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"
[Scott Mills:]
Incredible scenes at BBC Radio 1,
As Scott Mills and 5 Seconds of Summer have made a football song.
It's 5 Seconds of Summer and Scott Mills: 1.
Everyone else: null.
(All)
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
We wear our hearts upon our sleeve
(Luke)
There's a part of my heart that you'll never change
(Michael)
There's a dream so alive, it's an endless flame
(Calum)
And you can't keep us down 'cause we'll always come back again
(Always come back again)
(Luke)
For the highs and the lows, for the rise and falls
(Michael)
And the times that you thought you gave it your all
(Calum)
For the night and a dream and those moments you'll never get back again
Never get back again
(Michael)
'Cause the word is at our feet
(All)
We've been through a thousand heartbreaks, but you know we still believe.
We wear the same shirts as our fathers, and our hearts upon our sleeve.
Don't stop us now, we've started. 'cause there's no one we can't beat.
We wear the same shirts as our fathers, and our hearts upon our sleeve.
(All)
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
We wear our hearts upon our sleeve
(Calum)
Hear the crowd in the stands, and out in the streets
(Michael)
Every fan, everywhere, on the edge of their seats
(Calum)
It's a beautiful day for a beautiful game
Beautiful game
(Luke)
See the players right up and the anthems ring
(Michael)
And you're singing so hard, you can't hear a thing
(Calum)
But the beat of your heart (of your heart)
Is beating you up again
Beating you up again
(Michael)
'Cause the world is at our feet
(All)
We've been through a thousand heartbreaks, but you know we still believe.
We wear the same shirts as our fathers, and our hearts upon our sleeve.
Don't stop us now, we've started. 'cause there's no one we can't beat.
We wear the same shirts as our fathers, and our hearts upon our sleeve.
(All)
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
We wear our hearts upon our sleeve
(Scott Mills)
5 Seconds of Summer
'Til the end of the game
Enjoy the heartache, the tension, the pain
The striker shoots, there's a roar from the crowd
They think it's all over
It is now
(All)
Badadap Badadap Bada-da-da-dap
Badadap Badadap Bada-da-da-dap
Badadap Badadap Bada-da-da-dap
Badadap Badadap Bada-da-da-dap
(Luke)
You said you know a football anthem
To be sang around the world
And we hope it doesn't sound like
Any others that you've heard
(All)
Don't stop and stare we've started
'Cause there's no one we can beat
We wear the same shirts as our fathers
And our hearts upon our sleeve
(All)
Badadap Badadap Bada-da-da-dap
Badadap Badadap Bada-da-da-dap
Badadap Badadap Bada-da-da-dap
Badadap
(Luke)
We wear our hearts upon our sleeve
Incredible scenes at BBC Radio 1,
As Scott Mills and 5 Seconds of Summer have made a football song.
It's 5 Seconds of Summer and Scott Mills: 1.
Everyone else: null.
(All)
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
We wear our hearts upon our sleeve
(Luke)
There's a part of my heart that you'll never change
(Michael)
There's a dream so alive, it's an endless flame
(Calum)
And you can't keep us down 'cause we'll always come back again
(Always come back again)
(Luke)
For the highs and the lows, for the rise and falls
(Michael)
And the times that you thought you gave it your all
(Calum)
For the night and a dream and those moments you'll never get back again
Never get back again
(Michael)
'Cause the word is at our feet
(All)
We've been through a thousand heartbreaks, but you know we still believe.
We wear the same shirts as our fathers, and our hearts upon our sleeve.
Don't stop us now, we've started. 'cause there's no one we can't beat.
We wear the same shirts as our fathers, and our hearts upon our sleeve.
(All)
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
We wear our hearts upon our sleeve
(Calum)
Hear the crowd in the stands, and out in the streets
(Michael)
Every fan, everywhere, on the edge of their seats
(Calum)
It's a beautiful day for a beautiful game
Beautiful game
(Luke)
See the players right up and the anthems ring
(Michael)
And you're singing so hard, you can't hear a thing
(Calum)
But the beat of your heart (of your heart)
Is beating you up again
Beating you up again
(Michael)
'Cause the world is at our feet
(All)
We've been through a thousand heartbreaks, but you know we still believe.
We wear the same shirts as our fathers, and our hearts upon our sleeve.
Don't stop us now, we've started. 'cause there's no one we can't beat.
We wear the same shirts as our fathers, and our hearts upon our sleeve.
(All)
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
We wear our hearts upon our sleeve
(Scott Mills)
5 Seconds of Summer
'Til the end of the game
Enjoy the heartache, the tension, the pain
The striker shoots, there's a roar from the crowd
They think it's all over
It is now
(All)
Badadap Badadap Bada-da-da-dap
Badadap Badadap Bada-da-da-dap
Badadap Badadap Bada-da-da-dap
Badadap Badadap Bada-da-da-dap
(Luke)
You said you know a football anthem
To be sang around the world
And we hope it doesn't sound like
Any others that you've heard
(All)
Don't stop and stare we've started
'Cause there's no one we can beat
We wear the same shirts as our fathers
And our hearts upon our sleeve
(All)
Badadap Badadap Bada-da-da-dap
Badadap Badadap Bada-da-da-dap
Badadap Badadap Bada-da-da-dap
Badadap
(Luke)
We wear our hearts upon our sleeve
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