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"
La-la-la-la , yeah
I coulda been the one you noticed
I coulda been all over you
I coulda been like all the others
Is that what I'm supposed to do?
It woulda been really stupid
If I woulda went out with you
To give you everything you wanted
It woulda been way to soon
I try to be sensitive I try to be tough
I try to walk away
I try to be innocent I try to be rough
But I just wanna play
You're my, daydream
You know that I've been thinking about you, lately
And every time I look at you
I can't explain, I feel insane
I can't get away
You're my daydream
La-la-la-la, yeah
If I tell you what I'm thinking
If I let myself trust you
Can you give me what I'm missin'?
Can you make my dreams come true?
I try to be sensitive I try to be tough
I try to walk away
I try to be innocent I try to be rough
But I just wanna play
You're my Daydream
You know that I've been thinking about you lately
And every time I look at you
I can't explain, I feel insane
I can't get away
You're my daydream
I've always wanted someone
I've been waiting so long
Could you be that someone?
Are you my, you my
You're my, you're my
Daydream
You know that I've been thinking about you lately
And every time I look at you
I can't explain I feel insane
I can't get away
You're my daydream
(You're my daydream)
And you know and you know and you know
You're making me insane
(You're my daydream)
And you know and you know and you know
You're doing it again
(You're my daydream)
And you know and you know and you know
You're making me insane
(You're my daydream)
And you know and you know and you know
You're doing it again
I coulda been the one you noticed
I coulda been all over you
I coulda been like all the others
Is that what I'm supposed to do?
It woulda been really stupid
If I woulda went out with you
To give you everything you wanted
It woulda been way to soon
I try to be sensitive I try to be tough
I try to walk away
I try to be innocent I try to be rough
But I just wanna play
You're my, daydream
You know that I've been thinking about you, lately
And every time I look at you
I can't explain, I feel insane
I can't get away
You're my daydream
La-la-la-la, yeah
If I tell you what I'm thinking
If I let myself trust you
Can you give me what I'm missin'?
Can you make my dreams come true?
I try to be sensitive I try to be tough
I try to walk away
I try to be innocent I try to be rough
But I just wanna play
You're my Daydream
You know that I've been thinking about you lately
And every time I look at you
I can't explain, I feel insane
I can't get away
You're my daydream
I've always wanted someone
I've been waiting so long
Could you be that someone?
Are you my, you my
You're my, you're my
Daydream
You know that I've been thinking about you lately
And every time I look at you
I can't explain I feel insane
I can't get away
You're my daydream
(You're my daydream)
And you know and you know and you know
You're making me insane
(You're my daydream)
And you know and you know and you know
You're doing it again
(You're my daydream)
And you know and you know and you know
You're making me insane
(You're my daydream)
And you know and you know and you know
You're doing it again
Lyrics submitted by Breakingbenjaminfan
Daydream Lyrics as written by Avril Lavigne Chantal Kreviazuk
Lyrics © TuneCore Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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