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"
Beauty over wisdom to fit in with their style
Your Cinderella story's for a price
Vanity's a business built to fleece the unique
Silicon and stars collide, the rest will fall in line
Just as beautiful as you are
It's so pitiful what you are
You should have seen this coming all along
Visually you're stimulating to my eyes
Your Cinderella syndrome's full of lies
Your insecurities are concealed by your pride
Pretty soon your ego will kill what's left inside
Just as beautiful as you are
It's so pitiful what you are
You should have seen this coming all along
It's so pitiful what you are
As beautiful as you are
You should have seen this coming all along
You're everything that's so typical
Maybe you're alone for a reason, you're the reason
So pitiful what you are
Should have seen this coming all along
Just as beautiful as you are
It's so pitiful what you are
You should have seen this coming all along
It's so pitiful what you are
As beautiful as you are
Should have seen this coming all along
Your Cinderella story's for a price
Vanity's a business built to fleece the unique
Silicon and stars collide, the rest will fall in line
Just as beautiful as you are
It's so pitiful what you are
You should have seen this coming all along
Visually you're stimulating to my eyes
Your Cinderella syndrome's full of lies
Your insecurities are concealed by your pride
Pretty soon your ego will kill what's left inside
Just as beautiful as you are
It's so pitiful what you are
You should have seen this coming all along
It's so pitiful what you are
As beautiful as you are
You should have seen this coming all along
You're everything that's so typical
Maybe you're alone for a reason, you're the reason
So pitiful what you are
Should have seen this coming all along
Just as beautiful as you are
It's so pitiful what you are
You should have seen this coming all along
It's so pitiful what you are
As beautiful as you are
Should have seen this coming all along
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I think about my ex when i hear this song because she was a beautiful girl and her aditude just sucked. When you saw her you were stunned but when she opened her mouth she just killed it. Good song. 10 years is a great band!
single off the new album
To me, the song is about a good-looking girl who isn't worth being with. She's full of herself and stupid(or is just continually making the same mistakes) to the point that he, and everyone else, doesn't want to be with her.
This song is so badass. It looks like the new 10 Years album will cover the seven deadly sins. This song is about vanity. Can't wait till April.
very hot girl, very full of her self. and not realizing whats going on until shes so lost shes pathetic
The second to last stanza is wrong. It should be...
"So pitiful what you are, should have seen this coming all along"
This is a good song. It seems a little lighter then their previous album so far, but this is the only song i've heard and it's still good. Can't wait!
i also think that this song is about someone that is beautiful on the outside but has insecurities and faults on the inside. but i also think that the person may have had plastic surgery in order to cover up her imperfections and the writer sees this as pitiful
I think, this guy is in love with someone, and is seeing the faults in the girl and seeing them reflected in himself as well.
His vanity is that he wants a beautiful love.
Part of the song he's talking about his love, the other part he's talking about himself.
This song is about, as everyone else has stated, a girl that is caught up in the superficial bullshit that is, in my opinion, destroying this generation. There are so many girls my age that this song could describe. They are pretty to look at, but they have nothing to say. But The first part about vanity being a buisness to fleece the unique makes me think that the girl in the song once had a lot going for her, but she was insecure, so she stopped being herself, and tried to be the person that society wants her to be.