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"
I wonder if you're going down
Well, we all know you get lost
And then get found
And then I wonder so
I can't believe that's what you said
I wonder in my sleep
I can't believe that's what you heard
Can you not feel?
I can't take this
No, I don't like it
I don't know where you are
[Chorus]
You know she's dancing at the disco
And whoa, she's dying on the dance floor
I know you're sleeping all alone
You feel suicidal
Now you're dying to get out
But do ?
Do you feel it in your veins
The poison rushing through?
But can't you see it in your heart
I'm still there for you?
I can't take this
No, I don't like it
I don't know where you are
[Chorus]
(Say my name)
You don't even know it
(Well, I am done)
Well, you sure aren't showing it
(Now hold my hand)
You know she's on the dance floor
(Well, I know she's got it)
But still she craves more
[Chorus:Repeat x2]
Well, we all know you get lost
And then get found
And then I wonder so
I can't believe that's what you said
I wonder in my sleep
I can't believe that's what you heard
Can you not feel?
I can't take this
No, I don't like it
I don't know where you are
[Chorus]
You know she's dancing at the disco
And whoa, she's dying on the dance floor
I know you're sleeping all alone
You feel suicidal
Now you're dying to get out
But do ?
Do you feel it in your veins
The poison rushing through?
But can't you see it in your heart
I'm still there for you?
I can't take this
No, I don't like it
I don't know where you are
[Chorus]
(Say my name)
You don't even know it
(Well, I am done)
Well, you sure aren't showing it
(Now hold my hand)
You know she's on the dance floor
(Well, I know she's got it)
But still she craves more
[Chorus:Repeat x2]
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
Disco Lyrics as written by Timothy Healy Trace Cyrus
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Songtrust Ave
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I agree with annie sanguinetti about her interpretation, but I guess the song can mean whatever you want to yourself.
ITS ACTUALLY WHERE WE ALL KNOW YOU KNOW SHES DANCING AT THE DISCO IS A WAY OF SAYING I MISS YOU AND WONDER WHAT YOU'RE DOING BUT YOU'RE PROBALY PARTYING AND HAVING FUN :) IM A HUGE METRO STATION FAN AND KNOW ALL THE LYRICS TO ALL THE SONGS 1 THING IS I OWN THE ALBUM AND IT COMES WITH THE LYRICS ;p
I turn away
i think they say "i don't know where you are"
it is
"i dont know where you are"
cuase it say "you know shes dancing at the disco" which means like someone is saying i cant find you and im freaking but someone else knows that he actually knows where she is
:)
it is
"i dont know where you are"
cuase it say "you know shes dancing at the disco" which means like someone is saying i cant find you and im freaking but someone else knows that he actually knows where she is
:)
and then? and then i wonder so.
and she craves for..
i think it's that she craves "more"
one of metro stations best songs. its my ringtone. =)
"But do ?"
That part is - But it's in you deep inside