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"
Crawling then walking
And running and sweating
Forgetting
Lying and cheating
Aiding and abetting
Forgetting
And itching and scratching
And punching and hitting
Forgetting, forgetting, forgetting
Forgetting
Reminding rewinding
Removing regretting
Forgetting
Your smiles at the wake and
Your tears at the wedding
Forgetting, forgetting, forgetting
Forgetting
Forgetting, forgetting, forgetting
Forgetting
Spellbound and hell bound
And caught in the netting
Forgetting
A wiping it clean
A minute Armageddon
Forgetting, forgetting, forgetting
Forgetting
Forgetting, forgetting, forgetting
Forgetting
Forgetting, forgetting, forgetting
Forgetting
And running and sweating
Forgetting
Lying and cheating
Aiding and abetting
Forgetting
And itching and scratching
And punching and hitting
Forgetting, forgetting, forgetting
Forgetting
Reminding rewinding
Removing regretting
Forgetting
Your smiles at the wake and
Your tears at the wedding
Forgetting, forgetting, forgetting
Forgetting
Forgetting, forgetting, forgetting
Forgetting
Spellbound and hell bound
And caught in the netting
Forgetting
A wiping it clean
A minute Armageddon
Forgetting, forgetting, forgetting
Forgetting
Forgetting, forgetting, forgetting
Forgetting
Forgetting, forgetting, forgetting
Forgetting
Lyrics submitted by lalajeanne
Forgetting Lyrics as written by David Gray
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It is a beautiful song, when written about Alzheimer suffering, or a sufferer. Moments you now remember but wish to forget,then those harmful ones caused pain, but shocking enough the memory turns to other terribly reminders, so unforgettable, yet true purpose finally reveals itself ending in a loving way, a lesson, you want to hold onto that once an evil, and now a proven treasure, which shall your mind hold onto longest, which are already starting to forget? The love, family love you've felt so deeply, relied on those that were so much of you, a portion of your core, somehow you've watched as it slip away until you no longer remember why you cut them out, or they remove you from their sense of purpose,Forgetting "Who are they?"The Armageddon reference could be a questionable feeling asking is this it, the end, Armageddon, all the pain, suffering, confusion, the moments end? The consistent "forgetting, is he asking did he forget anything, or does he, was he, to forget everything, will he forget in that 1 moment of Armageddon. Any form of forgetting, a blessing, or a curse, maybe a bit of both, maybe nothing at all...a simple act of ones mind to assist the body to get through the stress of a moment, by forgetting...A mother daughter, a ending abilities to simply fit anymore, no life to come back to...too much turmoil, but the song sent...sent to deliver the last message to the other...and what could the true meaning be in these lyrics meant to end final words...Is there ever the word Forgive offered? If not, why not? Is it just best to be forgotten, are the simple meanings of a simply word lost forgotten in its own translation?