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"
Santana:
I'm broke but I'm happy
Brittany:
I'm poor but I'm kind
Santana:
I'm short but I'm healthy, yeah
Brittany:
I'm high but I'm grounded
Santana:
I'm sane but I'm overwhelmed
I'm lost but I'm hopeful, baby
What it all comes down to
Brittany:
What it all comes down to
Santana:
Is that everything's gonna be
Brittany and Santana:
Fine, fine, fine
Cause I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving a high five
Santana:
Cause I got one hand in my pocket
Brittany:
I feel the earth move under my feet
Santana:
I feel the sky tumbling down (Brittany: Tumbling down)
Santana (and Brittany):
I feel my (heart start to trembling)
Whenever you're around (Brittany: You're around)
What it all comes down to (Brittany: What it all comes down to)
Is that everything's gonna be (quite alright)
Brittany and Santana:
Cause I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is flicking a cigarette
Brittany:
Yeah, I got one hand in my pocket (Santana: Oo, baby)
Baby
Santana:
When I see your face
Brittany and Santana:
Mellow as the month of May
Santana (and Brittany):
Oh, darling (Brittany: Darling)
I can't stand it when you (look at me that way)
Brittany and Santana:
I feel drunk but I'm sober
I'm young and I'm underpaid
I'm tired but I'm working, yeah
Santana:
And what it all comes down to, my friends
Yeah
Is that everything's just (Brittany: I feel the sky tumbling down)
Santana:
Fine, fine, fine
Brittany and Santana (Santana):
(I feel my) heart start to trembling
Whenever you're around
(Well I've got) one hand in my pocket
Santana:
And the other one is playing the piano
Brittany:
I feel the earth move under my feet
Santana:
Well I've got
(Brittany and Santana: One hand in my pocket)
And the other one is playing the piano
Brittany:
I feel the earth move under my feet
Santana:
And what it all comes down to, my friends (Brittany: What it all comes down to)
Yeah, is that everything is just
Brittany and Santana:
Fine, fine, fine
(Santana: Cause I've got) one hand in my pocket
And the other one is hailing a taxi cab
Brittany (and Santana):
I feel the sky (tumbling down)
I'm broke but I'm happy
Brittany:
I'm poor but I'm kind
Santana:
I'm short but I'm healthy, yeah
Brittany:
I'm high but I'm grounded
Santana:
I'm sane but I'm overwhelmed
I'm lost but I'm hopeful, baby
What it all comes down to
Brittany:
What it all comes down to
Santana:
Is that everything's gonna be
Brittany and Santana:
Fine, fine, fine
Cause I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving a high five
Santana:
Cause I got one hand in my pocket
Brittany:
I feel the earth move under my feet
Santana:
I feel the sky tumbling down (Brittany: Tumbling down)
Santana (and Brittany):
I feel my (heart start to trembling)
Whenever you're around (Brittany: You're around)
What it all comes down to (Brittany: What it all comes down to)
Is that everything's gonna be (quite alright)
Brittany and Santana:
Cause I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is flicking a cigarette
Brittany:
Yeah, I got one hand in my pocket (Santana: Oo, baby)
Baby
Santana:
When I see your face
Brittany and Santana:
Mellow as the month of May
Santana (and Brittany):
Oh, darling (Brittany: Darling)
I can't stand it when you (look at me that way)
Brittany and Santana:
I feel drunk but I'm sober
I'm young and I'm underpaid
I'm tired but I'm working, yeah
Santana:
And what it all comes down to, my friends
Yeah
Is that everything's just (Brittany: I feel the sky tumbling down)
Santana:
Fine, fine, fine
Brittany and Santana (Santana):
(I feel my) heart start to trembling
Whenever you're around
(Well I've got) one hand in my pocket
Santana:
And the other one is playing the piano
Brittany:
I feel the earth move under my feet
Santana:
Well I've got
(Brittany and Santana: One hand in my pocket)
And the other one is playing the piano
Brittany:
I feel the earth move under my feet
Santana:
And what it all comes down to, my friends (Brittany: What it all comes down to)
Yeah, is that everything is just
Brittany and Santana:
Fine, fine, fine
(Santana: Cause I've got) one hand in my pocket
And the other one is hailing a taxi cab
Brittany (and Santana):
I feel the sky (tumbling down)
Lyrics submitted by Abbie96
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