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 get by with what I got right here
Do what I can with what I got this year
Watching the time on the clock disappear
Fear is all I got left to fear
I got my enemies among these friends
You got means and baby I got plans
Give me the start and I can find these ends
Give me more time and I'll do it again, again, again
I wanna rock this block like a bull in a china shop
Give me more time and I'll do it again, again, again
I wanna rock this block like a bull in a china shop
Give me more time and I'll do it again, again, again
I want peace and all I got's this war
I want wings and all I got's this floor
I want a shot of what I'm aiming for
Coming in hot but they blocked this door
So bring me the music for the revolution
I'm singing for more than just a dead solution
So maybe good living is the best defense
So give me more time I can do it again, again, again
I wanna rock this block like a bull in a china shop
Give me more time and I'll do it again, again, again
I wanna rock this block like a bull in a china shop
Give me more time and I'll do it again, again, again
What are you waiting for the future's here?
What are you waiting for the future's here?
What are you waiting for the future's here?
I wanna rock this block like a bull in a china shop
Give me more time and I'll do it again, again, again
I wanna rock this block like a bull in a china shop
Give me more time and I'll do it again, again, again
[x2]
What are you waiting for the future's here?
I get by with what I got right here
Fear is all I got left to fear
[x4]
Do what I can with what I got this year
Watching the time on the clock disappear
Fear is all I got left to fear
I got my enemies among these friends
You got means and baby I got plans
Give me the start and I can find these ends
Give me more time and I'll do it again, again, again
I wanna rock this block like a bull in a china shop
Give me more time and I'll do it again, again, again
I wanna rock this block like a bull in a china shop
Give me more time and I'll do it again, again, again
I want peace and all I got's this war
I want wings and all I got's this floor
I want a shot of what I'm aiming for
Coming in hot but they blocked this door
So bring me the music for the revolution
I'm singing for more than just a dead solution
So maybe good living is the best defense
So give me more time I can do it again, again, again
I wanna rock this block like a bull in a china shop
Give me more time and I'll do it again, again, again
I wanna rock this block like a bull in a china shop
Give me more time and I'll do it again, again, again
What are you waiting for the future's here?
What are you waiting for the future's here?
What are you waiting for the future's here?
I wanna rock this block like a bull in a china shop
Give me more time and I'll do it again, again, again
I wanna rock this block like a bull in a china shop
Give me more time and I'll do it again, again, again
[x2]
What are you waiting for the future's here?
I get by with what I got right here
Fear is all I got left to fear
[x4]
Lyrics submitted by Skoobasteve24
Bull in a China Shop Lyrics as written by Timothy David Foreman Jonathan Mark Foreman
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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