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"
Remember when I found a broken branch
And shoved it through your bicycle spokes
And how remorse quickly took it's stance
When you hit the deck and broke your nose
You were always the emo type
Straightened hair matched to a bitter tone
Well I don't care much for fashion or socialites
The nihilists always get my vote
All she ever wanted was a little direction
All she ever needed was a friend
All she ever made were the worst impressions
All she ever did was offend
You're the only one to fail my sex drive
Will you or won't you?
Valentine, valentine
Valentine, valentine
Remember when you laid me on my back
And performed to me my favourite song
And how i shivered up on it's climax
And those lips still plague my thoughts ten years on
You were always the emo type
Straightened hair matched to a bitter tone
Well i dont care much for fashion or socialites
The nihilists always get my vote
All she ever wanted was a little direction
All she ever needed was a friend
All she ever made were the worst impressions
All she ever did was offend
You're the only one to fail my sex drive
Will you or won't you?
Valentine, valentine
Valentine, valentine
Valentine, valentine
Valentine, valentine
All she ever wanted was a little direction
Far away from this broken sea
And all I ever needed was some domination
From a girl with low self esteem
I think we share the same blood type
Will you or won't you?
Valentine
And shoved it through your bicycle spokes
And how remorse quickly took it's stance
When you hit the deck and broke your nose
You were always the emo type
Straightened hair matched to a bitter tone
Well I don't care much for fashion or socialites
The nihilists always get my vote
All she ever wanted was a little direction
All she ever needed was a friend
All she ever made were the worst impressions
All she ever did was offend
You're the only one to fail my sex drive
Will you or won't you?
Valentine, valentine
Valentine, valentine
Remember when you laid me on my back
And performed to me my favourite song
And how i shivered up on it's climax
And those lips still plague my thoughts ten years on
You were always the emo type
Straightened hair matched to a bitter tone
Well i dont care much for fashion or socialites
The nihilists always get my vote
All she ever wanted was a little direction
All she ever needed was a friend
All she ever made were the worst impressions
All she ever did was offend
You're the only one to fail my sex drive
Will you or won't you?
Valentine, valentine
Valentine, valentine
Valentine, valentine
Valentine, valentine
All she ever wanted was a little direction
Far away from this broken sea
And all I ever needed was some domination
From a girl with low self esteem
I think we share the same blood type
Will you or won't you?
Valentine
Lyrics submitted by heatherrxxx, edited by qapiojg
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'The nihilists always get my vote'
Thanks, that's what it sounded like, but I didn't know what nihilists were so I just put question marks. I'll change it now (:
I mean I didn't know what they were as in I didn't know if they were real or he was saying something else or something S:
hi, i think its 'you're the only one to find my sex drive' :)
You're the only one to FAIL my sex drive