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"
[Blackbear]
Take, take off your clothes
Bring your body in from the cold
And I’ll be the smoke
Hold it in, exhale
The afterglow
Leave your love in the cold
Show me your geography
[T. Mills/Blackbear: Hook]
I’ll be the ignition
Gimme your permission
Marilyn Monroe (x2)
Leave your love in the cold
Show me your geography
[T. Mills]
She’s all over my wall
Yeah she’s my pin-up
Never knew she came for nothing
She keep her chin up
Misguided, Misread, text message got misread.
I cant help that she batting them eyelashes, and her lipstick suicide wrist red.
Forreal
Damn girl chill
Never hung out when you not off the pill.
Leave all your feelings at the front door
So what’s the deal
and you saying that you love me
Wish I could believe you.
Tell me why did all those others dudes up and leave you
There’s an underlying problem here
But I cant focus because
You’re lying there
Nothing but your underwear
Black lace, black lace,
and your make up on my pillow case,
Well if all you want is a quick fuck
We can do it here on the stairway
Oh, I thought that’s how you rolled.
You can be my Marilyn,
Marilyn Monroe
So
[Blackbear]
Leave your love in the cold
Show me your geography.
[Hook]
Take, take off your clothes
Bring your body in from the cold
And I’ll be the smoke
Hold it in, exhale
The afterglow
Leave your love in the cold
Show me your geography
[T. Mills/Blackbear: Hook]
I’ll be the ignition
Gimme your permission
Marilyn Monroe (x2)
Leave your love in the cold
Show me your geography
[T. Mills]
She’s all over my wall
Yeah she’s my pin-up
Never knew she came for nothing
She keep her chin up
Misguided, Misread, text message got misread.
I cant help that she batting them eyelashes, and her lipstick suicide wrist red.
Forreal
Damn girl chill
Never hung out when you not off the pill.
Leave all your feelings at the front door
So what’s the deal
and you saying that you love me
Wish I could believe you.
Tell me why did all those others dudes up and leave you
There’s an underlying problem here
But I cant focus because
You’re lying there
Nothing but your underwear
Black lace, black lace,
and your make up on my pillow case,
Well if all you want is a quick fuck
We can do it here on the stairway
Oh, I thought that’s how you rolled.
You can be my Marilyn,
Marilyn Monroe
So
[Blackbear]
Leave your love in the cold
Show me your geography.
[Hook]
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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