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 watch the skyline change over seamless days
From a topdeck view from the barricades
Where all the rudeboys and crooks wear all wear their meanest looks
Keeping the money making strictly off the books
I watch the kids move in on the underground
With a taste of danger and the realest sound
I watch the yuppies buy in and try to capitalize
On the pain and joy of a furtive mind
Tell me what to do today
Working nine to five, I cannot live like that
Because it seems like this city's geared to breed
Workers just to keep it alive
We get high, we get low
We confess what we know
After all it won't be long till we forget about it all
Amongst this urban debris
We learn to live like kings
And what else can we do
You're lucky if you got someone that cares for you
And don't try to fit in, just assume that you do
Let's get the full picture yeah your point of view
I watch the kids move in on the underground
With a taste of danger and the realest sound
I watch the yuppies buy in and try to capitalize
On the pain and joy of a furtive mind
Tell me what to do today
Working nine to five, I cannot live like that
Because it seems like this city's geared to breed
Workers just to keep it alive
We get high, we get low
We confess what we know
After all it won't be long till we forget about it all
Amongst this urban debris
We learn to live like kings
This is the sound of a thousand dreams
Impossible to overreach
Not because we don't try, but because
we aren't seen
And we don't know the meaning of prosperity
I watch the kids move in on the underground
With a taste of danger and the realest sound
I watch the yuppies buy in and try to capitalize
On the pain and joy of a furtive mind
Tell me what to do today
Working nine to five, I cannot live like that
Because it seems like this city's geared to breed
Workers just to keep it alive
We get high, we get low
We confess what we know
After all it won't be long till we forget about it all
Amongst this urban debris
We learn to live like kings
From a topdeck view from the barricades
Where all the rudeboys and crooks wear all wear their meanest looks
Keeping the money making strictly off the books
I watch the kids move in on the underground
With a taste of danger and the realest sound
I watch the yuppies buy in and try to capitalize
On the pain and joy of a furtive mind
Tell me what to do today
Working nine to five, I cannot live like that
Because it seems like this city's geared to breed
Workers just to keep it alive
We get high, we get low
We confess what we know
After all it won't be long till we forget about it all
Amongst this urban debris
We learn to live like kings
And what else can we do
You're lucky if you got someone that cares for you
And don't try to fit in, just assume that you do
Let's get the full picture yeah your point of view
I watch the kids move in on the underground
With a taste of danger and the realest sound
I watch the yuppies buy in and try to capitalize
On the pain and joy of a furtive mind
Tell me what to do today
Working nine to five, I cannot live like that
Because it seems like this city's geared to breed
Workers just to keep it alive
We get high, we get low
We confess what we know
After all it won't be long till we forget about it all
Amongst this urban debris
We learn to live like kings
This is the sound of a thousand dreams
Impossible to overreach
Not because we don't try, but because
we aren't seen
And we don't know the meaning of prosperity
I watch the kids move in on the underground
With a taste of danger and the realest sound
I watch the yuppies buy in and try to capitalize
On the pain and joy of a furtive mind
Tell me what to do today
Working nine to five, I cannot live like that
Because it seems like this city's geared to breed
Workers just to keep it alive
We get high, we get low
We confess what we know
After all it won't be long till we forget about it all
Amongst this urban debris
We learn to live like kings
Lyrics submitted by punkpirate
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