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 don't wanna be
Part of the problem
I try so hard
To get roughed up
Fists on up
It looks that easy
It looks that way to me
It looks that way to you
But then there's you
Telling me I can
Then there's you
Screaming, "say something"
I want the ocean right now
I want the ocean right now
I get so jealous
That I can't even work
I get so jealous
That I can't even work
There I am in the morning
I don't like what I see
There I am in the morning
I don't like what I see
I don't know how
It's become such a problem
Keep you up all night if I
Try to remain calm
How can they ask
Why I feel so angry
Do you see my problem
If I never explain it
But then there's you
Asking me how long
Say something
It's taking me so long
I want the ocean right now
I want the ocean right now
I get so jealous
That I can't even work
I get so jealous
That I can't even work
I get so jealous
That I can't even work
I get so jealous
That I can't even work
There I am in the morning
I don't like what I see
There I am in the morning
I don't like what I see
Part of the problem
I try so hard
To get roughed up
Fists on up
It looks that easy
It looks that way to me
It looks that way to you
But then there's you
Telling me I can
Then there's you
Screaming, "say something"
I want the ocean right now
I want the ocean right now
I get so jealous
That I can't even work
I get so jealous
That I can't even work
There I am in the morning
I don't like what I see
There I am in the morning
I don't like what I see
I don't know how
It's become such a problem
Keep you up all night if I
Try to remain calm
How can they ask
Why I feel so angry
Do you see my problem
If I never explain it
But then there's you
Asking me how long
Say something
It's taking me so long
I want the ocean right now
I want the ocean right now
I get so jealous
That I can't even work
I get so jealous
That I can't even work
I get so jealous
That I can't even work
I get so jealous
That I can't even work
There I am in the morning
I don't like what I see
There I am in the morning
I don't like what I see
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So Jealous Lyrics as written by Tegan Rain Quin Sara Keirsten Quin
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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neonemo, I don't think person 2 is quiet, I think person 1 is. The "I" of the song.
"I don't know how It's become such a problem Keep you up all night if I Try to remain calm How can they ask Why I feel so angry Do you see my problem If I never explain it But then there's you Asking me how long Say something It's taken me so long"
To me, this is the most beautiful part of the song. I used to get goosebumps everytime at this "Say something". I can also really imagine how the protagonist feels, the "I" person.
"I don't know how It's become such a problem Keep you up all night if I Try to remain calm"
She tries to be calm even if she's angry, but the other person can tell, and then it's that whole situation where the other person is trying to get her to open up but she still wants to remain calm and try to ignore her feelings.
"How can they ask Why I feel so angry Do you see my problem If I never explain it"
I love this part, because it's so often when someone is jealous that the other one is totally oblivious to the reason for this, and this in turn dumbfounds the first person.
"But then there's you Asking me how long Say something It's taken me so long"
I also love this, it so strongly illustrates the personality and feelings of the jealous person, the "I". I'm also that type of person, who totally shuts down when they get angry (which comes with jealousy). "Asking me how long" also shows that the other person really had no idea and is asking how long it's been going on that the first person is feeling like that.
All in all, it's just such a strong verse that illustrates that moment where everything has to be thrown out into the open, and how that goes in bits and pieces and with a lot of coercing if one of the two is one of these people who just tends to keep things in.