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"
You talk too much
Maybe that's your way of breaking up the silence
That fills you up but it doesn't sound the same
When no one's really listening
We stumble into our lives
Reach for a hand to hold
Any wonder we need to find
A certain something certain
Turn out the light and what are you left with
Open up my hands and find out they're empty
Press my face to the ground , I've got to find a reason
Just scratching around for something to believe in
Something to believe in
You have too much
And spending all your time collecting and discovering
It's not enough and no matter how you try
You'll never find the one you want
We stumble into our lives
Without a hand to hold
And we wonder we need to find
A certain something certain
Cut out the light and what are you left with?
Open up my hands and find out they're empty, oh
Press my face to the ground, I'm gonna find a reason
Still scratching around for something to believe in
Something to believe in
Something I can believe in
Something I can believe in, come on I need it
Something I can believe in now, come on I need it
Something I can believe in, come on I need it, ooh
Something I can believe in, come on I need it, ooh, oh
Right on, right now, right on, right now
I just need something to believe in
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Maybe that's your way of breaking up the silence
That fills you up but it doesn't sound the same
When no one's really listening
We stumble into our lives
Reach for a hand to hold
Any wonder we need to find
A certain something certain
Turn out the light and what are you left with
Open up my hands and find out they're empty
Press my face to the ground , I've got to find a reason
Just scratching around for something to believe in
Something to believe in
You have too much
And spending all your time collecting and discovering
It's not enough and no matter how you try
You'll never find the one you want
We stumble into our lives
Without a hand to hold
And we wonder we need to find
A certain something certain
Cut out the light and what are you left with?
Open up my hands and find out they're empty, oh
Press my face to the ground, I'm gonna find a reason
Still scratching around for something to believe in
Something to believe in
Something I can believe in
Something I can believe in, come on I need it
Something I can believe in now, come on I need it
Something I can believe in, come on I need it, ooh
Something I can believe in, come on I need it, ooh, oh
Right on, right now, right on, right now
I just need something to believe in
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Lyrics submitted by MasterGracey
Something to Believe In Lyrics as written by Matthew Hales Kim Oliver
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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