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"
Jamie: "Shall I bother trying to do it properly?, Okay cool. God, i've got an attitude ain't I? ... I ain't fucking well."
Soft little bunny swallowed by the sun
waiting for a break that he knows will never come. Four brittle limbs weak from underuse and head full of words.
Long green hair, funny looking dude, big mouth frontin' and a wicked attitude, and the first impression's, he might seem kind of rude, but he does his best, yea-hea-ah.
Anyway, anyway, anyway
I wanna be, just like you
Get myself a job, and a really cool tattoo
I wanna be, just like you
Get myself a job, and a really cool tattoo
I'm walking home, beside you
Hair is long and blonde and your eyes are both bright blue.
I wanna be, just like you in all I do.
Jimmy got drunk, on his way to class, swinging from the roof, showed everyone his ass, and if you ask him why, he shakes his head and laughs, there was nothing for it.
Stacy got laid, boyfriend number one, took him to a room, and had a little fun
she's wearing out her voice, she's telling everyone, and you can't ignore it
Anyway, anyway, anyway
I wanna be, just like you
Get myself a job, and a really cool tattoo
I wanna be, just like you
Get myself a job, and a really cool tattoo
I'm walking home, beside you
Hair is long and blonde and your eyes are both bright blue.
I wanna be, just like you
Get myself a job, and a really cool tattoo, a really cool tattoo, a really cool tattoo, a really cool tattoo, "DON'T TAKE IT SO HARD" a really cool tattoo, "DON'T TAKE IT SO HARD" a really cool tattoo, "DON'T TAKE IT SO" a really cool tattoo, "DON'T TAKE IT TO HEART" a really cool tattoo "DON'T TAKE IT".
Don't take it so hard, don't take it so hard, it is only cause I like you, you are everything I wish I could be, maybe if I'm like you, baby would you like me?
You're dressed, like a victorian at a swimming pool, you're dressed, like a victorian at a swimming pool, you're dressed, like a victorian at a swimming pool, you're dressed, like a victorian at a swimming pool, you're dressed, like a victorian at a swimming pool, all in black.
"YES!!"
"GUITARS ARE REALLY GOOD SOMETIMES!!"
"YEAAHH!!"
And I want to be just like you, yeah
I want to be just like you, yeah
I want to be just like you, yeah
I WANNA BE JUST LIKE YOU, GET MYSELF A JOB AND A REALLY COOL TATTOO
I want to be just like you, yeah
I want to be just like you, yeah
I WANNA BE JUST LIKE YOU, GET MYSELF A JOB AND A REALLY COOL TATTOO
I want to be just like you, yeah
I want to be just like you, yeah
I WANNA BE JUST LIKE YOU, GET MYSELF A JOB AND A REALLY COOL TATTOO
I want to be just like you, yeah
I want to be just like you, yeah
YEAH
I want to be just like you, yeah
I want to be just like you, yeah
"I WANNA BE JUST LIKE YOU, GET MYSELF A JOB AND A REALLY COOL TATTOO"
I want to be just like you, yeah
I want to be just like you, yeah
"AND I MADE YOU TRENT REZNOR, SPINNING ON HIS BACK WITH A MOTORISED ACTION
YOU MADE ME, A RED AND BLACK SCARF, WEAR IT ROUND MY NECK BUT NOT MOTORIZED ACTION
NO MOTORIZED ACTION
NO MOTORIZED ACTION
NO MOTORIZED ACTION.
GO
Soft little bunny swallowed by the sun
waiting for a break that he knows will never come. Four brittle limbs weak from underuse and head full of words.
Long green hair, funny looking dude, big mouth frontin' and a wicked attitude, and the first impression's, he might seem kind of rude, but he does his best, yea-hea-ah.
Anyway, anyway, anyway
I wanna be, just like you
Get myself a job, and a really cool tattoo
I wanna be, just like you
Get myself a job, and a really cool tattoo
I'm walking home, beside you
Hair is long and blonde and your eyes are both bright blue.
I wanna be, just like you in all I do.
Jimmy got drunk, on his way to class, swinging from the roof, showed everyone his ass, and if you ask him why, he shakes his head and laughs, there was nothing for it.
Stacy got laid, boyfriend number one, took him to a room, and had a little fun
she's wearing out her voice, she's telling everyone, and you can't ignore it
Anyway, anyway, anyway
I wanna be, just like you
Get myself a job, and a really cool tattoo
I wanna be, just like you
Get myself a job, and a really cool tattoo
I'm walking home, beside you
Hair is long and blonde and your eyes are both bright blue.
I wanna be, just like you
Get myself a job, and a really cool tattoo, a really cool tattoo, a really cool tattoo, a really cool tattoo, "DON'T TAKE IT SO HARD" a really cool tattoo, "DON'T TAKE IT SO HARD" a really cool tattoo, "DON'T TAKE IT SO" a really cool tattoo, "DON'T TAKE IT TO HEART" a really cool tattoo "DON'T TAKE IT".
Don't take it so hard, don't take it so hard, it is only cause I like you, you are everything I wish I could be, maybe if I'm like you, baby would you like me?
You're dressed, like a victorian at a swimming pool, you're dressed, like a victorian at a swimming pool, you're dressed, like a victorian at a swimming pool, you're dressed, like a victorian at a swimming pool, you're dressed, like a victorian at a swimming pool, all in black.
"YES!!"
"GUITARS ARE REALLY GOOD SOMETIMES!!"
"YEAAHH!!"
And I want to be just like you, yeah
I want to be just like you, yeah
I want to be just like you, yeah
I WANNA BE JUST LIKE YOU, GET MYSELF A JOB AND A REALLY COOL TATTOO
I want to be just like you, yeah
I want to be just like you, yeah
I WANNA BE JUST LIKE YOU, GET MYSELF A JOB AND A REALLY COOL TATTOO
I want to be just like you, yeah
I want to be just like you, yeah
I WANNA BE JUST LIKE YOU, GET MYSELF A JOB AND A REALLY COOL TATTOO
I want to be just like you, yeah
I want to be just like you, yeah
YEAH
I want to be just like you, yeah
I want to be just like you, yeah
"I WANNA BE JUST LIKE YOU, GET MYSELF A JOB AND A REALLY COOL TATTOO"
I want to be just like you, yeah
I want to be just like you, yeah
"AND I MADE YOU TRENT REZNOR, SPINNING ON HIS BACK WITH A MOTORISED ACTION
YOU MADE ME, A RED AND BLACK SCARF, WEAR IT ROUND MY NECK BUT NOT MOTORIZED ACTION
NO MOTORIZED ACTION
NO MOTORIZED ACTION
NO MOTORIZED ACTION.
GO
Lyrics submitted by homiesessual, edited by crackhitler
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