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"
feels like talking to a wall that's rising out of control
like the fish's mind growing numb from circling the bowl
come on now gimme a reason that makes me wanna move on
that makes me wanna fight again
just tell it like it is
gimme a signal show me a sign I've been waiting patiently
I'm running dry still I bleed an everflowing stream
It's like losing all you unconditionally love
It's not the puzzle that's to blame when the pieces won't fall into place
come on now gimme a reason that makes me wanna move on
that makes me wanna fight again
just tell it like it is
come
gimme a signal show me a sign I've been waiting patiently
I'm running dry still I bleed an everflowing stream
I can't take it anymore
there's fire in the hole
get down
gimme a signal show me a sign I've been waiting patiently
I'm running dry still I bleed an everflowing stream
gimme a signal show me a sign I've been waiting patiently
I'm running dry still I bleed an everflowing stream
Just tell it like it is
come on
tell it like it is
I would kill for it
like the fish's mind growing numb from circling the bowl
come on now gimme a reason that makes me wanna move on
that makes me wanna fight again
just tell it like it is
gimme a signal show me a sign I've been waiting patiently
I'm running dry still I bleed an everflowing stream
It's like losing all you unconditionally love
It's not the puzzle that's to blame when the pieces won't fall into place
come on now gimme a reason that makes me wanna move on
that makes me wanna fight again
just tell it like it is
come
gimme a signal show me a sign I've been waiting patiently
I'm running dry still I bleed an everflowing stream
I can't take it anymore
there's fire in the hole
get down
gimme a signal show me a sign I've been waiting patiently
I'm running dry still I bleed an everflowing stream
gimme a signal show me a sign I've been waiting patiently
I'm running dry still I bleed an everflowing stream
Just tell it like it is
come on
tell it like it is
I would kill for it
Lyrics submitted by beentakentoo
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