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 your face is all see, I'll tell you why
When you hurry past me, don't believe that I
Just wanna make you breach security
My world gets ugly when you're not with me
I get laughed at
I wanna be like you, dude
If you're a target
Then I guess I'm one too
I don't believe you, but I won't believe them too
You mount, and I got nothing left to do
Of problem's that I think of in my sleep
I don't want nothing, nothing wrong with me
I get laughed at
I wanna be like you, dude
If you're a target
Then I guess I'm one too
No matter what
I'm already gone
No matter what
I can't think at all
And your face is all see, I'll tell you why
When you hurry past me, don't believe that I
Just wanna make you breach security
My world gets ugly when you're not with me
I get laughed at
I wanna be like you, dude
If you're a target
Then I guess I'm one too
When you hurry past me, don't believe that I
Just wanna make you breach security
My world gets ugly when you're not with me
I get laughed at
I wanna be like you, dude
If you're a target
Then I guess I'm one too
I don't believe you, but I won't believe them too
You mount, and I got nothing left to do
Of problem's that I think of in my sleep
I don't want nothing, nothing wrong with me
I get laughed at
I wanna be like you, dude
If you're a target
Then I guess I'm one too
No matter what
I'm already gone
No matter what
I can't think at all
And your face is all see, I'll tell you why
When you hurry past me, don't believe that I
Just wanna make you breach security
My world gets ugly when you're not with me
I get laughed at
I wanna be like you, dude
If you're a target
Then I guess I'm one too
Lyrics submitted by gmags2003
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And your face is all I see to take you out When you hurry past me, don't believe that I Just want to make you [breathe?] security My world gets ugly when you're not with me I get laughed at I wanna be like you do If you're a target Then I guess I'm one too
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No matter what I'm already gone No matter what I can't think at all
Your face is all I see to take you out When you hurry past me, don't believe that I Just want to make you [breathe?] security My world gets ugly when you're not with me I get laughed at I wanna be like you do If you're a target Then I guess I'm one too
And your face is all see, I'll tell you why When you hurry past me, don't believe that I Just wanna make you breach security My world gets ugly when you're not with me
I get laughed at I wanna be like you, dude If you're a target Then I guess I'm one too
I don't believe you, but I won't believe them too You mount, and I got nothing left to do Of problem's that I think of in my sleep I don't want nothing, nothing wrong with me
I get laughed at I wanna be like you, dude If you're a target Then I guess I'm one too
No matter what I'm already gone
No matter what I can't think at all
And your face is all see, I'll tell you why When you hurry past me, don't believe that I Just wanna make you breach security My world gets ugly when you're not with me
I get laughed at I wanna be like you, dude If you're a target Then I guess I'm one too
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I'm always hearing this song on satellite radio.
well it was the radio you get when you get digital cable. not quite as good as satellite radio. but i've done some follow up on them. they are awesome. i hope rocknroll sounds make a resurgence soon. these guys are a good shot at it.