crackin' up
in my front seat
leanin' over the emergency brake on me
I'd like to see you shake shakin'
by the bathroom door
drunk as fuck throwing up
on the kitchen floor
well you got this big hole
in your life
I'd like to think
it's just about my size
I know you'd take me
just take your time
if I wait up for you
I'll waste my life for you
if I wait up for you
I'll waste my life for you
and I have a heart
I do
I tried to be a vegan
tried to love the cure
your friend says you're lesbian
but I'm not so sure
I think, I, I, I,
I think I got a little rushed
I think I think I think I think I think
I think too much
well I got you covered
if you want to sleep
I got the kleenex
every time you sneeze
you say you want it
I say it's free
if I wait up for you
I'll waste my life for you
if I wait up for you
I'll waste my life for you
and I have a heart
I have a heart I do
so what's the use of saying fuck you?
what's the use of saying fuck you?
if I say fuck you
I'll never fuck you
so what's the use?
if I wait up for you
I'll waste my life for you
if I wait up for you
I'll waste my life for you
if I waste my life for you
I'll wait up for you
and I have a heart
I have a heart
I have a heart
I have a heart
I have a heart
I have a heart
I have a heart
I do
in my front seat
leanin' over the emergency brake on me
I'd like to see you shake shakin'
by the bathroom door
drunk as fuck throwing up
on the kitchen floor
well you got this big hole
in your life
I'd like to think
it's just about my size
I know you'd take me
just take your time
if I wait up for you
I'll waste my life for you
if I wait up for you
I'll waste my life for you
and I have a heart
I do
I tried to be a vegan
tried to love the cure
your friend says you're lesbian
but I'm not so sure
I think, I, I, I,
I think I got a little rushed
I think I think I think I think I think
I think too much
well I got you covered
if you want to sleep
I got the kleenex
every time you sneeze
you say you want it
I say it's free
if I wait up for you
I'll waste my life for you
if I wait up for you
I'll waste my life for you
and I have a heart
I have a heart I do
so what's the use of saying fuck you?
what's the use of saying fuck you?
if I say fuck you
I'll never fuck you
so what's the use?
if I wait up for you
I'll waste my life for you
if I wait up for you
I'll waste my life for you
if I waste my life for you
I'll wait up for you
and I have a heart
I have a heart
I have a heart
I have a heart
I have a heart
I have a heart
I have a heart
I do
Lyrics submitted by euthanasia27
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how has no one commented on any of street to nowheres songs??? i saw them play with the format and i LOVE all their songs :)
strert to nowhere is an awesome band, i think this song is about loving someone. "well you got this big hole in your life I'd like to think it's just about my size" aweosem lyrics. great song!!
Unrequited love.
I remember singing this while I was drunk. It meant a huge amount to me considering it was secretly aimed at someone I have previously rejected, who was in the room. They never knew. I got an applause though- so all is not lost.
it's funny... i have a friend who's lesbian and loves the cure. she's not vegan though.... i actually got to tell dave this.