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'm gonna go on
Livin' like I never met you
And it'll feel wrong at first
But I think I can forget you
Ignore the fact that we sleep
No more than three feet apart
I feel you now
You're all around me, underneath me
You're all around me, underneath me
Well, how was I to know
That what we carved in stone
Would be so temporary?
Well, how was I to know
That my first crack in luck
Would not be the last?
It won't be the last
It's in the air now
Bitter tears and broken hearts
We're teenagers
We count the years we think we're smart
But we're not
We don't know anything
So don't ask me where I'll go
'Cause, frankly, I don't know
And I don't give a shit
Why must we all make sense?
Oh, I just won't make sense
For once, I'm just gonna live
I'm just gonna live
We're teenagers
(We don't know anything)
We're teenagers
(We don't know anything)
Well, how was I to know
That what we carved in stone
Would be so temporary?
(I'm gonna go on)
Why must we all make sense?
Oh, I just won't make sense
For once, I'm just gonna live
I'm just gonna live
Livin' like I never met you
And it'll feel wrong at first
But I think I can forget you
Ignore the fact that we sleep
No more than three feet apart
I feel you now
You're all around me, underneath me
You're all around me, underneath me
Well, how was I to know
That what we carved in stone
Would be so temporary?
Well, how was I to know
That my first crack in luck
Would not be the last?
It won't be the last
It's in the air now
Bitter tears and broken hearts
We're teenagers
We count the years we think we're smart
But we're not
We don't know anything
So don't ask me where I'll go
'Cause, frankly, I don't know
And I don't give a shit
Why must we all make sense?
Oh, I just won't make sense
For once, I'm just gonna live
I'm just gonna live
We're teenagers
(We don't know anything)
We're teenagers
(We don't know anything)
Well, how was I to know
That what we carved in stone
Would be so temporary?
(I'm gonna go on)
Why must we all make sense?
Oh, I just won't make sense
For once, I'm just gonna live
I'm just gonna live
Lyrics submitted by aristuma21
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I think this song is about Hayley's teenage-years, and how she felt and acted and what happened. That's probably why the lines:
"Ignore the fact that we sleep No more than three feet apart"
is in it, which probably is about Josh and her touring together.
I like the song, but I can't really relate to it. Yeah, I'm a teenager, but I've never been and probably never will be that cocky I-know-everthing-and-I'm-so-awesome type of teenager. I just feel a bit attacked by it, even though I know that's not the point :P Haha, I felt the same to Taylor Swifts "Fifteen".
I agree with lizzie88, but i also see a loss of innocence in this song (And it'll feel wrong at first But I think I can forget you) And making a transition into being a cocky teenager (We count the years we think we're smart But we're not We don't know anything) And being lost in life, but not wanting to admit it (So don't ask me where I'll go 'Cause, frankly, I don't know And I don't give a sh**) And finally realizing that you aren't the greatest, smartest thing to walk the earth (Why must we all make sense? Oh, I just won't make sense For once, I'm just gonna live I'm just gonna live). Honestly I just see it as what being a teenager is all about.
I actually really like this song, but I think it would sound so much better if it was an actual Paramore song and not a Hayley song. I just think the band could complete the song.
"Ignore the fact that we sleep no more then 3 feet apart".
I hate to be the one to say this, but this song kind of seems to be about Josh.
i thought that the second i read it.
Err, wait, now that I think about it, it seems to be about the whole band. I don't know why I looked at this in a romantic sort of light. The more I read the words, the more it seems to be about the ENTIRE band's issues.
This song if for the movie "Jennifer's Body" with Megan Fox. The "sleep more than 3 feet apart" thing refers to the fact that in the movie Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried are roommates. I know Hayley wrote a version of this song way back when, but that line is clearly for the movie. The whole band might be playing in this song, because I can't think of anyone else who would be on the instruments... I doubt Hayley would use random musicians for a soundtrack song.
Well how do you know for sure that that's what she's referring to?
"i wrote a song a long time ago by myself and the people from the movie asked me if they could use it. it’s not going to be sold as a single and it won’t be promoted other than just being on the tracklisting. don’t worry, this isn’t the beginning of the hayley williams project hahaha. i just write a lot and this randomly got picked up cause janick had it. our priority is the new album and that’s what is the complete focus of all of us. with that said, “teenagers” means a lot to me and i hope you guys enjoy it!"
"The whole band might be playing in this song, because I can't think of anyone else who would be on the instruments... I doubt Hayley would use random musicians for a soundtrack song."<br /> <br /> hayley plays all the instruments herself in this song. :)
plus, you know, they're not really roommates in the movie.
*is for the movie Jennifer's Body.
Typo!
I really love this song. I wish it was longer.
And if Hayley did ever decide to do something on her own, I would listen if this was going to be her style.
Confusion about being a teenager, dealing with first broken relationship/friendship, da da da. Pretty straightforward.
The second my friend heard the lyrics of this song she linked it to me and this guy Im having a HUGE row with. He wont let me 'move on' and Im trying to forget him...its an awsome song. Kinda the stage Im at, a cocky teen - 'We count the years, we think we're smart, but we're not' Kinda like how teens think because they're 14, 15, 16 plus, they're the best. But they're just naive. And stuff. Kinda makes me think of someone trying to get over what they did naively because they thought they were smart enough, when really they're just a teen. Just like me really :D