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"
Bet you got it all planned, right
Bet you never worry, never even feel a fright
Bet you got it all planned, right
Never fit to worry, never even feel a fright
Single sleeps alone and I know you don't really mind
Five years by your side, so I know you really don't mind
But don't you nevah
Be down
I said don't evah
'Cause it's gonna keep him hanging around
Nevah
Be down
I said don't evah
Because it's gonna keep him hanging around
Bet you never think it's right
Bet you think you have to but it doesn't feel right
Bet you never think it feels right
Famous-sounding words make your head feel light
Petals getting picked with the love-yous and the love-you-nots
Five years going by, everyone is staying on their side
But don't you nevah
Be down
I said don't evah
'Cause it's gonna keep him hanging around
Nevah
Be down
I said don't evah
Because it's gonna keep him hanging around
But don't you nevah
Be down
I said don't evah
'Cause it's gonna keep him hanging around
Nevah
Be down
I said don't evah
Because it's gonna keep him hanging around
Five years going by, everyone is staying on their side
Five years going by, everyone is staying on their side
Bet you got it all planned, right
Bet you never worry, never even feel a fright
Bet you got it all planned, right
Never fit to worry, never even feel a fright
Bet you never worry, never even feel a fright
Bet you got it all planned, right
Never fit to worry, never even feel a fright
Single sleeps alone and I know you don't really mind
Five years by your side, so I know you really don't mind
But don't you nevah
Be down
I said don't evah
'Cause it's gonna keep him hanging around
Nevah
Be down
I said don't evah
Because it's gonna keep him hanging around
Bet you never think it's right
Bet you think you have to but it doesn't feel right
Bet you never think it feels right
Famous-sounding words make your head feel light
Petals getting picked with the love-yous and the love-you-nots
Five years going by, everyone is staying on their side
But don't you nevah
Be down
I said don't evah
'Cause it's gonna keep him hanging around
Nevah
Be down
I said don't evah
Because it's gonna keep him hanging around
But don't you nevah
Be down
I said don't evah
'Cause it's gonna keep him hanging around
Nevah
Be down
I said don't evah
Because it's gonna keep him hanging around
Five years going by, everyone is staying on their side
Five years going by, everyone is staying on their side
Bet you got it all planned, right
Bet you never worry, never even feel a fright
Bet you got it all planned, right
Never fit to worry, never even feel a fright
Lyrics submitted by stagger_lee
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just my humble opinion, but i think this song is about someone not wanting to say "i love you" to someone else. evidenced in:
"Bet you got it all planned right Bet you never worry never even feel a fright Bet you got it all planned right Never fit to worry never even feel a fright."
"Single sleeps alone and I know you don't really mind Five years by your side so I know you really don't mind"
"Don't you never think it's right Bet you think you had to but it doesn't feel right Bet you never think it feels right Famous-sounding words make your head feel light"
"Petals getting picked with the love-yous and the love-you-nots"
i dont know. just off the top. enlighten me.
This song perfectly describes a relationship between 2 friends of mine.
See, the girl has been seeing this guy for like 4 years now, and they had planned to stay together forever (Bet you had it all planned, right), but lately their relationship isn't what it used to be, because he's treating her like garbage now which completely destroys her self-confidence.
Because her believe in herself as dropped to point zero, she doesn't have the guts to break up with him (Don't You Evah feel down, I said don't evah, Because it's gonna keep him hanging around). Also, she has told me many times now that being around him just doesn't feel right anymore (Bet you think you have to but it doesn't feel right).
It just describes her situation perfectly.
lol i like the intro, when he keeps telling Jim to "record that"
This song is so tight and catchy, it's almost impossible to focus on the lyrics. The words are just another detail, like the hand claps, the tam, the cascading drum beat, the subtle reverb, the tweaky guitars...and that fat ass bass. If forced to sum it all up in two words?....sex and mystery.
3 people involved. The couple in a comfortable, passionless (but not necessarily loveless) relationship ..but then there is the soulmate waiting patiently...
@sugarwater01 That’s a easy one. Passion, please and thank you.
There's this part in the begining:
"I told you I can't make this play" "Jim, can you record the talk back?" "Record that Jim" "THAT!" "There! Yeah! Jim" "Yeah, that's it" "Jim record that" "Jim, could you record the talk back?" "Beeeeruuu......beeerrruuuu"
Man, if I was Jim I'd be like "STFU!!!! I done heard you tell me the first time!"
correct lyrics:
Petals getting picked with the love-yous and the love-you-nots
I disagree slightly with the other posts.
I think the narrator is friends with this girl who he knows isn't in love with her boyfriend of five years. The whole time she's been with this guy, all her friends have been "staying on their side," not saying anything even though they know she's not fulfilled.
The narrator is trying to get her to think twice about her long term plans for the relationship, since he sees that she isn't really in love. He's saying she shouldn't blindly follow the path she's on.
Referring to her future plans with her boyfriend, like marriage.
The narrator knows she's not afraid of being single or lonely because the narrator has been close to her for five years and thinks he knows her well (or maybe because she's been cheating on her boyfriend with him that whole time and doesn't seem to value her relationship for that reason).
I think he means she shouldn't just go through the motions because her boyfriend says he loves her, as evinced by:
ah, the quotes didn't show up!
gap 1: "bet you got it all planned right"
gap 2: "single sleeps alone and i know you don't really mind. Five years by your side and i know you really don't mind"
gap 3: "never be down"
gap 4: "Bet you think you have to but it doesn't feel right. Bet you never think it feels right. Famous-sounding words make your head feel light"
O ya!! I completely forgot that they sang this. I guess I sorta knew, anyways.. This song is rilly good. I lyke how they mezspill "ever" into "evah" the photetics i guess! love it!