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 reach out when I have a confession
I reach out in desperation
I reach out when no one is listening
So I could looking for the next best thing
Happiness straight from the bottle
When real life's too hard to swallow
Happiness straight from the bottle
When real life's too hard to swallow
I feel them judging on me for their own pleasure
If they really knew they'd know better
That I'm the one who caves under pressure
When desperate times call for desperate measures
Happiness straight from the bottle
When real life's too hard to swallow
Happiness straight from the bottle
When real life's too hard to swallow
I know there's got to be some peace in me
But I can't find it
I get so sick of looking
Happiness straight from the bottle
When real life's too hard to swallow
Happiness straight from the bottle
When real life's too hard to swallow
To hard to swallow
I reach out in desperation
I reach out when no one is listening
So I could looking for the next best thing
Happiness straight from the bottle
When real life's too hard to swallow
Happiness straight from the bottle
When real life's too hard to swallow
I feel them judging on me for their own pleasure
If they really knew they'd know better
That I'm the one who caves under pressure
When desperate times call for desperate measures
Happiness straight from the bottle
When real life's too hard to swallow
Happiness straight from the bottle
When real life's too hard to swallow
I know there's got to be some peace in me
But I can't find it
I get so sick of looking
Happiness straight from the bottle
When real life's too hard to swallow
Happiness straight from the bottle
When real life's too hard to swallow
To hard to swallow
Lyrics submitted by MusicFREAK20, edited by JaylDay
Happiness Lyrics as written by Barry Stock Adam Gontier
Lyrics © HYVETOWN MUSIC INC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This definitely isn't what I thought the song was going to be about when I saw the title. It's basically talking about how taking pills is his way of getting through pain, as it is most everyone else. You do it because no one else understands or is willing to help you through all your problems.
It is about how some people crack under pressure and use drugs and alcohol to cope. I include alcohol because "straight from the bottle" could refer to drugs or alcohol. Either way, the message is the same.
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surely when he says THE bottle he means alcohol..... if it was pills , which usually come in slides and not a little bottle these days, he would say A bottle? i think ppl are trying to read too much into it
@staley69 No, it is about pills. Adam (the lead singer when this song was released, writer of the song) was addicted to oxycontin, which is a pill. I take medicine because i am ADHD & i get pills in a bottle.
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