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"
It's only been a year
But it feels like a lifetime here
How's it been for you?
Does it feel like a lifetime too?
What would you do now in light of it all?
I don't regret it in spite of it all
If I can't convince you then nobody can I guess
I've got too much time on my hands
But you don't understand
Or you won't understand
Would I make it right?
Would it make you less uptight?
What would it achieve?
What should I put up my sleeve?
What did you think would come out of it all?
That we'd quit pretending we doubted it all?
Oh, you don't make me nervous, hell, nobody does these days
I've got too much time on my hands
But you don't understand
Or you won't understand
I've got too much time on my hands
But you don't understand
Or you won't understand
Are you ready, are you ready, are you ready for this?
Should I shake your hand or should I give you a kiss?
Is this everything you always hoped that it would be?
We'll see
I've got too much time on my hands
But you don't understand
Or you won't understand
I've got too much time on my hands
But you don't understand
Or you won't understand
But it feels like a lifetime here
How's it been for you?
Does it feel like a lifetime too?
What would you do now in light of it all?
I don't regret it in spite of it all
If I can't convince you then nobody can I guess
I've got too much time on my hands
But you don't understand
Or you won't understand
Would I make it right?
Would it make you less uptight?
What would it achieve?
What should I put up my sleeve?
What did you think would come out of it all?
That we'd quit pretending we doubted it all?
Oh, you don't make me nervous, hell, nobody does these days
I've got too much time on my hands
But you don't understand
Or you won't understand
I've got too much time on my hands
But you don't understand
Or you won't understand
Are you ready, are you ready, are you ready for this?
Should I shake your hand or should I give you a kiss?
Is this everything you always hoped that it would be?
We'll see
I've got too much time on my hands
But you don't understand
Or you won't understand
I've got too much time on my hands
But you don't understand
Or you won't understand
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I think the too much time on my hands part is because he's over-thinking everything throughout the rest of the song.
i think its a song about an event where he saw his father for the first time in a year, and they haven't been talking either (should i shake your hand or should i give you a kiss), since there are other songs where where he reveals that his relationship with his father isn't great
i think it's his father who tells him he has too much time on his hands; meaning his thinks he hasn't done enough with his life to where he'd be busy; he doesn't approve of his life choices (if i can't convince you then nobody can i guess)
The song is about a guy who had a rellationship that ended about an year ago, but he still likes her and because they just met again he's asking her if she missed him through all this time. Since he likes her, the guy wonders if they would be fine together again, if he would change and try to get away with his defects because even after an year he doesnt feel with anyone the way he used to feel with her. He has much time to figure out what he wants in the future they could have but she wouldn't understand the way he feels, just like in the past.
In my own interpretation I think that this song its about a long distance relationship and he just wanna move on with his life but the girl try to avoid the break up and pretend that they are still together.
It's only been a year But it feels like a lifetime here How's it been for you? Does it feel like a lifetime too?
Maybe he dont see her since a year but they are still a couple.
What would you do now in light of it all? I don't regret it in spite of it all If I can't convince you then nobody can I guess
Maybe he wanna told to her that the relationship is over but she is blind to that.
I've got too much time on my hands But you don't understand Or you won't understand
She dont wanna understand that he just wanna be free and alone to find another person because maybe the relationship goes wrong
Would I make it right?
Maybe the way to tell her the truth of the end of the relationship
Would it make you less uptight?
In the best possible way , to end in good terms.
What would it achieve? What should I put up my sleeve?
Finally broke up with her.
What did you think would come out of it all? That we'd quit pretending we doubted it all? Oh you don't make me nervous, hell nobody does these days
He is just tired of pretend to still be with someone who doesnt feel nothing at all. The first two lines make the point of the end and stop faking the relationship.
I've got too much time on my hands But you don't understand Or you won't understand I've got too much time on my hands But you don't understand Or you won't understand
Are you ready, are you ready, are you ready for this? Should I shake your hand or should I give you a kiss? Is this everything you always hoped that it would be? We'll see...
This part is totally in a sarcastic way, The way that he sings that part makes me think that he is just sick of the situation. The second line says: Should I shake your hand or should I give you a kiss? he dont wanna that and just is tired of pretend do that many times. He dont wanna be with her anymore. He just wanna get away of it.
I've got too much time on my hands But you don't understand Or you won't understand I've got too much time on my hands But you don't understand Or you won't understand
Looking for freedom in a bad relationship, I guess. Awesome song.
nobody understand