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"
Oh coming second is better than nothing
I'm going to miss you you know
But staying here, I just can't be trusted
And choosing would prove that so
So while I'm taking all the next steps
Making trouble express you are going to live
And whatever this day brings you know I've just gotta sing
And let the road take me there
Cos my way of living is all about giving not taking from somebody's hand
Just step a little closer and we can make the most of whatever the night will bring
But tomorrow when the sun comes beaming through and I start dreaming again
I'm sorry baby, I don't belong to no man
Then the bottle takes me higher than nothing
I've ever felt before
And hell it gets lonely but at least it lets me out it never asks me for more
So while I'm contemplating everything
making us a definite, I get too comfy for size
And as soon as I start falling the road starts a calling and I take the fastest way out
Cos my way of living is all about giving
not taking from somebody's hand
Just step a little closer and we can make the most of whatever the night will bring
But tomorrow when the sun comes beaming through and I start dreaming again
I'm sorry baby, I don't belong to no man
And you give me that look like I'm making the biggest mistake of my life
But the biggest mistake I could ever make would be letting these days pass me by
Letting these days pass me by
Cos my way of living is all about giving
not taking from somebody's hand
I wish I could be different, I can't change a thing
I am what I am
But tomorrow when the sun comes beaming through and I start dreaming again
I'm sorry baby, I'm sorry baby, I'm sorry baby
I don't belong to no man
I'm going to miss you you know
But staying here, I just can't be trusted
And choosing would prove that so
So while I'm taking all the next steps
Making trouble express you are going to live
And whatever this day brings you know I've just gotta sing
And let the road take me there
Cos my way of living is all about giving not taking from somebody's hand
Just step a little closer and we can make the most of whatever the night will bring
But tomorrow when the sun comes beaming through and I start dreaming again
I'm sorry baby, I don't belong to no man
Then the bottle takes me higher than nothing
I've ever felt before
And hell it gets lonely but at least it lets me out it never asks me for more
So while I'm contemplating everything
making us a definite, I get too comfy for size
And as soon as I start falling the road starts a calling and I take the fastest way out
Cos my way of living is all about giving
not taking from somebody's hand
Just step a little closer and we can make the most of whatever the night will bring
But tomorrow when the sun comes beaming through and I start dreaming again
I'm sorry baby, I don't belong to no man
And you give me that look like I'm making the biggest mistake of my life
But the biggest mistake I could ever make would be letting these days pass me by
Letting these days pass me by
Cos my way of living is all about giving
not taking from somebody's hand
I wish I could be different, I can't change a thing
I am what I am
But tomorrow when the sun comes beaming through and I start dreaming again
I'm sorry baby, I'm sorry baby, I'm sorry baby
I don't belong to no man
Lyrics submitted by SarahWalker
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