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"
Train station on my head
Passengers running around
I think I’ll just go back to bed
And make an escape from the sound
I wish that I could say that I didn’t care
I wish that I could say that I don’t believe
Talking to myself in my underwear
But I could never leave.
And I know
In time this shit
Will hardly ever cross my mind again
And I know
Like you said
I’ve always been a bit too sensitive for a man
Here comes the boulevard
Look both ways when you watch for cars
Little girl you already said
What’s gotten into you?
Traffic jam up ahead
Feeling kind of unprepared
I think I’ll look away instead
Cause I don’t want to end up there
But I’m down here
I wish that I could say that I didn’t care
I wish that I could say that I don’t believe
Talking to myself in my underwear
But I could never leave.
And I know
In time this shit
Will hardly ever cross my mind again
And I know
Like you said
I’ve always been a bit too sensitive for a man
Here comes the boulevard
Look both ways when you watch for cars
Little girl you already said
What’s gotten into you?
By the time you’re calling, I’ve fallen asleep
By the time you’re calling, I’ve fallen asleep
And I know
In time this shit
Will hardly ever cross my mind again
And I know
Like you said
I’ve always been a bit too sensitive for a man
And I know
In time this shit
Will hardly ever cross my mind again
And I know
Like you said
I’ve always been a bit too sensitive for a man
Here comes the boulevard
Look both ways when you watch for cars
Little girl you already said
What’s gotten into you?
Passengers running around
I think I’ll just go back to bed
And make an escape from the sound
I wish that I could say that I didn’t care
I wish that I could say that I don’t believe
Talking to myself in my underwear
But I could never leave.
And I know
In time this shit
Will hardly ever cross my mind again
And I know
Like you said
I’ve always been a bit too sensitive for a man
Here comes the boulevard
Look both ways when you watch for cars
Little girl you already said
What’s gotten into you?
Traffic jam up ahead
Feeling kind of unprepared
I think I’ll look away instead
Cause I don’t want to end up there
But I’m down here
I wish that I could say that I didn’t care
I wish that I could say that I don’t believe
Talking to myself in my underwear
But I could never leave.
And I know
In time this shit
Will hardly ever cross my mind again
And I know
Like you said
I’ve always been a bit too sensitive for a man
Here comes the boulevard
Look both ways when you watch for cars
Little girl you already said
What’s gotten into you?
By the time you’re calling, I’ve fallen asleep
By the time you’re calling, I’ve fallen asleep
And I know
In time this shit
Will hardly ever cross my mind again
And I know
Like you said
I’ve always been a bit too sensitive for a man
And I know
In time this shit
Will hardly ever cross my mind again
And I know
Like you said
I’ve always been a bit too sensitive for a man
Here comes the boulevard
Look both ways when you watch for cars
Little girl you already said
What’s gotten into you?
Lyrics submitted by AnieS
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The line "little girl you already said" should be "little girl, you were reticent"
CANT BELIEVE IT. first comment??? really people. this song is great. definitely SOML. not hard to interpret "song meaning" "i wish i could say I didn't care. I wish I could say that I don't believe... but I could never leave" "and I know in time this shit will hardly cross my mind."
I LOVE LADY DANVILLE.