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"
Your pedestal is falling down, falling down, falling down
Your pedestal is falling down, da da da da da da da da da da
Record sales are on the mark
'Cause that's about the time the rumors start
Where all the people talking out of their ass
Well, someone's gotta school ya 'cause ya got no class
Well, I've paid my dues
I'm a seasoned dame
So why you gotta throw salt in my game?
You hide behind the computer screens so that you don't have to be seen
How could a person be so mean?
Who are you, and what do you do
That makes you think you're above me?
But have you walked in my shoes?
The pedestal
You put yourself on
Well, since I'm breaking it down now
It's gon' collapse and be gone, gone
(Gone, gone, gone)
(Gone, gone, gone, gone)
Probably one of them tag-a-longs
Down for the free t-shirt 'cause you're a hanger-on
You think you got me figured out
Never met me, have no clue what I'm about
Maybe I got things you wish you had
You need to stop the hate and get a pen and pad
I work around the clock, so fill your mouth up with a sock
And get yo' head up off your jock
Tell me who you are and what your background is
Tell me how you're feelin' when you listen to this
Who are you, and what do you do
That makes you think you're above me?
But have you walked in my shoes?
The pedestal
You put yourself on
Well, since I'm breaking it down now
It's gon' collapse and be gone, gone
Your pedestal is falling down, falling down, falling down
Your pedestal is falling down, dum dum dum dum
Your pedestal is falling down, falling down, falling down
Your pedestal is falling down, da da da da da da da da da da da
Tell me who you are and what your background is
Tell me how you're feelin' when you listen to this
You think I don't see you on the Internet
I read it; don't think I won't forget
Who are you, and what do you do
That makes you think you're above me?
But have you walked in my shoes?
The pedestal
You put yourself on
Well, since I'm breaking it down now
It's gon' collapse and be gone, gone
Who are you, and what do you do
That makes you think you're above me?
But have you walked in my shoes?
The pedestal
You put yourself on
Well, since I'm breaking it down now
It's gon' collapse and be gone, gone
Your pedestal is falling down, da da da da da da da da da da
Record sales are on the mark
'Cause that's about the time the rumors start
Where all the people talking out of their ass
Well, someone's gotta school ya 'cause ya got no class
Well, I've paid my dues
I'm a seasoned dame
So why you gotta throw salt in my game?
You hide behind the computer screens so that you don't have to be seen
How could a person be so mean?
Who are you, and what do you do
That makes you think you're above me?
But have you walked in my shoes?
The pedestal
You put yourself on
Well, since I'm breaking it down now
It's gon' collapse and be gone, gone
(Gone, gone, gone)
(Gone, gone, gone, gone)
Probably one of them tag-a-longs
Down for the free t-shirt 'cause you're a hanger-on
You think you got me figured out
Never met me, have no clue what I'm about
Maybe I got things you wish you had
You need to stop the hate and get a pen and pad
I work around the clock, so fill your mouth up with a sock
And get yo' head up off your jock
Tell me who you are and what your background is
Tell me how you're feelin' when you listen to this
Who are you, and what do you do
That makes you think you're above me?
But have you walked in my shoes?
The pedestal
You put yourself on
Well, since I'm breaking it down now
It's gon' collapse and be gone, gone
Your pedestal is falling down, falling down, falling down
Your pedestal is falling down, dum dum dum dum
Your pedestal is falling down, falling down, falling down
Your pedestal is falling down, da da da da da da da da da da da
Tell me who you are and what your background is
Tell me how you're feelin' when you listen to this
You think I don't see you on the Internet
I read it; don't think I won't forget
Who are you, and what do you do
That makes you think you're above me?
But have you walked in my shoes?
The pedestal
You put yourself on
Well, since I'm breaking it down now
It's gon' collapse and be gone, gone
Who are you, and what do you do
That makes you think you're above me?
But have you walked in my shoes?
The pedestal
You put yourself on
Well, since I'm breaking it down now
It's gon' collapse and be gone, gone
Lyrics submitted by kmk_natasha
Pedestal Lyrics as written by Stacy Ferguson Printz Board
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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