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 all these things I do to you to keep you close to me
And every day’s another day from what we used to be
& I don’t know what I’ve been thinkin’ cause this is much like hell
And it’s days like this I must insist I’m not doin’ so well
Oh no, get lost in you,
Like you know I often do
And I wonder if you’re proud of me
If you can hear me shout at me
I need to kill this doubt in me for good
So help me now to let you go
Think about these last 10 years and what they’ve done to me
& I don’t think its worth it cause its just not fun to me
what if I just kill myself and we never spoke again
would you make your way back through the darkness
and meet me at the end?
Oh no, get lost in you,
Like you know I often do
And I wonder if you’re proud of me
If you can hear me shout at me
I need to kill this doubt in me for good
So help me now to let you go
So I can live
So I can live
Oh no, get lost in you,
Like you know I often do
And I wonder if you’re proud of me
If you can hear me shout at me
I need to kill this doubt in me for good
So help me now to let you go
So help me now to let you go
So help me now to let you go
So I can live
a-Oh, So I can live
a-Oh, So I can live
a-Oh, So I can live
Oh yeah, So I can live
And every day’s another day from what we used to be
& I don’t know what I’ve been thinkin’ cause this is much like hell
And it’s days like this I must insist I’m not doin’ so well
Oh no, get lost in you,
Like you know I often do
And I wonder if you’re proud of me
If you can hear me shout at me
I need to kill this doubt in me for good
So help me now to let you go
Think about these last 10 years and what they’ve done to me
& I don’t think its worth it cause its just not fun to me
what if I just kill myself and we never spoke again
would you make your way back through the darkness
and meet me at the end?
Oh no, get lost in you,
Like you know I often do
And I wonder if you’re proud of me
If you can hear me shout at me
I need to kill this doubt in me for good
So help me now to let you go
So I can live
So I can live
Oh no, get lost in you,
Like you know I often do
And I wonder if you’re proud of me
If you can hear me shout at me
I need to kill this doubt in me for good
So help me now to let you go
So help me now to let you go
So help me now to let you go
So I can live
a-Oh, So I can live
a-Oh, So I can live
a-Oh, So I can live
Oh yeah, So I can live
Lyrics submitted by Kristensay_what?
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No Surprises
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Just A Little Lovin'
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this is an amazing song. I love these lyrics
This explains a situation I went through. I had a long time friend who was a girl. It was weird, we'd be cool and all,hang out do stuff, but I was only really her friend between her dating other guys. Any, Something made her like me again, and we went all the way for like the third time and then she says she shouldn't have done that. I guess she said that since she was engaged to be married when we did that. Now shes pregnant. So that alone made things very easy. Finally stopped talking to me about a month into her pregnancy. Thank god!
i have alot of respect for this band. reppin' SUBLIME AND BOB MARLEY. not to mention there not like anything out there, and thats what i call music.
this song might be about howi and big d's mom who died, talking about trying to keep her close to him, and he wonders if she's proud of him. but then again it might be about being in a serious relationship and stopping loving the girl. trying everything to keep her close and start liking her again maybe? but at the same time he's so unhappy he just wants it to end
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This song always gives me goose bumps everytime I hear it.
great song. sounds like a love thing to me, but its up to the listener to judge for themselves