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"
This town used to be a pretty place to stay
A place you'd stop off on the highway
But all of those things changed on the day
You packed up your bags and you ran away
All they say is how you've changed
Every day I stay the same
So you can keep the necklace that I gave to you
I'll keep the shitty tattoos
I can see it from the other side
The grass isn't always as green
The house is burnt to ashes
I'm no longer in between
R.I.P., R.I.P.
You and me (x2)
I count the empty bottles up on the bar
But I give up; I can't count that far
And the lights in this place are too dim to see
They're kickin' me out
It's a quarter past three
They tell me you're all I've got
I just need these dreams to stop
You can keep the necklace that I gave to you
I'll keep the shitty tattoos
I can see it from the other side
The grass isn't always as green
The house is burnt to ashes
I'm no longer in between
R.I.P., R.I.P.
You and me (x2)
In the back of the car
On the way to your home
In the pouring rain
On the side of road
In the light of the street
In the recline of the seat
You told me I should move on (x2)
I can see it from the other side
The grass isn't always as green
The house is burnt to ashes
I'm no longer in between
R.I.P., R.I.P.
You and me (x2)
A place you'd stop off on the highway
But all of those things changed on the day
You packed up your bags and you ran away
All they say is how you've changed
Every day I stay the same
So you can keep the necklace that I gave to you
I'll keep the shitty tattoos
I can see it from the other side
The grass isn't always as green
The house is burnt to ashes
I'm no longer in between
R.I.P., R.I.P.
You and me (x2)
I count the empty bottles up on the bar
But I give up; I can't count that far
And the lights in this place are too dim to see
They're kickin' me out
It's a quarter past three
They tell me you're all I've got
I just need these dreams to stop
You can keep the necklace that I gave to you
I'll keep the shitty tattoos
I can see it from the other side
The grass isn't always as green
The house is burnt to ashes
I'm no longer in between
R.I.P., R.I.P.
You and me (x2)
In the back of the car
On the way to your home
In the pouring rain
On the side of road
In the light of the street
In the recline of the seat
You told me I should move on (x2)
I can see it from the other side
The grass isn't always as green
The house is burnt to ashes
I'm no longer in between
R.I.P., R.I.P.
You and me (x2)
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
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This is one of my favorite songs from Streets of Gold. I think it's pretty clearly about a relationship that has ended and the girl has moved on but he hasn't. In my opinion, 3OH!3 does just as well with meaningful songs as they do with fun, catchy pop songs. I like how they switch it up sometimes.
i agree, i think this is the best song from Streets of Gold. i love this part.. "I can see it from the other side The grass isn't always as green The house is burnt to ashes I'm no longer in between"
i think it means that they see reality now and that it isn't going to work out or that person just isn't right for them. and "i'm no longer in between" shoes that the person isn't confused anymore...they aren't in denial about the situation. they know that they just need to let the other person go.
Lovee it. Absolutley agree;is best of Streets of Gold. That or Touchin on my (: xcaitlyncaliforniaax
I dont think he's over her in this song. I think he understands that the relationship is over for good with the way he says "you can keep the necklace that I gave to you/ Ill keep the shitty tattoos", but the song also insinuates that he's been out drinking, which shows he's upset about it, and it says that she's telling him to move on, so he obviously hasnt yet. Also, the chorus "I can see it from the other side, the grass isn't always as green, the house is burned to ashes, I'm no longer in between", he's saying that the grass isnt as green on the other side, showing that he misses the life he had with her, because it was "greener".
@chelkel09 i thought that issa idiom. That 'the grass always greener on the other side' one. Which meant that he think she is in a better situation, although she might not be
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