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 met you at the jetti with a one track mind
it was 2 in the morning and a quarter-mile wide to go
before we lose control
keying cars under stars setting off the alarms
kinda hope we get caught cos at least
we ll have something to say
instead of wasting away
c'mon and light me up
whoah ohh ohh ohh
but dont say that you're heading for a breakdown
whoah ohh ohh ohh
caught in the middle of a fire island freakout
In the summer we recover from inaudible streets
but when the sound of the crowd is worse than the heat
you know, you're gonna lose control
we should've never left ocean for the second-hand thrill
now we're caught red-handed and we cant leave town until
until they say we will or we wont
we gotta find a way to stay afloat
cmon and light me up
whoah ohh ohh ohh
but dont say that you're heading for a breakdown
whoah ohh ohh ohh
caught in the middle of a fire island freakout
whoah ohh ohh ohh
dont say that you are heading for a freakout
whoah ohh ohh ohh
but dont say that you're heading for a breakdown
whoah ohh ohh ohh
caught in the middle of a fire island freakout
whoah oh oh oh
dont say that you're gonna get out tonight
dont tell me that you're gonna black out the light
dont you understand its just another little
fire island freakout
it was 2 in the morning and a quarter-mile wide to go
before we lose control
keying cars under stars setting off the alarms
kinda hope we get caught cos at least
we ll have something to say
instead of wasting away
c'mon and light me up
whoah ohh ohh ohh
but dont say that you're heading for a breakdown
whoah ohh ohh ohh
caught in the middle of a fire island freakout
In the summer we recover from inaudible streets
but when the sound of the crowd is worse than the heat
you know, you're gonna lose control
we should've never left ocean for the second-hand thrill
now we're caught red-handed and we cant leave town until
until they say we will or we wont
we gotta find a way to stay afloat
cmon and light me up
whoah ohh ohh ohh
but dont say that you're heading for a breakdown
whoah ohh ohh ohh
caught in the middle of a fire island freakout
whoah ohh ohh ohh
dont say that you are heading for a freakout
whoah ohh ohh ohh
but dont say that you're heading for a breakdown
whoah ohh ohh ohh
caught in the middle of a fire island freakout
whoah oh oh oh
dont say that you're gonna get out tonight
dont tell me that you're gonna black out the light
dont you understand its just another little
fire island freakout
Lyrics submitted by sparklebbyshine
Fire Island Freakout Lyrics as written by Josh Ocean La Violette William Mcauley Iii
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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