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'm two cups into my coffee break.
I'm sitting alone in the cafe from the way.
Reading all by myself
Turning my cell off just to breath
And everyone I know just keeps calling me.
And I just need a little time.
Cause I'm overcommiting myself.
I guess this is growing up
I'm sleeping so little these days.
I guess this is growing up
I'm feeling things are about to change
I'm guessing this is growin' up
Yeah I'm growing up.
And my mom hates my guts.
She has every reason to
From all the things I do.
And it breaks me just to know
That I have torn her apart so many times.
So many times
Cause I've overcommitted myself.
I guess this is growing
I'm sleeping so little these days.
I guess this is growing up
I'm feeling things are about to change
I'm guessing this is growin' up
Oh I'm guessing this is growing up
Now I'm done with my coffee break.
I turn on my phone.
Oh that I've grown up
I'm sitting alone in the cafe from the way.
Reading all by myself
Turning my cell off just to breath
And everyone I know just keeps calling me.
And I just need a little time.
Cause I'm overcommiting myself.
I guess this is growing up
I'm sleeping so little these days.
I guess this is growing up
I'm feeling things are about to change
I'm guessing this is growin' up
Yeah I'm growing up.
And my mom hates my guts.
She has every reason to
From all the things I do.
And it breaks me just to know
That I have torn her apart so many times.
So many times
Cause I've overcommitted myself.
I guess this is growing
I'm sleeping so little these days.
I guess this is growing up
I'm feeling things are about to change
I'm guessing this is growin' up
Oh I'm guessing this is growing up
Now I'm done with my coffee break.
I turn on my phone.
Oh that I've grown up
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Coffee Break Lyrics as written by Linda Steelyard David Jeffreys
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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to me "Cause I've overcommitted myself." sounds like "Cause I've overcommit myself" and "Oh that I've grown up" sounds like "Now that I've grown up" these changes go along with the idea that the singer grows up during the song.
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Such an amazing song. He "grows up" from the beginning to the end of the song. It's a great song when you're in the midst of the transition from childhood to adulthood.
this song is awesome.
"Cause I've overcommitted myself. I guess this is growing I’m sleeping so little these days. I guess this is growing up I’m feeling things are about to change I’m guessing this is growin up Oh I’m guessing this is growing up"
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