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'm fuckin' walkin'
I'm fuckin' walkin' out in the moon light
After midnight searching for you
Out After midnight searchin' lerkin' hurtin' howlin'
At the fuckin' moon I watch the neighbors closing curtains turning
Out the porch lights and I don't even know why
On a stroll all alony like nobodies gonna die
I'm just looking for the answers to the questions that I'm asking
More lost then when I started darted
This means that time is passing barely grasping
To the moment and irrational thoughts
And this prescription in my pocket got me feeling distraught
Its just a matter of time I feel my brain is growing vacant
What the fuck is going on I'm like an old timers patient
And this situation it seems like deja vu
I wish I had an explanation and I pray I knew
How I got to where I'm going what I'm trying to find
Looking for my sanity but I lost my fuckin mind
No where to be found I think I need some fuckin help
Walking after midnight and I'm searching for myself
[Chorus]
I'm fucking walking (fucking walking)
Out in the moonlight (through the darkness)
After midnight (hay)
Searching for you (I'm trying to find you)
Right foot over left
Left foot over right
I let my dog out to piss in the middle of the night
In my backyard illuminated by the moonlight
Was a women in the haze and from the back she's looking tight
Worry not he don't bite but why are you in my yard miss
She waved me on to fallow and then ran into the darkness
All I had on were slippers still a gave a chase
Fallowing an angle and I have yet to see her face
With ease she passes through trees her gown blows in the breeze
I'm slapping though puddles and scratching up my knees
Please tell me your name and where the hell where headed
To the cemetery where the answers are imbedded on her tombstone
She's home
She stopped running
I finally caught up and was about to ask something
When she turned around a demon
A snake for a tongue
And it bite me food for the dead I've become
[Chorus: x2]
What's ding-a-linging nothing in my drawer
Chasing after that dragon but not the hara boy
Its big and shinny and dripping with blood
Why'd I do
Because I said that I could
Now my only problem I'm looking for that tool
When I hit him with it all I seen was dripping n drool
But I put it somewhere
Where
We can all guess
The simple fact is I blacked out and slit her neck
Back to the problem at hand
Memories of motherfucker wit him looking for that murder weapon
If I had recollection I wouldn't have to sweat police
Now my drawers are open sweating trying to find this piece
I can't miss it if I see it wooden handle shinny edge
Shredding it every angle as if I jump off a league
Picking through the leaves digging through the dirt
Hiding every breath I'm talking I'm gonna make this shit work
[Chorus: x2]
I'm fuckin' walkin' out in the moon light
After midnight searching for you
Out After midnight searchin' lerkin' hurtin' howlin'
At the fuckin' moon I watch the neighbors closing curtains turning
Out the porch lights and I don't even know why
On a stroll all alony like nobodies gonna die
I'm just looking for the answers to the questions that I'm asking
More lost then when I started darted
This means that time is passing barely grasping
To the moment and irrational thoughts
And this prescription in my pocket got me feeling distraught
Its just a matter of time I feel my brain is growing vacant
What the fuck is going on I'm like an old timers patient
And this situation it seems like deja vu
I wish I had an explanation and I pray I knew
How I got to where I'm going what I'm trying to find
Looking for my sanity but I lost my fuckin mind
No where to be found I think I need some fuckin help
Walking after midnight and I'm searching for myself
[Chorus]
I'm fucking walking (fucking walking)
Out in the moonlight (through the darkness)
After midnight (hay)
Searching for you (I'm trying to find you)
Right foot over left
Left foot over right
I let my dog out to piss in the middle of the night
In my backyard illuminated by the moonlight
Was a women in the haze and from the back she's looking tight
Worry not he don't bite but why are you in my yard miss
She waved me on to fallow and then ran into the darkness
All I had on were slippers still a gave a chase
Fallowing an angle and I have yet to see her face
With ease she passes through trees her gown blows in the breeze
I'm slapping though puddles and scratching up my knees
Please tell me your name and where the hell where headed
To the cemetery where the answers are imbedded on her tombstone
She's home
She stopped running
I finally caught up and was about to ask something
When she turned around a demon
A snake for a tongue
And it bite me food for the dead I've become
[Chorus: x2]
What's ding-a-linging nothing in my drawer
Chasing after that dragon but not the hara boy
Its big and shinny and dripping with blood
Why'd I do
Because I said that I could
Now my only problem I'm looking for that tool
When I hit him with it all I seen was dripping n drool
But I put it somewhere
Where
We can all guess
The simple fact is I blacked out and slit her neck
Back to the problem at hand
Memories of motherfucker wit him looking for that murder weapon
If I had recollection I wouldn't have to sweat police
Now my drawers are open sweating trying to find this piece
I can't miss it if I see it wooden handle shinny edge
Shredding it every angle as if I jump off a league
Picking through the leaves digging through the dirt
Hiding every breath I'm talking I'm gonna make this shit work
[Chorus: x2]
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Walking After Midnight Lyrics as written by Don Hecht Alan Block
Lyrics © Kanjian Music, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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