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"
Wake up its 5 am
You fell in love again
Something wrong with living life like this
At work can't help but stare
Long legs and her dark brown hair
You give her a smile, and thats about it
This store its 6 pm
You see her face again
You catch her eye
You panic and you walk towards her
Can't think of what to say
No words come up today
So you just smile
And its goodbye
You say "so what"
(You say "so what")
I fell in love
But it just won't work because
(Just won't work because)
I fell in love again
Don't know how it happened
She slipped away again
The same as last weekend
Oh, its a routine thing
Just with some new feelings
I always choke up when
I get close to closing in
So I
Stare straight into the mirror
Hope I find something newer
If not I know
I get shot straight back down
I dress up real nice
Make sure my hair is right
Right down a few lines
To tell her I love her
You say "so what"
(You say "so what")
I fell in love
But it just won't work because
(Just won't work because)
I fell in love again
Don't know how it happened
She slipped away again
The same as last weekend
Oh, its a routine thing
Just with some new feelings
I always choke up when
I get close to closing in
And I'll make her mine
The one I sing about all the time
Cause she's in my dreams
Buts is never as real as
As real as it seems
I'm gonna need
A lot more than her
And maybe
You'll be my baby
Or maybe not
Because I'm all choked up
I fell in love again
Don't know how it happened
She slipped away again
The same as last weekend
Its a routine thing
Just with some new feelings
I always choke up when
I get close to closing in
I get close to closing in
You fell in love again
Something wrong with living life like this
At work can't help but stare
Long legs and her dark brown hair
You give her a smile, and thats about it
This store its 6 pm
You see her face again
You catch her eye
You panic and you walk towards her
Can't think of what to say
No words come up today
So you just smile
And its goodbye
You say "so what"
(You say "so what")
I fell in love
But it just won't work because
(Just won't work because)
I fell in love again
Don't know how it happened
She slipped away again
The same as last weekend
Oh, its a routine thing
Just with some new feelings
I always choke up when
I get close to closing in
So I
Stare straight into the mirror
Hope I find something newer
If not I know
I get shot straight back down
I dress up real nice
Make sure my hair is right
Right down a few lines
To tell her I love her
You say "so what"
(You say "so what")
I fell in love
But it just won't work because
(Just won't work because)
I fell in love again
Don't know how it happened
She slipped away again
The same as last weekend
Oh, its a routine thing
Just with some new feelings
I always choke up when
I get close to closing in
And I'll make her mine
The one I sing about all the time
Cause she's in my dreams
Buts is never as real as
As real as it seems
I'm gonna need
A lot more than her
And maybe
You'll be my baby
Or maybe not
Because I'm all choked up
I fell in love again
Don't know how it happened
She slipped away again
The same as last weekend
Its a routine thing
Just with some new feelings
I always choke up when
I get close to closing in
I get close to closing in
Lyrics submitted by DNDelli
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I really like this song, I wonder why it's not that popular. :P
Towards the end I think it's, "And I'll make her mine, the one I sing about, all the time
I JUST GOT THE EP(: im so happy hahaha. its a lovely song<3
This song is so friggin cute! Pretty self explainitory.
He's got it baaad for his co-worker. But he's too nervous to tell her. :)
Anybody know who sings the "(Just won't work because)" part ? Is that Kenny ?
I love this song so much. It shows a much more vulnerable side of John (because I'm assuming the lyrics are mainly from his point of view) than their other stuff. And the song is basically self-explanatory.