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"
Let me hear you say: "hey, hey, hey" (Hey, hey, hey)
All right, now let me hear you say: "hey, hey, ho" (Hey, hey, hey)
I hate it when a guy doesn't get the door
Even though I told him yesterday and the day before
I hate it when a guy doesn't get the tab
And I have to pull my money out, and that looks bad
Where are the hopes, where are the dreams
My Cinderella story scene?
When do you think they'll finally see
That you're not, not, not gonna get any better
You won't, won't, won't, you won't get rid of me never
Like it or not, even though she's a lot like me
We're not the same
And, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a lot to handle
You don't know trouble, I'm a hell of a scandal
Me, I'm a scene, I'm a drama queen
I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen
All right, all right
Yeah
I hate it when a guy doesn't understand
Why a certain time of month I don't want to hold his hand
I hate it when they go out, and we stay in
And they come home smelling like their ex-girlfriend
But I found my hopes, I found my dreams
My Cinderella story scene
Now everybody's gonna see
That you're not, not, not gonna get any better
You won't, won't, won't, you won't get rid of me never
Like it or not, even though she's a lot like me
We're not the same
And, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a lot to handle
You don't know trouble, I'm a hell of a scandal
Me, I'm a scene, I'm a drama queen
I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen
Give me an A, always give me what I want
Give me a V, be very, very good to me
R, are you gonna treat me right?
I, I can put up a fight
Give me an L, let me hear you scream loud (let me hear you scream loud)
One, two, three, four
Where are the hopes, where are the dreams
My Cinderella story scene?
When do you think they'll finally see
That you're not, not, not gonna get any better
You won't, won't, won't, you won't get rid of me never
Like it or not, even though she's a lot like me
We're not the same
And, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a lot to handle
You don't know trouble, I'm a hell of a scandal
Me, I'm a scene, I'm a drama queen
I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen
Let me hear you say: "hey, hey, hey" (Hey, hey, hey)
All right, now let me hear you say: "hey, hey, hey" (Hey, hey, hey)
(Hey, hey, hey)
(Hey, hey, hey)
(Hey, hey, hey)
(Hey, hey, hey)
I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen
All right, now let me hear you say: "hey, hey, ho" (Hey, hey, hey)
I hate it when a guy doesn't get the door
Even though I told him yesterday and the day before
I hate it when a guy doesn't get the tab
And I have to pull my money out, and that looks bad
Where are the hopes, where are the dreams
My Cinderella story scene?
When do you think they'll finally see
That you're not, not, not gonna get any better
You won't, won't, won't, you won't get rid of me never
Like it or not, even though she's a lot like me
We're not the same
And, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a lot to handle
You don't know trouble, I'm a hell of a scandal
Me, I'm a scene, I'm a drama queen
I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen
All right, all right
Yeah
I hate it when a guy doesn't understand
Why a certain time of month I don't want to hold his hand
I hate it when they go out, and we stay in
And they come home smelling like their ex-girlfriend
But I found my hopes, I found my dreams
My Cinderella story scene
Now everybody's gonna see
That you're not, not, not gonna get any better
You won't, won't, won't, you won't get rid of me never
Like it or not, even though she's a lot like me
We're not the same
And, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a lot to handle
You don't know trouble, I'm a hell of a scandal
Me, I'm a scene, I'm a drama queen
I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen
Give me an A, always give me what I want
Give me a V, be very, very good to me
R, are you gonna treat me right?
I, I can put up a fight
Give me an L, let me hear you scream loud (let me hear you scream loud)
One, two, three, four
Where are the hopes, where are the dreams
My Cinderella story scene?
When do you think they'll finally see
That you're not, not, not gonna get any better
You won't, won't, won't, you won't get rid of me never
Like it or not, even though she's a lot like me
We're not the same
And, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a lot to handle
You don't know trouble, I'm a hell of a scandal
Me, I'm a scene, I'm a drama queen
I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen
Let me hear you say: "hey, hey, hey" (Hey, hey, hey)
All right, now let me hear you say: "hey, hey, hey" (Hey, hey, hey)
(Hey, hey, hey)
(Hey, hey, hey)
(Hey, hey, hey)
(Hey, hey, hey)
I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen
Lyrics submitted by bleu_ice2002
The Best Damn Thing Lyrics as written by Butch Walker Avril Ramona Lavigne
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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this song is my new guillty pleasure =X
you suck too choco cookie. britney spears is also stupid. But Avril, KICKASS!!!
For a bit there I thought that this song was sarcastic but unfortunately it seems it isn't. If it was sarcastic it would be awesome
to the pathetic haters out there
SHUT THE FUCK UP if you hate avril's music, we dont' give a shit about you insecure fools!!!
my question is can you write a better song than her songs?? go answer me i'll wait!!!
don't you realize that she's amazing since 2001, all her songs are amazing and has metaphor in her lyrics!!! go listen to your shitty bands and leave avril alone!!!
i totally agree with limoncello182. What's the point of commenting on a song you don't even fucking like? What's it gonna do? You aren't even mentioning the proper meaning of the song, just slamming it. Jeez. And Avril is all about girl power! She's not about girl's getting treated like grass and stepped on, she's about telling boys that they CANT step on her like grass. The Best Damn Thing is pretty awesome, too, if you think of it in the way how she's telling a guy that she's been in love with for a long time that she's the best damn thing he'll ever see, because he's - sorry if i get all old skool on you or anything - attraacted to her and same way back. easy.
I LOVE THIS CANT WAIT TO HEAR IT!
hahahahaha oh man avril, i am so loving this, it's great.
Every song has Hey Hey in it somewhere. I like the CD, but somehow i think she 'could do better'
Wow! This is kinda strange! I'm gonna feel really awkward for mentioning this; but no one has actually tried to describe this song yet. Yay! i get to be the first to take a shot at it...
This sounds like one of them High School girls who gets whatever they want whenever they want! You know, a cheerleader, perfect body, popular, feels like her life is better than everyone eles, and takes her looks for granted. Basiclly THE BEST DAMN THING that we've ever seen. This song is probabily about one of those kind of girls having a boyfriend that she stole from someone eles. However, the guy probabily doesn't wanna be with her, and her responce to that is... "I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen"
Overall, my thoughts on the song were 'this would be a perfect song for the movie: Mean Girls.' Lol
lol i agree with lonelyemoboy
tho to me it kinda sounds like a run off of girlfriend for some reason, just the same type of sound i guess.