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"
Life is a vacuum pump, always sucking me dry
Life is a vacuum pump, always sucking me dry
Anyway, I love you anyway you say
And you lie on the bed
The sheets are crumpled around your head
Maybe that's how we meet
We need to feel that we're complete
Communicate or die through it
Sometimes that's the lie of it
These things we shouldn't do
Always end up destroying you
Anyway, I love you anyway you say
This is a new york story
This is a new york story
This is a new york story
Anyway, I love you anyway you say
Sucking me dry
And the salt and the sugar on your table
They enable us to do these stupid things we do
These lives we steal aren't even true
My fantasy was never you
And the blood is blossoming like flowers
Up inside the glass
Eating up our living hours
Draining us of all our powers
Its obvious, I know
One of us should really go
Step outside the door
Run away and be the cure
This is a new york story
This is a new york story
This is a new york story
Anyway, I love you anyway you say
Sucking me dry
And the lies and the legacies
And all those wasted destinies
Your body is so cold
Its turning blue, you look so old
Not human anymore
I think we've lost this hopeless war
And you're soiled and spoiled and so lost my friend
I think that this could be the end
But fear we'll do it all again
And I can pour cold water onto you
And your eyes open and see right though
You suddenly look so gray
Look me in my eyes and say
Anyway
This is a new york story
This is a new york story
This is a new york story
Anyway, I love you anyway you say
How do you deal? (how do I deal?)
How do you deal? (how do I deal?)
How do you deal? (how do I deal?)
Anyway
Life is a vacuum pump, always sucking me dry
Anyway, I love you anyway you say
And you lie on the bed
The sheets are crumpled around your head
Maybe that's how we meet
We need to feel that we're complete
Communicate or die through it
Sometimes that's the lie of it
These things we shouldn't do
Always end up destroying you
Anyway, I love you anyway you say
This is a new york story
This is a new york story
This is a new york story
Anyway, I love you anyway you say
Sucking me dry
And the salt and the sugar on your table
They enable us to do these stupid things we do
These lives we steal aren't even true
My fantasy was never you
And the blood is blossoming like flowers
Up inside the glass
Eating up our living hours
Draining us of all our powers
Its obvious, I know
One of us should really go
Step outside the door
Run away and be the cure
This is a new york story
This is a new york story
This is a new york story
Anyway, I love you anyway you say
Sucking me dry
And the lies and the legacies
And all those wasted destinies
Your body is so cold
Its turning blue, you look so old
Not human anymore
I think we've lost this hopeless war
And you're soiled and spoiled and so lost my friend
I think that this could be the end
But fear we'll do it all again
And I can pour cold water onto you
And your eyes open and see right though
You suddenly look so gray
Look me in my eyes and say
Anyway
This is a new york story
This is a new york story
This is a new york story
Anyway, I love you anyway you say
How do you deal? (how do I deal?)
How do you deal? (how do I deal?)
How do you deal? (how do I deal?)
Anyway
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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