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"
Secret says she's tired
Secret says she might like today
I'm full of sympathy
That's what she needs from me
I tell my secret a story
Secret says they help her sleep at night
I offer reasoning
When she's not listening
I want us to survive
I dream of ways to make her think
We're happy all the time
I dream all day
Seeing questions all the time
Instead of gazing in her eyes
She's getting tired of things you do
Getting tired of minding you
I know my secret's trying
I know she doesn't have to understand
She lets me lean on her
She acts as counselor
And though we never argue
Secret has a guideline just for me
Pretend we're friends again
Therefore she counts to ten
I want us to survive
I dream of ways to make her think
We're happy all the time
I dream all day
Seeing questions all the time
Instead of gazing in her eyes
She's getting tired of things you do
Getting tired of minding you
While I'm lying alone in bed
Thinking over what she said
She's getting tired of things you do
Getting tired of minding you
I wonder if she'd say
If she was going to leave
Oh Secret likes her game
As much as I like panicking
I want us to survive
I dream of ways to make her think
We're happy all the time
I dream all day
While I"m lying alone in bed
Thinking over what she said
She's getting tired of things you do
Getting tired of minding you
She's getting tired of things you do
Getting tired of minding you
Secret says she might like today
I'm full of sympathy
That's what she needs from me
I tell my secret a story
Secret says they help her sleep at night
I offer reasoning
When she's not listening
I want us to survive
I dream of ways to make her think
We're happy all the time
I dream all day
Seeing questions all the time
Instead of gazing in her eyes
She's getting tired of things you do
Getting tired of minding you
I know my secret's trying
I know she doesn't have to understand
She lets me lean on her
She acts as counselor
And though we never argue
Secret has a guideline just for me
Pretend we're friends again
Therefore she counts to ten
I want us to survive
I dream of ways to make her think
We're happy all the time
I dream all day
Seeing questions all the time
Instead of gazing in her eyes
She's getting tired of things you do
Getting tired of minding you
While I'm lying alone in bed
Thinking over what she said
She's getting tired of things you do
Getting tired of minding you
I wonder if she'd say
If she was going to leave
Oh Secret likes her game
As much as I like panicking
I want us to survive
I dream of ways to make her think
We're happy all the time
I dream all day
While I"m lying alone in bed
Thinking over what she said
She's getting tired of things you do
Getting tired of minding you
She's getting tired of things you do
Getting tired of minding you
Lyrics submitted by Razorlight16
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Is the line "what a line???" not "While I'm lying alone in bed"
the line "a secret???" is "Oh secret likes her game."
the line "getting tired of minding you" is it not actually "tired of knowing you."
thanks for the corrections, but for some reason it's not letting me edit the lyrics. i will as soon as the site stops malfunctioning.
Therefore she counts to ten....thats acctaully BEFORE she counts to ten.
and the If she was ???...the ??? is going to leave. : ) good job though. its a brilliant song
The 2nd line is: 'Secret says she might not last the day' and I think it might be 'before' and not 'therefore she counts to ten' and also, 'while you're lying alone in bed' and 'oh secret likes her games'
I love this song :]