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"
Just another girl with a dream in her heart
Wanna make a new start with a fire inside of her
She had to go
She couldn't stay around, everybody let her down
Stole the light and the life and the child inside of her
She's so alone
Running for the train, take her far away
From everything she knows and the way they make her feel
She leaves today
Never look back, never lose track, already strong
She's seen too much at seventeen
The past will fade
With the future that she craves
Carolyna you travel so far
Trying to escape the pain
Start again where you are
Carolyna you keep following your star
Nobody said you're beautiful
You're beautiful the way you are
Finally you're free where you long to be
But it won't take long till it hits reality
The streets are cold
Big, bad city gonna eat you up
Hard to survive, hard to keep your sanity
Still feeling low
But she's never going home
Carolyna you travel so far
Trying to escape the pain
Start again where you are
Carolyna you keep following your star
Nobody said you're beautiful
You're beautiful the way you are
(You're beautiful, You're beautiful)
(You're beautiful, You're beautiful)
(You're beautiful, You're beautiful)
(You're beautiful, You're beautiful)
She tries to rest
All she needs is a warm caress
All she wants is happiness
Carolyna you travel so far
Trying to escape the pain
Start again where you are
Carolyna you keep following your star
Nobody said you're beautiful
You're beautiful the way you are
Carolyna you travel so far (so beautiful)
You're trying to escape the pain (the way you are)
Start again where you are
Carolyna you keep following your star (so beautiful)
Nobody said you're beautiful (the way you are)
You're beautiful the way you are
Carolyna …
Wanna make a new start with a fire inside of her
She had to go
She couldn't stay around, everybody let her down
Stole the light and the life and the child inside of her
She's so alone
Running for the train, take her far away
From everything she knows and the way they make her feel
She leaves today
Never look back, never lose track, already strong
She's seen too much at seventeen
The past will fade
With the future that she craves
Carolyna you travel so far
Trying to escape the pain
Start again where you are
Carolyna you keep following your star
Nobody said you're beautiful
You're beautiful the way you are
Finally you're free where you long to be
But it won't take long till it hits reality
The streets are cold
Big, bad city gonna eat you up
Hard to survive, hard to keep your sanity
Still feeling low
But she's never going home
Carolyna you travel so far
Trying to escape the pain
Start again where you are
Carolyna you keep following your star
Nobody said you're beautiful
You're beautiful the way you are
(You're beautiful, You're beautiful)
(You're beautiful, You're beautiful)
(You're beautiful, You're beautiful)
(You're beautiful, You're beautiful)
She tries to rest
All she needs is a warm caress
All she wants is happiness
Carolyna you travel so far
Trying to escape the pain
Start again where you are
Carolyna you keep following your star
Nobody said you're beautiful
You're beautiful the way you are
Carolyna you travel so far (so beautiful)
You're trying to escape the pain (the way you are)
Start again where you are
Carolyna you keep following your star (so beautiful)
Nobody said you're beautiful (the way you are)
You're beautiful the way you are
Carolyna …
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Carolyna Lyrics as written by Melanie Chisholm Giordano Trivellato
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This song really hits me though the artist is like :| anyway , i love the part:
"Nobody said you’re beautiful You’re beautiful the way you are"
thats amazing.
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