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"
Ah-ah
I'm not okay
With the distance that's been growin'
Girl, I'm not okay
I love you, never show it
And I'm not afraid
Of the future, what it's holdin'
Girl, I'm not afraid
Let me shut my eyes, I'm zonin'
Turn the radio down and lay you down too
I could be the one for you
Turn the radio down and lay you down too
I could be the one for you
I know we're not in love
Love is vivid
No, we're not in love
You fall right in it for a week, a month
Or maybe just a minute or a lifetime
What's the difference?
Big bang or collision, love is blind
We had a vision though
Now we dead roses
We had a vision though
Now we dead roses
I'm not okay
With the distance that's been growin'
Girl, I'm not okay
I love you, never show it
And I'm not afraid
Of the future, what it's holdin'
Girl, I'm not afraid
Let me shut my eyes, I'm zonin'
Turn the radio down and lay you down too
I could be the one for you
Turn the radio down and lay you down too
I could be the one for you
I know we're not in love
Love is vivid
No we're not in love
You fall right in it for a week, a month
Or maybe just a minute or a lifetime
What's the difference?
Big bang or collision, love is blind
We had a vision though
Now we dead roses
We had a vision though
Now we dead roses
I'm not okay
With the distance that's been growin'
Girl, I'm not okay
I love you, never show it
And I'm not afraid
Of the future, what it's holdin'
Girl, I'm not afraid
Now, why did she send them?
These broken down, wilted, beat up
Rotten-looking flowers
You know, she actually called a florist
And did the whole thing and had them send-
She must have had to say, "Send a dead-, dozen dead roses"
I'm not okay
With the distance that's been growin'
Girl, I'm not okay
I love you, never show it
And I'm not afraid
Of the future, what it's holdin'
Girl, I'm not afraid
Let me shut my eyes, I'm zonin'
Turn the radio down and lay you down too
I could be the one for you
Turn the radio down and lay you down too
I could be the one for you
I know we're not in love
Love is vivid
No, we're not in love
You fall right in it for a week, a month
Or maybe just a minute or a lifetime
What's the difference?
Big bang or collision, love is blind
We had a vision though
Now we dead roses
We had a vision though
Now we dead roses
I'm not okay
With the distance that's been growin'
Girl, I'm not okay
I love you, never show it
And I'm not afraid
Of the future, what it's holdin'
Girl, I'm not afraid
Let me shut my eyes, I'm zonin'
Turn the radio down and lay you down too
I could be the one for you
Turn the radio down and lay you down too
I could be the one for you
I know we're not in love
Love is vivid
No we're not in love
You fall right in it for a week, a month
Or maybe just a minute or a lifetime
What's the difference?
Big bang or collision, love is blind
We had a vision though
Now we dead roses
We had a vision though
Now we dead roses
I'm not okay
With the distance that's been growin'
Girl, I'm not okay
I love you, never show it
And I'm not afraid
Of the future, what it's holdin'
Girl, I'm not afraid
Now, why did she send them?
These broken down, wilted, beat up
Rotten-looking flowers
You know, she actually called a florist
And did the whole thing and had them send-
She must have had to say, "Send a dead-, dozen dead roses"
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
deadroses Lyrics as written by Bryant L. Bowens Matthew Tyler Musto
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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