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 see you, you can stop trying to hide
There's a twinkle in your eye and it's giving you away
Get with it lady, stop trying to hide
There's a demon by your side and you're never gonna catch me
I took the long road
I took the longest way
I took the wrong road
I took the wrongest way
I'm sorry I was blinded by my love and I thought that I was tough
But there's nothing gonna change me
I see you in the corner with the ropes down, waiting for the next round
You're never gonna get me
I took the long road
I took the longest way
I took the wrong road
I took the wrongest way
Yeah
I took the long road
I took the longest way
I took the wrong road
I took the wrongest way
I knew it when I heard you say cocaine
I knew it when we ran into your boyfriend
Out there on the street, with his new girl
And we were stuck with what he left you
Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm
Now we're being wounded by the fray
I thought that there was hope, I thought that I could cope
But the more I try to swallow this the more I just choke
This is not a joke, this is not a joke
I can feel the rope tighten on my throat
And is there another way?
We made it through the day
But still you're smiling and I'm thinking that we're doing okay
But then crying and remembering and now we're up late
(Open your eyes)
And my eyes are barely open and I'm hearing you say
Can you see me straight?
Can you see me straight?
Do you see me straight?
Do you see me straight, or am I a blurry line?
Oh, but can you see me straight?
Do I see you straight?
Can you see me straight?
Do you see me straight, or am I a blurry line?
I took the long road
I took the longest way
I took the wrong road
I took the wrongest way
Hey
I took the long road
I took the longest way
I took the wrong road
I took the wrongest way
I see you, you can stop trying to hide
There's a twinkle in your eye and it's giving you away
I see you, you can stop trying to hide
There's a twinkle in your eye and it's giving you away
There's a twinkle in your eye and it's giving you away
Get with it lady, stop trying to hide
There's a demon by your side and you're never gonna catch me
I took the long road
I took the longest way
I took the wrong road
I took the wrongest way
I'm sorry I was blinded by my love and I thought that I was tough
But there's nothing gonna change me
I see you in the corner with the ropes down, waiting for the next round
You're never gonna get me
I took the long road
I took the longest way
I took the wrong road
I took the wrongest way
Yeah
I took the long road
I took the longest way
I took the wrong road
I took the wrongest way
I knew it when I heard you say cocaine
I knew it when we ran into your boyfriend
Out there on the street, with his new girl
And we were stuck with what he left you
Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm
Now we're being wounded by the fray
I thought that there was hope, I thought that I could cope
But the more I try to swallow this the more I just choke
This is not a joke, this is not a joke
I can feel the rope tighten on my throat
And is there another way?
We made it through the day
But still you're smiling and I'm thinking that we're doing okay
But then crying and remembering and now we're up late
(Open your eyes)
And my eyes are barely open and I'm hearing you say
Can you see me straight?
Can you see me straight?
Do you see me straight?
Do you see me straight, or am I a blurry line?
Oh, but can you see me straight?
Do I see you straight?
Can you see me straight?
Do you see me straight, or am I a blurry line?
I took the long road
I took the longest way
I took the wrong road
I took the wrongest way
Hey
I took the long road
I took the longest way
I took the wrong road
I took the wrongest way
I see you, you can stop trying to hide
There's a twinkle in your eye and it's giving you away
I see you, you can stop trying to hide
There's a twinkle in your eye and it's giving you away
Lyrics submitted by Quinnypoo
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