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"
I've got this bear hair beard
growing thick from the eyes, roof of my mouth, and ears
and I feel like I've had at for "this-many-dog-years"
Lately, I've been 2
tomorrow, I'll feel 82, feeling like my head Bluetoothed youth
skin thickens and blood-cells reach Heinz-heights
sketch artist composite pegged onto a Lite-Brite
God bless my shiny architect
zoom out to the marionettes
Number 2 will hold my Village hostage
and the role switches every single time I enter and exit a room
and I won't control me anytime soon
the salt of my tears once did wonders for my acne
but now it just gets soaked into the spiny ivy
Cut down on my hygiene, and I develop jungle-musk
child-like monster drawing bearing long hair and thick tusks
TUSK, from the back
TUSK, from the cheek
TUSK, from my forehead
three more wherever nature wanted
Dear Grace,
I'm feeling like the Lady in the Fireplace
caught like the Doctor in the cytoplasm of Time-Space
and like her,
I waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited
and waited and waited
and you never came
I waited and you never came
I waited and you never came, grace
I waited and you never came
I waited and you never came, grace
I waited and you never came
I waited and you never came, grace
I waited and you never came
I waited and you never came, grace
I waited and you never came
and now he's got these easy, delicate, persuasive hands
Thinks he's got her figured out
I'm dying if he does
I've got no service and a network cable's unplugged
I'm on my twin bed
my feet can touch the floor
bear hair beard on my chest
and I'm crawling on all fours
I waited and you never came
Some things are best left not discussed;
but I must
but I must
but I must
growing thick from the eyes, roof of my mouth, and ears
and I feel like I've had at for "this-many-dog-years"
Lately, I've been 2
tomorrow, I'll feel 82, feeling like my head Bluetoothed youth
skin thickens and blood-cells reach Heinz-heights
sketch artist composite pegged onto a Lite-Brite
God bless my shiny architect
zoom out to the marionettes
Number 2 will hold my Village hostage
and the role switches every single time I enter and exit a room
and I won't control me anytime soon
the salt of my tears once did wonders for my acne
but now it just gets soaked into the spiny ivy
Cut down on my hygiene, and I develop jungle-musk
child-like monster drawing bearing long hair and thick tusks
TUSK, from the back
TUSK, from the cheek
TUSK, from my forehead
three more wherever nature wanted
Dear Grace,
I'm feeling like the Lady in the Fireplace
caught like the Doctor in the cytoplasm of Time-Space
and like her,
I waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited
and waited and waited
and you never came
I waited and you never came
I waited and you never came, grace
I waited and you never came
I waited and you never came, grace
I waited and you never came
I waited and you never came, grace
I waited and you never came
I waited and you never came, grace
I waited and you never came
and now he's got these easy, delicate, persuasive hands
Thinks he's got her figured out
I'm dying if he does
I've got no service and a network cable's unplugged
I'm on my twin bed
my feet can touch the floor
bear hair beard on my chest
and I'm crawling on all fours
I waited and you never came
Some things are best left not discussed;
but I must
but I must
but I must
Lyrics submitted by DarkerShadeofWinter
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