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"
Well, the morning was complete
Where there was tears on the steering wheel, dripping on the seat
Several hours or several weeks
I'd have the cheek to say they're equally as bleak
It's the beginning of the end
The car went up the hill and disappeared around the bend
Ask anyone, they'll tell you
That it's these times that it tends
To start to break in half, to start to fall apart
Hold on to your heart
And do me a favor and break my nose
Or do me a favor and tell me to go away
Or do me a favor and stop asking questions
Well, she walked away while her shoes were untied
When the eyes were all red
You could see that we'd cried
And I watched, and I waited 'til she was inside
Forcing a smile and waving goodbye
Curiosity becomes a heavy load
Too heavy to hold, too heavy to hold
Curiosity becomes a heavy load
Too heavy to hold, will force you to be cold
And do me a favor, and ask, if you need some help
She said, do me a favor, and stop flattering yourself
And to tear apart the ties that bind
Perhaps "fuck off" might be too kind
Perhaps "fuck off" might be too kind
Where there was tears on the steering wheel, dripping on the seat
Several hours or several weeks
I'd have the cheek to say they're equally as bleak
It's the beginning of the end
The car went up the hill and disappeared around the bend
Ask anyone, they'll tell you
That it's these times that it tends
To start to break in half, to start to fall apart
Hold on to your heart
And do me a favor and break my nose
Or do me a favor and tell me to go away
Or do me a favor and stop asking questions
Well, she walked away while her shoes were untied
When the eyes were all red
You could see that we'd cried
And I watched, and I waited 'til she was inside
Forcing a smile and waving goodbye
Curiosity becomes a heavy load
Too heavy to hold, too heavy to hold
Curiosity becomes a heavy load
Too heavy to hold, will force you to be cold
And do me a favor, and ask, if you need some help
She said, do me a favor, and stop flattering yourself
And to tear apart the ties that bind
Perhaps "fuck off" might be too kind
Perhaps "fuck off" might be too kind
Lyrics submitted by dark kirby, edited by Guy0032, ghostyyy, warcelia
Do Me A Favour Lyrics as written by Alex Turner
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i think bueller84 is on the right track. i mean, if he cheated but still wanted to be with her then why would he have to "tear apart the ties that bind", because if she was the one tearing apart the ties, then she wouldn't have forced a smile like she's okay... she'd have walked away and never looked back...And weeks and hours would be just as bleak, because he knows he's going to hurt her.
but i think, he is no longer in love with the girl, or at least is curious to see what else is out there because he isn't necessarily happy in the relationship. She's crying and asking what she did wrong, or why he's ending it. And he's crying because he's hurting her, and even if he no longer loves her, he cares enough not to want to break her heart. That's why he's telling her to ask for help if she gets too sad.
He wants her to yell at him, and break his nose. He wants her to get mad, not sad, but she doesn't because she still loves him. And the more he has to explain to her why he's ending it, the more it hurts her.
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