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"
Hollywood Hills
Pocketful of shells
Sunset drag
I haven't even slept for days
Zone in
Something's gotta give
Might as well live it up
Until the fat lady sings
You want it
You got it
It's everything you dreamed of
'Cause I just wanna be famous
Be so fucking jaded
'Cause all the Playboy bunnies take my money from me
Show up at the Oscars
Forgot Dennis Hopper
The money is for nothing
And the chicks are for free
Yeah, I wanna be...
You can sleep all day
And still get paid
When the sun goes down
We'll do it all over again
'Cause when you're on a roll
They gotta let you go
Right through the back door
Let the games begin
You want it
You got it
It's everything you dreamed of
'Cause I just wanna be famous
Be so fucking jaded
'Cause all the Playboy bunnies take my money from me
Show up at the Oscars
Forgot Dennis Hopper
The money is for nothing
And the chicks are for free
Yeah, I wanna be...
I hope that it's everything that you dreamed about
Be careful what you wish for
Hope that it's everything that you dreamed
When everything's falling apart at the seams
And I know that you never believed in me
Don't ever let them fuck with your dreams
You want it
You got it
It's everything you dreamed of
'Cause I just wanna be famous
Be so fucking jaded
'Cause all the Playboy bunnies take my money from me
Show up at the Oscars
Forgot Dennis Hopper
The money is for nothing
And the chicks are for free
Yeah, I wanna be...
I just wanna be famous
'Cause fame is contagious
Now all the Playboy bunnies want more money from me
Show up at the Grammys
So loaded they ban me
The money is for nothing
And the chicks are for free
Yeah, I wanna be...
Yeah, I wanna be famous
Pocketful of shells
Sunset drag
I haven't even slept for days
Zone in
Something's gotta give
Might as well live it up
Until the fat lady sings
You want it
You got it
It's everything you dreamed of
'Cause I just wanna be famous
Be so fucking jaded
'Cause all the Playboy bunnies take my money from me
Show up at the Oscars
Forgot Dennis Hopper
The money is for nothing
And the chicks are for free
Yeah, I wanna be...
You can sleep all day
And still get paid
When the sun goes down
We'll do it all over again
'Cause when you're on a roll
They gotta let you go
Right through the back door
Let the games begin
You want it
You got it
It's everything you dreamed of
'Cause I just wanna be famous
Be so fucking jaded
'Cause all the Playboy bunnies take my money from me
Show up at the Oscars
Forgot Dennis Hopper
The money is for nothing
And the chicks are for free
Yeah, I wanna be...
I hope that it's everything that you dreamed about
Be careful what you wish for
Hope that it's everything that you dreamed
When everything's falling apart at the seams
And I know that you never believed in me
Don't ever let them fuck with your dreams
You want it
You got it
It's everything you dreamed of
'Cause I just wanna be famous
Be so fucking jaded
'Cause all the Playboy bunnies take my money from me
Show up at the Oscars
Forgot Dennis Hopper
The money is for nothing
And the chicks are for free
Yeah, I wanna be...
I just wanna be famous
'Cause fame is contagious
Now all the Playboy bunnies want more money from me
Show up at the Grammys
So loaded they ban me
The money is for nothing
And the chicks are for free
Yeah, I wanna be...
Yeah, I wanna be famous
Lyrics submitted by Blackjack13
Famous [Album Version] Lyrics as written by Doug Ardito Wesley Scantlin
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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