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"
Once a label is on something
It becomes an it
Like it's no longer alive
It's like a loss of vision
Or some dark impression
Or a black spot on your eye
If it's up to you
My little sweet baboo
Through the shouting and the fever
Think of life as queer
Think of it my dear
And some knobs or a fancy tone
From here there is no reason
Baby's got it made
But it's not what the life's about
What is imagination
May become a fact
If we think of it that way
If you want to know
I can tell you now
Oh if you make it through somehow
Or is it best to keep or fall to sleep
it isn't looking very good to me
from here
Hey
He's distressed and I forget
I don't want to know cause I forget
He's distressed and I forget
I don't want to know cause I forget
He's distressed and I forget
I don't want to know cause I forget
He's distressed and I forget
I don't want to know
I don't want to know
I don't want to know
What do, new york
Couples fight about
Brothers gonna work it out
(Baby's got the bed sheet)
How do
(That was under you)
New york
(When your time and life expires)
Couples Fight it out
What these couples fight about
(Keeps it in the closet)
What do
(Keeps it to herself)
New york
(She should throw the damn thing out)
Couples fight about
But this gonna work it out
(Why should you continue)
How do
(To shake it off)
New york
(Would you write things on the wall?)
Couples fight it out
What these couples fight about
(You could make it hard)
To be
In the shouting you will see
Or is it best to change the world you're keeping
Down again
Hey
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
Such is the sound of sorry
Without the shy report
or the grips that could hold you down
(just when things were looking up you act just like a horse's butt)
Everything was simple
but the body's worn
Got the life spread on the ground
(Powder pink and general, the kitchen sink, a funeral)
Every loving other
Don't you fade on me
Like a bomb that's about to blow
(Often we will overlook the things that make it undercooked)
We can make it hard
Or we can take the world apart
Or you'd never be that sure
Of the simple things that makes you want
To cry, again
Hey
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know, I don't want to know
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know, I don't want to know
It becomes an it
Like it's no longer alive
It's like a loss of vision
Or some dark impression
Or a black spot on your eye
If it's up to you
My little sweet baboo
Through the shouting and the fever
Think of life as queer
Think of it my dear
And some knobs or a fancy tone
From here there is no reason
Baby's got it made
But it's not what the life's about
What is imagination
May become a fact
If we think of it that way
If you want to know
I can tell you now
Oh if you make it through somehow
Or is it best to keep or fall to sleep
it isn't looking very good to me
from here
Hey
He's distressed and I forget
I don't want to know cause I forget
He's distressed and I forget
I don't want to know cause I forget
He's distressed and I forget
I don't want to know cause I forget
He's distressed and I forget
I don't want to know
I don't want to know
I don't want to know
What do, new york
Couples fight about
Brothers gonna work it out
(Baby's got the bed sheet)
How do
(That was under you)
New york
(When your time and life expires)
Couples Fight it out
What these couples fight about
(Keeps it in the closet)
What do
(Keeps it to herself)
New york
(She should throw the damn thing out)
Couples fight about
But this gonna work it out
(Why should you continue)
How do
(To shake it off)
New york
(Would you write things on the wall?)
Couples fight it out
What these couples fight about
(You could make it hard)
To be
In the shouting you will see
Or is it best to change the world you're keeping
Down again
Hey
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
Such is the sound of sorry
Without the shy report
or the grips that could hold you down
(just when things were looking up you act just like a horse's butt)
Everything was simple
but the body's worn
Got the life spread on the ground
(Powder pink and general, the kitchen sink, a funeral)
Every loving other
Don't you fade on me
Like a bomb that's about to blow
(Often we will overlook the things that make it undercooked)
We can make it hard
Or we can take the world apart
Or you'd never be that sure
Of the simple things that makes you want
To cry, again
Hey
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know, I don't want to know
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know 'cause I forget
He's distressed
And I forget
I don't want to know, I don't want to know
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What New York Couples Fight About Lyrics as written by Paul David Godfrey Kurt F Wagner
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, SCHUBERT MUSIC PUBLISHING INC.
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