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"
Baby girl, I'm a blur
I spoiled, stunted, sickened her
God and Death are none of my concern
I'm no philosopher
Deep in your heart, stitched the key
And only one can set me free from the beast
Where I dwell and let the saints all burn in hell
[Chorus:]
So take what you want from me, (I'm on my way) hey
And take all I've got from me, (I'm on my way) hey
You're with me all the time
The drugs can have my mind, love
You own the rest you'll find
And you're with me all the time
On the roof, burning black
The city smoked from the attack
But on the roof, we love the beast to death
The sweat and whiskey breath
[Chorus]
We fall right down
We get back up again
Thats how we be
You and me
I would not crowd,
I would not smother you
I'd let you breathe, over me
We're on a sinking ship, but we're escaping it
We're on a sinking ship, but we're escaping
We're on a sinking ship, but we're escaping it
We're on a sinking ship, we're escaping
You're with me all the time
You're with me all the time
You're with me all the time
You're with me all the time
No matter where I go you're on my mind
I stumble home and pray I'll find
With your flamethrower eyes and jilted smile
You'll soothe my wounds and drain my bile
You're with me all the time
I spoiled, stunted, sickened her
God and Death are none of my concern
I'm no philosopher
Deep in your heart, stitched the key
And only one can set me free from the beast
Where I dwell and let the saints all burn in hell
[Chorus:]
So take what you want from me, (I'm on my way) hey
And take all I've got from me, (I'm on my way) hey
You're with me all the time
The drugs can have my mind, love
You own the rest you'll find
And you're with me all the time
On the roof, burning black
The city smoked from the attack
But on the roof, we love the beast to death
The sweat and whiskey breath
[Chorus]
We fall right down
We get back up again
Thats how we be
You and me
I would not crowd,
I would not smother you
I'd let you breathe, over me
We're on a sinking ship, but we're escaping it
We're on a sinking ship, but we're escaping
We're on a sinking ship, but we're escaping it
We're on a sinking ship, we're escaping
You're with me all the time
You're with me all the time
You're with me all the time
You're with me all the time
No matter where I go you're on my mind
I stumble home and pray I'll find
With your flamethrower eyes and jilted smile
You'll soothe my wounds and drain my bile
You're with me all the time
Lyrics submitted by overoverme
Baby Girl, I'm a Blur Lyrics as written by Max Bemis
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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i gotta say that i adore the acoustic version. he has a lot of passion in it.
i think that it's about a guy who's a mess, and his girlfriend still loves him but can't continue living with this mess of a boyfriend. he loves her, but he's just too screwed up to do anything.
mmm, i just bought the real version on itunes, SO much better than the acoustic version. and i'm a big fan of acoustics.
The normal version hasn't grown on me yet. The vocals are basically the same as the acoustic, so that works. The beat is...an interesting choice.
haha this song is nuts, genius, sounds like brand new meets messed up german techno or something
and kinda like that yvan eht nioj song from the simpsons?
hahaha join the navy.
i like it, but my itunes is being a dick, is there anywhere else i can get this...? also im still looking for a place on the web to either download or at least listen to the brand new full length re-recorded version of a walk through hell.
can i get some help...?
nevermind, i got it, and lemme just say...
this is a good one. its very different from the original live acoustic version. a little less synth would suit me just find, but its still great. maybe not as say anything'ish as it is max'ish.
my favorite parts are when max yells in the back round "im on my way"
I downloaded this off Itunes, but I have to say that I like the acoustc version better. And I am the biggest Say anything fan out there
i'm still figuring out what the lyrics mean, but the way max sings it in the beginning sounds really familiar, but i can't think of the song, idk, im not bashing the new stuff its awesome can't wait til the 24th!