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"
Matchbooks under cigarettes
Lighting your silhouette
Just accept I'll say anything
This place is a mess you think
Buy you another drink
Another drink anything you want
'Bout time that you lose your friends
Back to my place
I don't want to talk
I want everything
Are you driving me home?
Are you driving me home?
Street lights on your coma eyes
I'm in no shape to drive
Besides you're fine
I'll say anything
Get us out of the parking lot
Swerving behind the cops
Eyes on the road
I got everything you want
Like secrets to haunt
I got memories to block
I got the gun
To blow everything
Are you driving me home?
Are you driving me home?
I will be the razor baby
I will be the pill
I am the ambulance that never comes
The antidote you spill
And in the accident
I�ll be the failure in your brakes
I am the truth you couldn't take
I am the mistake
Worst you ever made
Your doubts follow you through the door
What do you do it for?
You need more and more
To feel anything
Each night and it�s someone else
It's the last time you can tell yourself
You can tell yourself
Anything you want
Coat off and you climb the stairs
Intentions are very clear
I don't want to talk
I want everything
Are you driving me home?
Are you driving me home?
I will be the razor baby
I will be the pill
I am the ambulance that never comes
The antidote you spill
And in the accident
I'll be the failure in your brakes
I am the truth you couldn�t take
I am the mistake
Worst you ever made
I will be the razor baby
I will be the pill
I am the ambulance that never comes
The antidote you spill
And in the accident
I'll be the failure in your brakes
I am the truth you couldn't take
I am the mistake
I will be the razor baby
I will be the pill
I am the ambulance that never comes
The antidote you spill
And in the accident
I�ll be the failure in your brakes
I am the truth you couldn�t take
I am the mistake
Worst you ever made
Lighting your silhouette
Just accept I'll say anything
This place is a mess you think
Buy you another drink
Another drink anything you want
'Bout time that you lose your friends
Back to my place
I don't want to talk
I want everything
Are you driving me home?
Are you driving me home?
Street lights on your coma eyes
I'm in no shape to drive
Besides you're fine
I'll say anything
Get us out of the parking lot
Swerving behind the cops
Eyes on the road
I got everything you want
Like secrets to haunt
I got memories to block
I got the gun
To blow everything
Are you driving me home?
Are you driving me home?
I will be the razor baby
I will be the pill
I am the ambulance that never comes
The antidote you spill
And in the accident
I�ll be the failure in your brakes
I am the truth you couldn't take
I am the mistake
Worst you ever made
Your doubts follow you through the door
What do you do it for?
You need more and more
To feel anything
Each night and it�s someone else
It's the last time you can tell yourself
You can tell yourself
Anything you want
Coat off and you climb the stairs
Intentions are very clear
I don't want to talk
I want everything
Are you driving me home?
Are you driving me home?
I will be the razor baby
I will be the pill
I am the ambulance that never comes
The antidote you spill
And in the accident
I'll be the failure in your brakes
I am the truth you couldn�t take
I am the mistake
Worst you ever made
I will be the razor baby
I will be the pill
I am the ambulance that never comes
The antidote you spill
And in the accident
I'll be the failure in your brakes
I am the truth you couldn't take
I am the mistake
I will be the razor baby
I will be the pill
I am the ambulance that never comes
The antidote you spill
And in the accident
I�ll be the failure in your brakes
I am the truth you couldn�t take
I am the mistake
Worst you ever made
Lyrics submitted by thedarkhasnoplacehere
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Perhaps I am taking it too literal but its sounds like a one night stand that will be filled with regret.
Perhaps I am taking it too literal but its sounds like a one night stand that will be filled with regret.
Definitely about a one night stand. This one seems to be just the latest in a string of one night stands for the girl, and the guy claims to be the biggest mistake that she's ever going to make.
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