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"
No I won't play that song,
to hear you singing it back.
It is all wrong.
If I ever told the truth,
he was never dead, at least not to you.
But you still sing, you still do.
We are so young.
We are so young now.
Hold your head up for the world to spin around.
Old friend we used to talk.
What we used to say, I can't recall.
Was I really listening?
Was I just waiting for my turn to talk?
I got everything to say too.
We are so young.
We are so young now.
Hold your head up, baby soon I'll be around.
Round and round we go we go.
Round and round we go we go,
and round and round we go we go.
(I know you hate the sound but baby I can't stop)
Round and round we go.
ba da da da da,
ba da da da da, da da da, da
da da da da da.
(ect.)
We are so young.
We are so young now.
Hold your head up for the world to spin around.
We are so young.
We are so young now.
Hold your hands out for what we can't pull down.
to hear you singing it back.
It is all wrong.
If I ever told the truth,
he was never dead, at least not to you.
But you still sing, you still do.
We are so young.
We are so young now.
Hold your head up for the world to spin around.
Old friend we used to talk.
What we used to say, I can't recall.
Was I really listening?
Was I just waiting for my turn to talk?
I got everything to say too.
We are so young.
We are so young now.
Hold your head up, baby soon I'll be around.
Round and round we go we go.
Round and round we go we go,
and round and round we go we go.
(I know you hate the sound but baby I can't stop)
Round and round we go.
ba da da da da,
ba da da da da, da da da, da
da da da da da.
(ect.)
We are so young.
We are so young now.
Hold your head up for the world to spin around.
We are so young.
We are so young now.
Hold your hands out for what we can't pull down.
Lyrics submitted by HeyUngracefulxx
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I think the first verse is a reference to the widow!
Because at one of their shows cody asked for the crowd not to sing Ergo, he won't play that song to hear the fans singing it back because the dead man in The Widow doesn't even matter they just want to sing along
That's my take on the first verse I'm either right or totally out of my mind either way, i think it was a good catch!
You've just opened up a whole new interpretation to the song for me EcentC.
I think the first verse may be speaking directly to the band's listeners who go to ACB's concerts.
The crowd asks him to play "The Widow" and he replies "No I won't play that song, to hear you singing it back. It is all wrong." Then he goes on to say that his father, who has now passed away, was never dead, at least not to the people singing back the lyrics to the song, but they sing anyway.
Thanks for agreeing<br /> I thought i might be going too in depth with it<br /> <br /> But then again, this is As Cities Burn we're talking about<br /> <br /> I'm not completely sure about the rest of the song, though
I think also the bit where he says "Old friends we used to talk..." is referring to how he used to talk to fans after shows. He's being completely honest saying "was I really listening? was I just waiting for my turn to talk" (coz when we're talking to people we don't usually stop and wonder if they're really listening or they're just waiting to speak, ya know?) and as a lyricist he has everything to say. For me this song is them saying bye in a way. I think the chorus hints that they're young and they want to do other stuff. The "round and round we go ( I know you hate the sound but baby I just can't stop)" bit might be referring to people's reaction on the changing sound of As Cities Burn. And my favourite line, "hold your head up for the world to spin around" might be directed at fans: they're just a band and the world won't end if they break up (it keeps spinning). Anyway that's my mini essay
Thanks for providing your perspective,Rae<br /> <br /> That seems right<br />
i think that song he's talking about in the beginning could be about "timothy" perhaps. so yeah, i think it's about acb fans who don't know the band and lyricist personally and pretend to.
i guess i interpret the second verse from the mouth of a fan. the lyricist is called "old friend" but the reference is sarcastic as they've only just met. "i got everything to say too" is also sarcastic; everything they're saying is probably unimportant, like hollow small talk, as it is not a real, but only temporary, relationship.
under this interpretation i'm also guessing that "round and round we go" is just refering to things that keep happening and there's not much anyone can do about it so we just deal with it. in the lyricist's case, dealing with acb fans. i'm also guessing "young" is a nice way to say naive and foolish and just getting by with what we think is fun.
i don't know about the very last line though. this is a stretch but it's in my head: we put our hands up in concert while we sing to pretend like we're reaching out and connecting to the music and what it represents, even though we can't pull the band down and have a real relationship with them. (this is like in worship when people raise they're hands in order to "reach out" to god and feel closer to him, which isn't the exact way to actually get close to god.)
all just a guess.