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"
The way that I feel, and what's supposed to be real strongly disagree
There is one thing I keep in front of me
'Cause cash won't save, cars won't transcend the grave
I call everyone I know the only things of value I could ever own
It worries my mind knowing days of my life slowly disappear
Is there something that I should be doing here with my time?
Should I fall in line? I can't chase the American Dream
Trading life for money never made much sense to me
And some may say that I'm already gone but I say
"Hey, if I'm wrong at all for living this way? I'm alright being wrong"
And I say, "Hey, as I slowly let possession slip away I feel I belong
I'm alright being wrong"
I try and I try to find appeal in 9 to 5, but I never win
Stuck in days that don't seem to begin
The answer I find to the question in mind
King of diamonds, king of hearts?
One dies loved, and one is dead from the very start
Things like this aren't hard to resist
As my mind persists allowing absolutely no interest
In things that fade as fast as they accumulate
I refuse to bury myself that way
There is one thing I keep in front of me
'Cause cash won't save, cars won't transcend the grave
I call everyone I know the only things of value I could ever own
It worries my mind knowing days of my life slowly disappear
Is there something that I should be doing here with my time?
Should I fall in line? I can't chase the American Dream
Trading life for money never made much sense to me
And some may say that I'm already gone but I say
"Hey, if I'm wrong at all for living this way? I'm alright being wrong"
And I say, "Hey, as I slowly let possession slip away I feel I belong
I'm alright being wrong"
I try and I try to find appeal in 9 to 5, but I never win
Stuck in days that don't seem to begin
The answer I find to the question in mind
King of diamonds, king of hearts?
One dies loved, and one is dead from the very start
Things like this aren't hard to resist
As my mind persists allowing absolutely no interest
In things that fade as fast as they accumulate
I refuse to bury myself that way
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I dont think this song as anything to do with religon. I think what there trying to say is that the everyday life of the normal american citizen isnt really living at all. somebody probably told them that the life of a rockstar is very unstable and that they could become unpopular at any second, that a 9 to 5 job is a better chioce. so they say "Hey, if I'm wrong at all for living this way? I'm alright being wrong" and I say, "Hey, as I slowly let possession slip away I feel I belong I'm alright being wrong."
I think you hit the nail on the head, <br /> <br /> Also an interesting line to consider is this:<br /> <br /> "King of diamonds, king of hearts?<br /> One dies loved, and one is dead from the very start"<br /> <br /> My first listen I thought he was simply stating that he'd rather be the king of hearts than of diamonds. But the line doubles in meaning when you take into consideration that the "Suicide King" (The only of the four kings of a card deck to be depicted with a knife in his neck) is the king of hearts. <br /> <br /> If this is the author's intent, then we can assume that it is actually the king of hearts that is dead from the very start, and the king of diamonds who dies loved. Maybe his intention with this particular line isn't to say which of these he would chose to be, but to point out that society adores the affluent.
Naw naw naw.....i disagree, the lyric "cause cash wont save, cars wont trenscend the grave?" There is only one thing that has EVER trancended the grave and that is a man called Jesus. People are ridiculed for living for Jesus and say they are living wrong (Matthew 10:22) So hes letting them know "if im wrong for living this way, im alright being wrong." and then you guys missed the last stanza! "Things like this aren't hard to resist As my mind persists allowing absolutely no interest In things that fade as fast as they accumulate I refuse to bury myself that way." He's not leetting the possesions of this world grasp his interest, because they cant satisfy him the way God can.<br /> <br /> Its definitely a song about living the Christian life. <br /> <br />
your way wrong spencer. brandon the singer has never been a fan of religion. in fact hes an atheist. he talks about his disgust with the church in the song born again question. and the line you talk about is saying that when you die you dont take posessions wirh you cars wont transcend the grave to put it simpy your way off haha.its not that complicated. hes alright living the life he lives, he doesnt need material stuff more than friends and family. hes even explained it before on his tumblr.