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"
Love don't come so easily
This doesn't have to end in tragedy
I have you and you have me
We're one and a million
Why can't you see?
I'm waitin', waitin' for nothin'
You're leavin', leavin' me hangin'
When did your heart go missin'?
When did your heart go missin'?
I treat you like a princess
But your life is just one big mess
When did your heart go missin'?
When did your heart go missin'?
Yeah
I meant every word I said
I never was lyin' when we talked in bed
I'm retracin' every step in my head
What did I miss back then?
I was so, so misled
I'm waitin', waitin' for nothin'
You're leavin', leavin' me hangin'
When did your heart go missin'?
When did your heart go missin'?
I treat you like a princess
But your life is just one big mess
When did your heart go missin'?
When did your heart go missin'?
I don't understand
How could you forget what we had?
It's so wrong
I'm waitin', waitin' for nothin'
You're leavin', leavin' me hangin'
When did your heart go missin'?
When did your heart go missin'?
I treat you like a princess
But your life is just one big mess
When did your heart go missin'?
When did your heart go missin'?
Things were so good
We had a little dream
A little dream together
Buy a house, settle down, do our thing
But you disappeared on me
And your heart, your heart went missin'
I don't know how to find it, I don't know where it is
I don't know where your heart went
It was here just the other day
Now it's gone
I'm gonna call the police
Call the investigator, the heart investigator
This doesn't have to end in tragedy
I have you and you have me
We're one and a million
Why can't you see?
I'm waitin', waitin' for nothin'
You're leavin', leavin' me hangin'
When did your heart go missin'?
When did your heart go missin'?
I treat you like a princess
But your life is just one big mess
When did your heart go missin'?
When did your heart go missin'?
Yeah
I meant every word I said
I never was lyin' when we talked in bed
I'm retracin' every step in my head
What did I miss back then?
I was so, so misled
I'm waitin', waitin' for nothin'
You're leavin', leavin' me hangin'
When did your heart go missin'?
When did your heart go missin'?
I treat you like a princess
But your life is just one big mess
When did your heart go missin'?
When did your heart go missin'?
I don't understand
How could you forget what we had?
It's so wrong
I'm waitin', waitin' for nothin'
You're leavin', leavin' me hangin'
When did your heart go missin'?
When did your heart go missin'?
I treat you like a princess
But your life is just one big mess
When did your heart go missin'?
When did your heart go missin'?
Things were so good
We had a little dream
A little dream together
Buy a house, settle down, do our thing
But you disappeared on me
And your heart, your heart went missin'
I don't know how to find it, I don't know where it is
I don't know where your heart went
It was here just the other day
Now it's gone
I'm gonna call the police
Call the investigator, the heart investigator
Lyrics submitted by lime_records
When Did Your Heart Go Missing? Lyrics as written by Robert Schwartzman
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Don't analyze the lyrics? Your on the wrong site, shannonmoorepop. Anyway I think its about someone wondering when things went wrong in his relationship
i
LOVE
this
Song!
it's about a guy whos realtionship is going down the drain, and he's wondering where it went wrong.
it's phisically impossible not to dance to this song.
and i agree with agirlnamedgoo, the best line is
"I treat you a likea princess, but your life is just one big mess."
:DDD
This song is bouncy and awesome! You cant help but bob your head and shake your shoulders :)
"I treat you like a princess But your life is just one big mess"
That's my fave line!
omg you made me laugh because thats so true....(listening to it as we speak) and i was just shaking my shoulders XD
basically a girl who isnt appreciative.... one sided relationship lost interest/infatuation
"i dont understand, how could you forget?"
thats my favorite line. :D
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I agree, Latenights! I first heard this song on Late Night With Conan O Brien, and it stuck. So I downloaded it, and as I'm listening to it, Im thinking that this sounds like a Beach Boys song or something. I know theyre not the 80's, but I still love it. The feel is great.
OMAHSASHHHH I LOVE THIS SONGG! its so catchy & it gets stuck in your head :D
amazing songgggg
"the heart investigation team" hhaha