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"
Bang, where we going, what we doing this night
I feel drunk already, maybe drink got spiked
But more like the other like that I'm just a lightweight
But I don't care, man, I been drunk forever I sedated
Hatred, I sedated, pages, I sedated
Worthwhile cages, stages, and all of my rage
This is a good time to start dancing to this song man
The good one, DJ, play that record of mine
So where be joey, get us a drink of dimple whiskey
Look at the lady she be shady but we maybe
What you doing where you going to their after?
She said get the fuck out man you seem to be so plastered
We been all the night kicking and staring at girls alike
It's all good man what goes on?
Drink your can, walkin' it drunk down the strand
And talk about how we missed the whole club queue
Who the fuck are you?
It's heavy, it's on my mind
You just says you feel just fine
Rackin and stackin them lines
I say, calm down dearest
It's heavy, it's on my mind
You says you feel just fine
Rackin' and stackin' your lines
I say, calm down dearest
I remember shootin' shit down down the old alleyways
Talking tragedies and music like old holiday
I remember what we're doing then but I don't remember now
It's the past, it's the future
I don't know how to carry on through the rights and wrongs
Kick it like we know the songs already
Before we rock steady down and on the dancefloor
And I don't get no fights when I get angry drunk
Sit down in the corner, man, I'll soak my fuckin' socks off
So who the fuck are we just the boys in the city
It's all been done before and we'll do it again so
We'll see you later you alligators
We'll be back I'm sure next week and sit in the bar you know
So good bye, bye we'll try never to die but
We are so young we don't understand if we cannot fly
So we're here now but we'll be gone soon
Not today, not tomorrow, not the next two
Heavy, it's on my mind
You says you feel just fine
Rackin' and stackin' them lines
I say, calm down dearest
It's Heavy, it's on my mind
You says you feel just fine
Rackin' and stackin' your lines
I say, calm down dearest
It's Heavy, it's on my mind
You says you feel just fine
Rackin' and stackin' your lines
I say, calm down dearest
It's Heavy, it's on my mind
You says you feel just fine
Rackin' and stacki'n your lines
I say, calm down dearest
I feel drunk already, maybe drink got spiked
But more like the other like that I'm just a lightweight
But I don't care, man, I been drunk forever I sedated
Hatred, I sedated, pages, I sedated
Worthwhile cages, stages, and all of my rage
This is a good time to start dancing to this song man
The good one, DJ, play that record of mine
So where be joey, get us a drink of dimple whiskey
Look at the lady she be shady but we maybe
What you doing where you going to their after?
She said get the fuck out man you seem to be so plastered
We been all the night kicking and staring at girls alike
It's all good man what goes on?
Drink your can, walkin' it drunk down the strand
And talk about how we missed the whole club queue
Who the fuck are you?
It's heavy, it's on my mind
You just says you feel just fine
Rackin and stackin them lines
I say, calm down dearest
It's heavy, it's on my mind
You says you feel just fine
Rackin' and stackin' your lines
I say, calm down dearest
I remember shootin' shit down down the old alleyways
Talking tragedies and music like old holiday
I remember what we're doing then but I don't remember now
It's the past, it's the future
I don't know how to carry on through the rights and wrongs
Kick it like we know the songs already
Before we rock steady down and on the dancefloor
And I don't get no fights when I get angry drunk
Sit down in the corner, man, I'll soak my fuckin' socks off
So who the fuck are we just the boys in the city
It's all been done before and we'll do it again so
We'll see you later you alligators
We'll be back I'm sure next week and sit in the bar you know
So good bye, bye we'll try never to die but
We are so young we don't understand if we cannot fly
So we're here now but we'll be gone soon
Not today, not tomorrow, not the next two
Heavy, it's on my mind
You says you feel just fine
Rackin' and stackin' them lines
I say, calm down dearest
It's Heavy, it's on my mind
You says you feel just fine
Rackin' and stackin' your lines
I say, calm down dearest
It's Heavy, it's on my mind
You says you feel just fine
Rackin' and stackin' your lines
I say, calm down dearest
It's Heavy, it's on my mind
You says you feel just fine
Rackin' and stacki'n your lines
I say, calm down dearest
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Calm Down Dearest Lyrics as written by Jamie Alexander Treays
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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the meaning i've always gotten from this song is like when you have some big problem on your mind and you get drunk to try to forget about it, but even though it works for the most part the shitty feeling keeps coming back to you which is like the chorus i dunno but when he says: I've sedated hatred I've sedated pages I've sedated worthwhile cages stages and all of my rage it sort of suggests that he's getting drunk to forget his problems and i think maybe the chorus is like him talking to himself but that's a theory i just came up with so i dunno
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