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"
Let's Go....
At home on that friday night
and his weekends been made
because he's just been paid
he'll be out tonight
cuz it's a hadouken! gig
he's got his tickets and it's gona be big
gel on his hair and he's finally ready
his sheets are washed and his life ???
only 17 and he's up for the game
straight out the door
meet his boys on the train
What he don't know
is that She's on HER own
Cuz at the gig
hes gonna meet a girl
there gonna loose there mates
there gonna stay out late
Cuz he is lovin' the crowd.
BIG MUSIC YELL OUT VOLUMES
BLASTIN' OUT BEAR AND HORMONES
BRIGHT LIGHTS AND RIPPIN' GUITAR
THATS WHEN HE MET HER
AND HE SPOTTED THE CEILING
PARTY AND THE WAY HES FEELING
HE CRASHES OUT AND EVERYONES SCREAMING
THATS THEN WHEN SHE KISSED HIM.
at home on the early evening
She's getting dressed up
with her mates in the room
they simply farse what she's tryin' on
slaps on her nicest perfume
the girls tell her that she looks hot
they drink alcho pops and neck a few shots
time up and there ready to rock
the shops sells 20 they can buy FAGS from the shop
What he don't know
is that he's on his own
Cuz at the gig
hes gonna meet a girl
there gonna loose there mates
there gonna stay out late
Cuz he is lovin' the crowd.
BIG MUSIC GET OUT VOLUMES
BLASTIN' OUT BEAR AND HORMONES
BRIGHT LIGHTS AND RIPPIN' GUITAR
THATS WHEN HE MET HER
AND HE SPOTTED THE CEILING
PARTY AND THE WAY HES FEELING
HE CRASHES OUT AND EVERYONES SCREAMING
THATS THEN WHEN SHE KISSED HIM.
so there inside the venue
it's quarter past 8
got an hour till the band takes stage
she looks over and spots her boy
he's lost his mates and hes acting coy
sure the party won't great???
one hour and she lives with her mates
she walks over and she gets closer
he looks and turns and notices her...
(I'LL BE FINE)
THE LIGHTS GO DOWN
THE AIR IS THICK
I'LL SEARCH FOR WOOD
AND THE STARE IS SICK
SILHOUETTES APPEAR
THE CROWD ALL CHEER
IT FEELS LIKE THEY WHERE WAITING YEARS..
At home on that friday night
and his weekends been made
because he's just been paid
he'll be out tonight
cuz it's a hadouken! gig
he's got his tickets and it's gona be big
gel on his hair and he's finally ready
his sheets are washed and his life ???
only 17 and he's up for the game
straight out the door
meet his boys on the train
What he don't know
is that She's on HER own
Cuz at the gig
hes gonna meet a girl
there gonna loose there mates
there gonna stay out late
Cuz he is lovin' the crowd.
BIG MUSIC YELL OUT VOLUMES
BLASTIN' OUT BEAR AND HORMONES
BRIGHT LIGHTS AND RIPPIN' GUITAR
THATS WHEN HE MET HER
AND HE SPOTTED THE CEILING
PARTY AND THE WAY HES FEELING
HE CRASHES OUT AND EVERYONES SCREAMING
THATS THEN WHEN SHE KISSED HIM.
at home on the early evening
She's getting dressed up
with her mates in the room
they simply farse what she's tryin' on
slaps on her nicest perfume
the girls tell her that she looks hot
they drink alcho pops and neck a few shots
time up and there ready to rock
the shops sells 20 they can buy FAGS from the shop
What he don't know
is that he's on his own
Cuz at the gig
hes gonna meet a girl
there gonna loose there mates
there gonna stay out late
Cuz he is lovin' the crowd.
BIG MUSIC GET OUT VOLUMES
BLASTIN' OUT BEAR AND HORMONES
BRIGHT LIGHTS AND RIPPIN' GUITAR
THATS WHEN HE MET HER
AND HE SPOTTED THE CEILING
PARTY AND THE WAY HES FEELING
HE CRASHES OUT AND EVERYONES SCREAMING
THATS THEN WHEN SHE KISSED HIM.
so there inside the venue
it's quarter past 8
got an hour till the band takes stage
she looks over and spots her boy
he's lost his mates and hes acting coy
sure the party won't great???
one hour and she lives with her mates
she walks over and she gets closer
he looks and turns and notices her...
(I'LL BE FINE)
THE LIGHTS GO DOWN
THE AIR IS THICK
I'LL SEARCH FOR WOOD
AND THE STARE IS SICK
SILHOUETTES APPEAR
THE CROWD ALL CHEER
IT FEELS LIKE THEY WHERE WAITING YEARS..
Lyrics submitted by totalbummer
Love, Sweat And Beer Lyrics as written by James Joseph Smith
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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