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"
Go and take this the wrong way
You knew who I was with every step that I ran to you
Only blue or black days
Electing strange perfections in any stranger I choose
Would things be easier if there was a right way?
Honey, there is no right way
And so I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
There's an art to life's distraction
To somehow escape the burning wait
The art of scraping through
Some like to imagine
The dark caress of someone else, I guess any thrill will do
Would things be easier if there was a right way?
Honey, there is no right way
And so I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I wake at the first cringe of morning
And my heart's already sinned
How pure, how sweet a love, Aretha
That you would pray for him
'Cause God knows I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day
Love with every stranger, the stranger the better
Love with every stranger, the stranger the better
Love with every stranger, the stranger the better
Love with every stranger, the stranger the better
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
You knew who I was with every step that I ran to you
Only blue or black days
Electing strange perfections in any stranger I choose
Would things be easier if there was a right way?
Honey, there is no right way
And so I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
There's an art to life's distraction
To somehow escape the burning wait
The art of scraping through
Some like to imagine
The dark caress of someone else, I guess any thrill will do
Would things be easier if there was a right way?
Honey, there is no right way
And so I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I wake at the first cringe of morning
And my heart's already sinned
How pure, how sweet a love, Aretha
That you would pray for him
'Cause God knows I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day
Love with every stranger, the stranger the better
Love with every stranger, the stranger the better
Love with every stranger, the stranger the better
Love with every stranger, the stranger the better
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit
Every day with someone new
Lyrics submitted by 2014, edited by teaspill, smokingloon4, deondra
Someone New Lyrics as written by Sallay-matu Garnett Andrew Hozier Byrne
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I'm kind of confused about what this song is saying. It sounds very happy-going when he sings the chorus "I fall in love everyday with someone new" but when he says "There is no right way." I'm not sure what he means. Also the verses confuse me.
I think in the 2nd verse he is saying life's distractions are good cause they can temporarily stop us from worrying all the time. We all have our own distractions & for him, it's falling in love with a new girl everyday? Maybe hooking up?
In the first verse, it seems like he's saying we see the good in strangers and somehow think everyone else is better off than us. But then that doesn't really connect to the chorus, so I'm just overall confused about the meaning.
@AMusicalSoul <br /> The first bit is basically a synopsis:<br /> <br /> Go take this the wrong way,<br /> You knew who I was with every step that I ran to you, <- Our relationship is fine, don't get upset about this.<br /> Only blue or black days, <- When living feels bleak.<br /> Electing strange perfections in any stranger I choose. <- I see beauty in people (which may not even be there: "electing").<br /> <br /> Would things be easier if there was a right way? <br /> Honey, there is no right way. <- There are a lot of different ways to live. If everyone was the same, virtuous, did what they were supposed to, the world might be less bleak. But there are different values and priorities between people, and that's not a bad thing, even while it causes misery and strife. <br /> <br /> And so I fall in love just a little,<br /> Oh a little bit everyday with someone new. <- Therefore, because the misery is an inevitable product of people being different, and because no path is more valid than another, the speaker chooses to love people for their differences from himself. It's one way to escape the agony of existence.<br /> <br /> The verses confirm this interpretation.<br /> <br /> There's an art to life's distractions, <- When the world is miserable, distracting oneself from it is necessary.<br /> To somehow escape the burning wait, <br /> The art of scraping through, <- Emphasizing how hard it is to live and wait for death without doing something to escape the misery.<br /> Some like to imagine,<br /> The dark caress of someone else, <- Some people use fantasizing about sex as a distraction.<br /> I guess any thrill will do. <- That's acknowledged as no better or worse than what the speaker does, just different.<br /> <br /> And then we get an example of the process of falling in love, the distraction the speaker is talking about:<br /> <br /> I wake at the first cringe of morning,<br /> And my heart's already sinned, <br /> How pure, how sweet a love, Aretha,<br /> That you would pray for him.<br /> <br /> Sing a Little Prayer for You woke him up in the morning, the imagery is of an alarm clock. And in that first moment of being awake he's distracted from how terrible things are by the purity and sweetness of her love for the man she's singing to. He's impressed with, falls in love with, her devotion -- largely because he doesn't have that devotion himself (he falls in love with people all the time, which is an infidelity, just an emotional one). <br /> <br /> Hozier said somewhere, I think in the From Eden track-by-track that when one falls in love, it's often the traits that are missing in oneself that one sees in another and falls in love with. I think that's being referenced here. It's why stranger is better. It lets you fall deeper in love, be distracted more, simply because it allows you to see more traits you don't have but admire.