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"
Five years old, in my pink tutu
I was spinning, spinning
and no one ever knew
That these bruises hold a dirty clue
I was spinning, spinning
and no ever knew
Oh, pretty, pretty me
I am the prettiest girl you ever did see, yeah
Oh, pretty, pretty me
I am the prettiest girl you ever did see
Seventh grade, my boyfriend made
a joke about the way I looked in the pool
So I never ate, and I looked great
But I was spinning, spinning and no one ever knew
Oh, pretty, pretty me
I am the prettiest girl you ever did see
Oh, pretty, pretty me
I am the prettiest girl you ever did see
Twenty eight years old
As I'm getting dressed I'm told, I am the prettiest girl he ever did see
But six months on, and that dress is gone
Because the aisle is too long for me
Oh
Two bags, a ticket, a couch in L.A.
Nothing left to prove, finally something to say
I am wise enough now, smart enough now
I own my own mistakes
But I got no job, I got no car, No Driver's License, No cash
No savings, No heath care, No furniture, No place to live, No RIA, No retirement scheme, No winter coat, No Christmas tree, No family near me, No money for morning coffee, and No way to pay off my debt
But I am dreaming
Oh, pretty, pretty me
I am the prettiest girl you ever did see, yeah
Oh, pretty, pretty me
I am the prettiest girl you ever did see
You ever did see, yeah, yeah
I was spinning, spinning
and no one ever knew
That these bruises hold a dirty clue
I was spinning, spinning
and no ever knew
Oh, pretty, pretty me
I am the prettiest girl you ever did see, yeah
Oh, pretty, pretty me
I am the prettiest girl you ever did see
Seventh grade, my boyfriend made
a joke about the way I looked in the pool
So I never ate, and I looked great
But I was spinning, spinning and no one ever knew
Oh, pretty, pretty me
I am the prettiest girl you ever did see
Oh, pretty, pretty me
I am the prettiest girl you ever did see
Twenty eight years old
As I'm getting dressed I'm told, I am the prettiest girl he ever did see
But six months on, and that dress is gone
Because the aisle is too long for me
Oh
Two bags, a ticket, a couch in L.A.
Nothing left to prove, finally something to say
I am wise enough now, smart enough now
I own my own mistakes
But I got no job, I got no car, No Driver's License, No cash
No savings, No heath care, No furniture, No place to live, No RIA, No retirement scheme, No winter coat, No Christmas tree, No family near me, No money for morning coffee, and No way to pay off my debt
But I am dreaming
Oh, pretty, pretty me
I am the prettiest girl you ever did see, yeah
Oh, pretty, pretty me
I am the prettiest girl you ever did see
You ever did see, yeah, yeah
Lyrics submitted by crystal0615
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this song is heartbreakingly beautiful.
as for the meaning, i think it's about a girl that cares about what others think of her and lets them run her life. she finally has enough of it and doesn't get married ("because the aisle is too long for me"), and even though she is alone with nothing, she is finally happy ("but i am dreaming")
i think the song is about how superficious people are...or CHOOSE to be. we look away for the things we do not want to see. or we don't care enough to REALLY look. we look. we see. we judge and we hardly ever take the time to dig deeper. to talk to a person. hey, you look like this or that. but are you FEELING like that? what is going on in your life? are you okay? (and really MEANING that question. not just an empty question.)
a little child. dancing in her tutu. oh...she must be so happy. what a lovely child. but...why does not anybody see the bruises on her arms or other places? don't they REALLY see it? or are they choosing to look away because it is 'none of their business' ? we look. we judge. little girl. dancing. so: happy. WRONG !!!
a young girl. looking good. not an gram of fat on her body. she is spinning. dizzy? for hunger? is she dieting when it is not needed? why does nobody take the time to ASK? we look. we judge. young, slender, so: happy. WRONG !!!
a young woman in a weddingdress. make up. hair nicely done. she has someone who wants to marry her. why did not anybody ask her how she felt about that marriage? did she feel pressed into it? did she not see another way, perhaps? maybe the guy beats her, and she did not dare to leave him? we look. we judge. young. going to marry. beautiful. so: happy. WRONG!
then...that last woman of the song. homeless. almost without any possions. ony two bags. abandoned by her family. all on her own. obviously this woman will not be pretty. she will have no make-up in her 2 bags. no place to live. so most likely her hair won't be perfect. most likely she will even be dirty. slept in her cloths we look. we judge. dirty. wrinkled cloths. apparantly homeless. so: unhappy. but... if you talk to a homeless person, you will find out that not ALL homeless people are unhappy. some of them have the nicest of dreams. some of them actually CHOOSE to live like that. some of them feel free and independant lving like that.
we look. we judge. but what we actually SHOULD be doing is: CARE. and TALK and LISTEN. really LISTEN.
that is what i think this song means.
my interpretation:\n\nI think this is about a girl who lives a lonely life, because people judge and rate her on the way she looks, so eventually her looks are everything that make her feel valid. But her life’s actually shit.