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"
And you lock the house to keep your secret from coming out
I wont, No. I'm sorry because you're old news
And my life is holding our heads to this gun
You and your new boy think you can come in and keep me off, but you're wrong
I find myself on the street out in front of your house, you can kiss safe thoughts goodbye.
I'm coming up to break your heart.
You're sleeping with the light on like you're dying to be found out.
And you lock the house to keep your secret from coming out
I wont, No. I'm sorry because you're old news
And my life is holding our heads to this gun
You and your new boy think you can come in and keep me off, but you're wrong
I find myself on the street out in front of your house, you can kiss safe thoughts goodbye.
I'm coming up to break your heart.
You're sleeping with the light on like you're dying to be found out.
I find myself on the street out in front of your house, you can kiss safe thoughts goodbye.
I'm coming up to break your heart.
You're sleeping with the light on like you're dying to be found out.
(And you lock the house)
And you lock the house
oh,oh,oh,oh,oh
And you lock the house
And you lock the house
oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh
I wont, No. I'm sorry because you're old news
And my life is holding our heads to this gun
You and your new boy think you can come in and keep me off, but you're wrong
I find myself on the street out in front of your house, you can kiss safe thoughts goodbye.
I'm coming up to break your heart.
You're sleeping with the light on like you're dying to be found out.
And you lock the house to keep your secret from coming out
I wont, No. I'm sorry because you're old news
And my life is holding our heads to this gun
You and your new boy think you can come in and keep me off, but you're wrong
I find myself on the street out in front of your house, you can kiss safe thoughts goodbye.
I'm coming up to break your heart.
You're sleeping with the light on like you're dying to be found out.
I find myself on the street out in front of your house, you can kiss safe thoughts goodbye.
I'm coming up to break your heart.
You're sleeping with the light on like you're dying to be found out.
(And you lock the house)
And you lock the house
oh,oh,oh,oh,oh
And you lock the house
And you lock the house
oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh
Lyrics submitted by wesaysummer
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oh shut up, fob are still as amazing as they always have been, and if ur so narrow minded u cant see that, what the fuck are u doing commenting on their lyrics?
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I really love this song. At first I didn't, but it grew on me. You can download it on Limewire, I just did.
You fucking idiot. Obviously he isn't saying this with a big head.
You have to take into account that this song was written back in 2004, so obviously this was before they 'sold out' though they clearly did not. Selling out would be doing what everyone else wanted them to do, which would have been writing 3 more TTTYGs. Who the hell wants that? That's nothing. That's not progression, that's stagnation.
In my opinion this song is about someone who is wanting him/them to change for their benefit or to do what they want to do but they're basically saying "No, fuck you, we're going to do what we want and you're going to be sorry that you ever left because we wouldn't listen." But that's just me. I really wish they'd record a studio version of this.
fucking sell outs. they are proably the worst case of sell out i have ever seen. how embarrassing - on their part and the ex fans, and theirs. heaps of people are way embarrassed to say they used to listen to them (myself included) and them, they must feel so embarrassed when they hear the likes of 'this aint a scene its an arms race' or whatever, unless the money has blinded them so much that they just don't care. i think the latter is the most probable :)
someone needs a life....
Gee, thanks for wasting both your time and ours.
hey, man. real quick. <br /> <br /> bands change, because the same sound can't stay the same. people change. everything changes. <br /> <br /> get off songmeanings on a band you don't even like anymore on a song that is a demo that isn't even released, and go fuck yourself. <br /> <br /> shit.