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"
Do you remember
The day I turned to you and said
I didn't like the way he was looking at you, yeah
How it made you laugh
You just couldn't get what I was saying
It was my imagination
So do you believe me now
I guess I really wasn't that crazy
And I knew what I was talking bout
Every time the sun goes down
He's the one that's holding you baby
Yeah me I'm missin' you way across town
So do you believe me now
I'm kicking myself
For being the one foolish enough
Giving him the chance to step in my shoes
He was bidin' his time
When he saw our love was having a moment of weakness
He was there between us
So do you believe me now
I guess I really wasn't that crazy
And I knew what I was talking 'bout
Every time the sun goes down
He's the one that's holding you baby
Yeah me I'm missin' you way across town
So do you believe me now
Oh yeah I bet now you see the light
Oh yeah what's the use in being right
We're not the lonely one tonight
So do you believe me now
I guess I really wasn't that crazy
And I knew what I was talking bout
Every time the sun goes down
He's the one that's holding you baby
Yeah me I'm missin' you way across town
So do you believe me now
Yeah
So do you believe me now
Yeah
Every time the sun goes down
He's the one that's holding you baby
Yeah me I'm missin' you way across town
So do you believe me now
The day I turned to you and said
I didn't like the way he was looking at you, yeah
How it made you laugh
You just couldn't get what I was saying
It was my imagination
So do you believe me now
I guess I really wasn't that crazy
And I knew what I was talking bout
Every time the sun goes down
He's the one that's holding you baby
Yeah me I'm missin' you way across town
So do you believe me now
I'm kicking myself
For being the one foolish enough
Giving him the chance to step in my shoes
He was bidin' his time
When he saw our love was having a moment of weakness
He was there between us
So do you believe me now
I guess I really wasn't that crazy
And I knew what I was talking 'bout
Every time the sun goes down
He's the one that's holding you baby
Yeah me I'm missin' you way across town
So do you believe me now
Oh yeah I bet now you see the light
Oh yeah what's the use in being right
We're not the lonely one tonight
So do you believe me now
I guess I really wasn't that crazy
And I knew what I was talking bout
Every time the sun goes down
He's the one that's holding you baby
Yeah me I'm missin' you way across town
So do you believe me now
Yeah
So do you believe me now
Yeah
Every time the sun goes down
He's the one that's holding you baby
Yeah me I'm missin' you way across town
So do you believe me now
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It kinda makes me sad that no one has commented on this amazing song. I'm not sure really what I love about this song, because the lyrics are kinda more sad than the song sounds, but I just love the sound of it.
Obviously, this song is about he noticed a guy was kinda flirtin with his girl, and she flirted back. The girl denied it and said, no, you're just imagining things. But they were taking a break, and she hooked up with that other guy and now they're together and he's alone... way across town.
Well I kinda think the same the thing as mykonstantine except for she wasn't really flirting back. She just was having a friendly relationship with some guy and well yea she fell for him. But she fell for him when her relationship with the guy singing was going kinda downhill.
i saw the music video not long ago, and i loveddd it.. its really sad though.
This song reminds me of the book "Dear John"...If anyone has read it, it's kinda like this...spoiler alert haha...
John always knew that Tim---I think his name was---had a thing for Savannah...And I think he even voiced it once and she said That they were best friends and she saw him as a brother...
However when John and Savannah had their moment when things weren't working out...Tim was there for her and one event led to another and they fell in love...And she broke up with John and pretty much left him heartbroken...Way across the DAMN world! Ugh.. I love this song...but when I think of that story it pisses me off....haha
I like this song, but I think there is more to the "story". If the other man was able to "steal" the man's girlfriend/wife, then maybe the couple had issues already. Your partner can't really be stolen, like a car. They decide to leave you for someone else.