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"
We run like it kills us to stay
If judged I'd be nothing 'til the day that I stopped you
As trite as these things might seem to anyone else
I wrote them down to document
My worth is you
Excessive city, we can't afford to stay
But home to the sane, somehow safe now
We can't afford to leave
Transformation and tragedy leads conclusion
Our world marches to drums of death
You're my rest. The stories will sleep
Say goodnight to them
You know it's ending
Slow my mind
Silence untruth
Take my broken hands
Watch the world renew
The stories read of hospitals and alcohol and empty households
The bars were steeped in honesty while your retreat was east of me
The buildings fell on everything and everyone was incoherent
Our time is now. We're leaving
You're my death I'm your disease
Together we will bleed
Devotedly concede
La La La La La La La La
Take my broken hand
We'll watch it all ending
If judged I'd be nothing 'til the day that I stopped you
As trite as these things might seem to anyone else
I wrote them down to document
My worth is you
Excessive city, we can't afford to stay
But home to the sane, somehow safe now
We can't afford to leave
Transformation and tragedy leads conclusion
Our world marches to drums of death
You're my rest. The stories will sleep
Say goodnight to them
You know it's ending
Slow my mind
Silence untruth
Take my broken hands
Watch the world renew
The stories read of hospitals and alcohol and empty households
The bars were steeped in honesty while your retreat was east of me
The buildings fell on everything and everyone was incoherent
Our time is now. We're leaving
You're my death I'm your disease
Together we will bleed
Devotedly concede
La La La La La La La La
Take my broken hand
We'll watch it all ending
Lyrics submitted by MizunoPunk
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the first verse begins with joey talking about how responsible he feels and felt for derrick. he knows a lot of people won't understand him, but he says it anyway so history will always know how much he cared about his friend.
the place where they live isn't good for them, emotionally or financially, but it's what they know and it's safe, and if they left things might be worse, so they settle for the same.
joey's world is consumed by the death of his friend, and the only time he can stop thinking about it is when he sleeps. he also cites sleeping as an escape in the passenger. at the same time, he dreams of his friend coming back to life and things restoring themselves back to good.
he then quickly summarizes what happened (the stories). in the end, everything collapsed (with a suspicious allusion to the twin towers falling, another issue dealt with in the passenger).
in the end, he begs for someone to help him, but not to change things, but rather just accept for what they are.
a super mature song but one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
he thinks derrick will be the death of him, and he may suffer the same fate, or at least enter the same depression derrick suffered from.
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maybe the best song on the album. what a haunting feel this song has. easily the best bad astronaut record. thank you joey.
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don't know what i was on when i came up with this interpretation, but this is pretty out there... this song is more likely about friends that have been lost and the memories of dealing with their fall.... but i don't really know.<br /> <br /> the lyrics in general are about losing somebody you love, and the imagery can mean different things to different people. that's what i love most about caper's song writing - it's so personal yet so universal and there's always an underlying theme of empathy and integrity.<br /> <br /> amazing song