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"
When you forget me
When you don't remember my name
Not even a memory
Somewhere in the back of your brain
I won't be offended
'Cause I always knew that the day would come,
When I'm not enough to make you stay
You tell me it's not possible, no way that we could break
But nothing is illogical, believe me
Like falling stars over your head
We were bound to burn out, burn like crashing cars
I'll never get over you, never over you
'Cause you are so beautiful, yeah
The world is turning
And time keeps on lingering on
The sun will be burning
Eventually you will be gone
I'll always love you
Oh, believe it or not
But baby, that's not enough to,
Not enough to stop these
Falling stars over your head
We were bound to burn out, burn like crashing cars
I'll never get over you, never over you
'Cause you are so beautiful, yeah
When it's all said and done
I'll be just a speck in the galaxy
Floating far away by gravity
Tell me it's not possible, no way that we could break
Like falling stars
Like crashing cars
Like falling stars over your head
We were bound to burn out, just like crashing cars
I'll never get over you, never over you
'Cause you are so beautiful
You are so beautiful, yeah
When you don't remember my name
Not even a memory
Somewhere in the back of your brain
I won't be offended
'Cause I always knew that the day would come,
When I'm not enough to make you stay
You tell me it's not possible, no way that we could break
But nothing is illogical, believe me
Like falling stars over your head
We were bound to burn out, burn like crashing cars
I'll never get over you, never over you
'Cause you are so beautiful, yeah
The world is turning
And time keeps on lingering on
The sun will be burning
Eventually you will be gone
I'll always love you
Oh, believe it or not
But baby, that's not enough to,
Not enough to stop these
Falling stars over your head
We were bound to burn out, burn like crashing cars
I'll never get over you, never over you
'Cause you are so beautiful, yeah
When it's all said and done
I'll be just a speck in the galaxy
Floating far away by gravity
Tell me it's not possible, no way that we could break
Like falling stars
Like crashing cars
Like falling stars over your head
We were bound to burn out, just like crashing cars
I'll never get over you, never over you
'Cause you are so beautiful
You are so beautiful, yeah
Lyrics submitted by giveuslifeagain
Falling Stars Lyrics as written by Claude Kelly Jess Cates
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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