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 never took you for a trip, but
Sometimes, I don't know what you want
I can take it if you need to,
Take this out on someone
That little thing with her head held so high
Talking tough, and I
Cut myself so I could feel something I
Know is not alive
That one stings a little,
I'm always in the middle
I don't expect, but try me,
And you will always find me here
This is where I scream from
Yeah, you can take it all and work it out, yes
There's a little bit of you in all this
You can say the only thing you know, yeah
Please, there's a better bit of me to see yet,
'Cause you haven't see any of my best
Know I hate myself without you now, yeah
Hurts to see, but nobody knows,
Guess that's just how it goes
And I, I won't say anything at all
I was taking on a dollar sign, anxious,
Scared of what you need
Everybody wants a piece of you,
Everyone takes a piece of me
That one stings a little,
I'm always in the middle
I don't expect, but try me,
And you will always find me here
This is where I scream from
Yeah, you can take it all and work it out, yes
There's a little bit of you in all this
You can say the only thing you know, yeah
oh, Please, there's a better bit of me to see yet,
'Cause you haven't see any of my best
Know I hate myself without you now, yeah
Hurts to see, but nobody knows,
Guess that's just how it goes
And I, I won't say anything at all
(I-I-I-Iiii)
This is the hook, take it like I took
I'm shaking like I shook before
And I'm a little better off
I'm not the only one
This is where I stopped before
And now you have a piece of me
I always slip away from
I always slip away from
I won't say anything, but
Yeah, you can take it all and work it out, yes
There's a little bit of you in all this
You can say the only thing you know, yeah
Please, there's a better bit of me to see yet,
'Cause you haven't see any of my best
Know I hate myself
Hurts to see, when nobody knows,
Guess that's just how it goes
And I, I won't say anything at all
I won't say anything at all
I won't say anything at all
Sometimes, I don't know what you want
I can take it if you need to,
Take this out on someone
That little thing with her head held so high
Talking tough, and I
Cut myself so I could feel something I
Know is not alive
That one stings a little,
I'm always in the middle
I don't expect, but try me,
And you will always find me here
This is where I scream from
Yeah, you can take it all and work it out, yes
There's a little bit of you in all this
You can say the only thing you know, yeah
Please, there's a better bit of me to see yet,
'Cause you haven't see any of my best
Know I hate myself without you now, yeah
Hurts to see, but nobody knows,
Guess that's just how it goes
And I, I won't say anything at all
I was taking on a dollar sign, anxious,
Scared of what you need
Everybody wants a piece of you,
Everyone takes a piece of me
That one stings a little,
I'm always in the middle
I don't expect, but try me,
And you will always find me here
This is where I scream from
Yeah, you can take it all and work it out, yes
There's a little bit of you in all this
You can say the only thing you know, yeah
oh, Please, there's a better bit of me to see yet,
'Cause you haven't see any of my best
Know I hate myself without you now, yeah
Hurts to see, but nobody knows,
Guess that's just how it goes
And I, I won't say anything at all
(I-I-I-Iiii)
This is the hook, take it like I took
I'm shaking like I shook before
And I'm a little better off
I'm not the only one
This is where I stopped before
And now you have a piece of me
I always slip away from
I always slip away from
I won't say anything, but
Yeah, you can take it all and work it out, yes
There's a little bit of you in all this
You can say the only thing you know, yeah
Please, there's a better bit of me to see yet,
'Cause you haven't see any of my best
Know I hate myself
Hurts to see, when nobody knows,
Guess that's just how it goes
And I, I won't say anything at all
I won't say anything at all
I won't say anything at all
Lyrics submitted by chasing_cars, edited by piecexo
Say Anything Lyrics as written by Louis Biancaniello Matthew Bair
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Downtown Music Publishing
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I could be totally off here...but does anyone think maybe in the first line he says "trick" and not "trip"
"I never took you for a trick but sometimes I don't know what you want"
Like, trick as in a tease, or a girl who fucks with your mind, as if she's teasing him and he doesnt know what she wants.
Just a thought