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"
There's no yellow bricks to follow back and run from that disaster
Familiar sins come crashing in and sever forever and after
My old friend, it's time I leave you here for once, for all in frozen alabaster
Believe me, there's no place like home
There's no place like home
A shallow grave where I can keep it safe or hideaway, for just in case I need it
My old friend, it's time to say goodbye again
No need to tell me where you've been, I feel it
Shallow graves for shallow hearts
For pick-me-ups and fall-aparts
For promises that never started right
Carolina, Carolina, tell me how I'm gonna get down from here
You only ever just disappear, but I can't let you go
Carolina, Carolina, tell you I'm gonna get the ending right
I know I started it wrong but I, I think that it's as easy as
One, two, three, do you see what I do?
Truth or dare, yes I double dare you
You, you, me, now I think you got it right
(There's no place like home)
Oh, another day on the assembly line
Everybody better march in time
Cause the fact that we don't care why
You've been saying, "Coulda, shoulda, woulda"
Oh, another day on the assembly line
Everybody better march in time
Cause the fact that we don't care why
You've been saying, "Coulda, shoulda, woulda"
Toy soldiers, will you follow?
Toy soldiers, will you follow?
Face when it's dire
This is true love, ever after
This is true love, ever after
True love, ever after
This is true love, ever after
Once upon a time, this place was beautiful and mine
But now it's just a bottom line
There's no yellow bricks but
Happily ever after we lived,
The end
Familiar sins come crashing in and sever forever and after
My old friend, it's time I leave you here for once, for all in frozen alabaster
Believe me, there's no place like home
There's no place like home
A shallow grave where I can keep it safe or hideaway, for just in case I need it
My old friend, it's time to say goodbye again
No need to tell me where you've been, I feel it
Shallow graves for shallow hearts
For pick-me-ups and fall-aparts
For promises that never started right
Carolina, Carolina, tell me how I'm gonna get down from here
You only ever just disappear, but I can't let you go
Carolina, Carolina, tell you I'm gonna get the ending right
I know I started it wrong but I, I think that it's as easy as
One, two, three, do you see what I do?
Truth or dare, yes I double dare you
You, you, me, now I think you got it right
(There's no place like home)
Oh, another day on the assembly line
Everybody better march in time
Cause the fact that we don't care why
You've been saying, "Coulda, shoulda, woulda"
Oh, another day on the assembly line
Everybody better march in time
Cause the fact that we don't care why
You've been saying, "Coulda, shoulda, woulda"
Toy soldiers, will you follow?
Toy soldiers, will you follow?
Face when it's dire
This is true love, ever after
This is true love, ever after
True love, ever after
This is true love, ever after
Once upon a time, this place was beautiful and mine
But now it's just a bottom line
There's no yellow bricks but
Happily ever after we lived,
The end
Lyrics submitted by xalixo
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