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"
You and me
Too good to be
Too true to be
Too dumb to see
Where I live
And where you live
Are not the same
We're not to blame
It's too crazy
And far to hard
And way to lazy to make it work
So here I am
I'm still alone
I'm still awake
I'm still afraid
I don't know what day it is
Because I've been up all night
I don't know what week it is
Because I've been up all night
I want to see you
I want to see you
I want to see you
I want to see you
Forever and ever
Forever and ever
Forever and ever
Forever
You and me
Too good to be
Too true to be
Too dumb to see
Where I live
And where you live
Are not the same
We're not to blame
Now you're of in another town
With another girl
Just sittin' around
I'm still here
I'm still alone
I'm still awake
I'm still afraid
I don't know what day it is
Because I've been up all night
I don't know what week it is
Because I've been up all night
I want to see you
I want to see you
I want to see you
I want to see you
Forever and ever
Forever and ever
Forever and ever
Forever
You left me here alone.
You left me here in the cold.
You left me here by the sea
Oh well now all I wish I could see
Is you and me.
I don't know what day it is
Because I've been up all night
I don't know what week it is
Because I've been up all night
I want to see you
I want to see you
I want to see you
I want to see you
Forever and ever
Forever and ever
Forever and ever
Forever
Ooooohhhhh
Too good to be
Too true to be
Too dumb to see
Where I live
And where you live
Are not the same
We're not to blame
It's too crazy
And far to hard
And way to lazy to make it work
So here I am
I'm still alone
I'm still awake
I'm still afraid
I don't know what day it is
Because I've been up all night
I don't know what week it is
Because I've been up all night
I want to see you
I want to see you
I want to see you
I want to see you
Forever and ever
Forever and ever
Forever and ever
Forever
You and me
Too good to be
Too true to be
Too dumb to see
Where I live
And where you live
Are not the same
We're not to blame
Now you're of in another town
With another girl
Just sittin' around
I'm still here
I'm still alone
I'm still awake
I'm still afraid
I don't know what day it is
Because I've been up all night
I don't know what week it is
Because I've been up all night
I want to see you
I want to see you
I want to see you
I want to see you
Forever and ever
Forever and ever
Forever and ever
Forever
You left me here alone.
You left me here in the cold.
You left me here by the sea
Oh well now all I wish I could see
Is you and me.
I don't know what day it is
Because I've been up all night
I don't know what week it is
Because I've been up all night
I want to see you
I want to see you
I want to see you
I want to see you
Forever and ever
Forever and ever
Forever and ever
Forever
Ooooohhhhh
Lyrics submitted by sux4uu, edited by tippy_typewriter, kaiigee
Up All Night Lyrics as written by Bethany Cosentino
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Never alone...had a 'perfect day' with "sex on fire" and someone's who's "only 18." Ya really think I look at the postings and my favorite artists. LOL. YOu're so predictable you have become more BORING than any man/woman I've ever had the misfortune of knowing.
it's actually "and far too bored" not "far too hard."
yeah i did all of these by ear so correct me if i'm wrong about any lyricsss
"You and me Too good to be Too true to be Too dumb to see That where I live And where you live Are not the same We're not to blame Just too crazy And far too bored* And way too lazy to make it work"