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"
Better run for cover
You're a hurricane full of lies
And the way you’re heading
No ones getting out alive
So do us all a favor
Would you find somebody else to blame
Cause your words are like bullets
And I'm the way your weapons aim
Yes I can feel the burn
With things that I don’t know about you, baby
You’re not misunderstood
But you got, you got to go!
(Lies!)
You're living in a fantasy,
(Lies!)
Don't even know reality,
(Lies!)
When you start talking,
I start walking
(Lies! Lies! Lies!)
Don't even wanna know the truth,
(Lies!)
The devil has his eye on you, girl
When you start talking
I start walking
(Lies! Lies! Lies!)
So don’t forget your seatbelt
Don't you think of picking up the phone
Better say your prayers
Cause you’re never gonna make it home
Did you miss the stop sign?
That last decision was your last
Cause you can’t go back
Once you're lying in the broken glass
You get to here me say
Who gets the last laugh now!
(Lies!)
You're living in a fantasy,
(Lies!)
Don't even know reality,
(Lies!)
When you start talking,
I start walking
(Lies! Lies! Lies!)
Don't even wanna know the truth,
(Lies!)
The devil has his eye on you, girl
When you start talking
I start walking
(Lies! Lies! Lies!)
No more excuses
No more running
Only God can save you now
(God can save you now)
Cos I know the truth
Time is running out!!
And I'm just one drink away
And I'm back in wonderland like it was yesterday
You get to hear me say
Who gets the last?
Who gets the last?
Who gets the last laugh now!
(Lies!)
You're living in a fantasy,
(Lies!)
Don't even know reality,
(Lies!)
When you start talking,
I start walking
(Lies! Lies! Lies!)
Don't even wanna know the truth,
(Lies!)
The devil has his eye on you, girl
When you start talking
I start walking
(Lies! Lies! Lies!)
Woah Oh Oh
Lies Lies Lies
Woah Oh Oh
Lies Lies Lies
Woah Oh Oh
Ooooh Lies Lies Lies (Lies Lies)
Yeah
Lies Lies Lies
You're a hurricane full of lies
And the way you’re heading
No ones getting out alive
So do us all a favor
Would you find somebody else to blame
Cause your words are like bullets
And I'm the way your weapons aim
Yes I can feel the burn
With things that I don’t know about you, baby
You’re not misunderstood
But you got, you got to go!
(Lies!)
You're living in a fantasy,
(Lies!)
Don't even know reality,
(Lies!)
When you start talking,
I start walking
(Lies! Lies! Lies!)
Don't even wanna know the truth,
(Lies!)
The devil has his eye on you, girl
When you start talking
I start walking
(Lies! Lies! Lies!)
So don’t forget your seatbelt
Don't you think of picking up the phone
Better say your prayers
Cause you’re never gonna make it home
Did you miss the stop sign?
That last decision was your last
Cause you can’t go back
Once you're lying in the broken glass
You get to here me say
Who gets the last laugh now!
(Lies!)
You're living in a fantasy,
(Lies!)
Don't even know reality,
(Lies!)
When you start talking,
I start walking
(Lies! Lies! Lies!)
Don't even wanna know the truth,
(Lies!)
The devil has his eye on you, girl
When you start talking
I start walking
(Lies! Lies! Lies!)
No more excuses
No more running
Only God can save you now
(God can save you now)
Cos I know the truth
Time is running out!!
And I'm just one drink away
And I'm back in wonderland like it was yesterday
You get to hear me say
Who gets the last?
Who gets the last?
Who gets the last laugh now!
(Lies!)
You're living in a fantasy,
(Lies!)
Don't even know reality,
(Lies!)
When you start talking,
I start walking
(Lies! Lies! Lies!)
Don't even wanna know the truth,
(Lies!)
The devil has his eye on you, girl
When you start talking
I start walking
(Lies! Lies! Lies!)
Woah Oh Oh
Lies Lies Lies
Woah Oh Oh
Lies Lies Lies
Woah Oh Oh
Ooooh Lies Lies Lies (Lies Lies)
Yeah
Lies Lies Lies
Lyrics submitted by I.Still.Remeber
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