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 I swear to god we've been down this road before
The guilt's no good, and it only shames us more
And the truths that we all try to hide,
Are so much clearer when its not our lives
When we don't face the blame
Won't you get on your knees
Believe (have faith) in this lie with us?
But now my body's on the floor and I am calling,
Well I'm calling out to you, can you hear me now?
It's not rebellion,
When you're selling out to an out of fashion salesman
Our promising lives, are full of empty promises
Temptation's falling and calling you home again
Well I'm sorry, if we've let you down
Won't you get on your knees
Believe (have faith) in this lie with us?
But now my body's on the floor and I am calling,
I'm calling out to you, can you hear me now?
Now my body's on the floor and I am crawling,
I'm calling out to you, can you hear me now?
What's wrong, what's wrong, what's wrong
What's wrong, what's wrong, what's wrong
What's wrong, what's wrong, what's wrong
What's wrong, what's wrong, what's wrong
Now my body's on the floor and I am crawling,
I'm crawling out to you, can you hear me now?
Now my body's on the floor and I am crawling,
Now my body's on the floor and I am crawling,
Now my body's on the floor and I am crawling,
Well I'm calling out to you
The guilt's no good, and it only shames us more
And the truths that we all try to hide,
Are so much clearer when its not our lives
When we don't face the blame
Won't you get on your knees
Believe (have faith) in this lie with us?
But now my body's on the floor and I am calling,
Well I'm calling out to you, can you hear me now?
It's not rebellion,
When you're selling out to an out of fashion salesman
Our promising lives, are full of empty promises
Temptation's falling and calling you home again
Well I'm sorry, if we've let you down
Won't you get on your knees
Believe (have faith) in this lie with us?
But now my body's on the floor and I am calling,
I'm calling out to you, can you hear me now?
Now my body's on the floor and I am crawling,
I'm calling out to you, can you hear me now?
What's wrong, what's wrong, what's wrong
What's wrong, what's wrong, what's wrong
What's wrong, what's wrong, what's wrong
What's wrong, what's wrong, what's wrong
Now my body's on the floor and I am crawling,
I'm crawling out to you, can you hear me now?
Now my body's on the floor and I am crawling,
Now my body's on the floor and I am crawling,
Now my body's on the floor and I am crawling,
Well I'm calling out to you
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first an FYI to razr1313... just because a song is titled "hear me now" doesn't mean it has to say it... it does in fact say "can you feel now" in that one part... if you don't believe it then check the lyrics they posted themselves on myspace...
on with the song... although i can see everyone's point on the song being about someone who has reached their limit, i see this song meaning something else...
the song isn't saying "I'VE been down this road" or "i'm sorry I'VE let you down again", it's saying "WE'VE been down this road" and "i'm sorry WE'VE let you down"... i think its talking about one of two things.. its either talking about our generation (generation Y) and how we are looked down upon...
OR it has a bigger meaning... and this is the one i lean towards more... i think this song is a plea to the world in which we live and the people living in it... we are so worried about what other people are doing that we don't care to look at our own lives... and all the world is trying to do is make us believe lie after lie... he is begging (now my body's on the floor and i am calling out to you) the people of the world to change... and even though i know how people get when there is talk of religious conotations in songs but i also think that in parts of the song he is talking to God as well (i'm sorry if we've let you down)... also i think there are two "voices" in the prechorus... one is the world telling you to believe in the lie they are telling you the other voice is saying you need to get on your knees and have faith (obviously) and they seem to be fighting each other... the world wants you to believe that there is no God or higher being to have faith in but you need to believe that because that is your salvation and can be your sanity in this world full of lies and deception...
ps... i have been a fan of these guys since they were just a local band in nashville... WE LOVE OUR NASHVILLE BOYS!!!!!!!!