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"
La-la, la-la-la-la
La-la, la-la-la
La-la, la-la-la-la
La-la, la-la, la-la-la
And one of us gotta crawl under the bus
If we wanna stand a chance of standing up without a crutch
And I ain't trying to sound dismissive of that target you've been squinting at
We've all been ranging far beyond our range of limitations
Even when I try to take the bullet, I'm impatient
Looking at your face for validation
Fly like dishes but sleep like strangers
Protect my interests, what you think these fangs for?
This isn't even anger
It's just disappointment pointed in a million directions
This it's tight and stressed like a tight rope stretched
Across my whole chest this is why I'm flexing
Please forgive my voice but I'm lost in the void
When I look to the future, neither one of us enjoying it
We ought to stop and start smelling these flowers
Before the world reminds us that it's not really ours
La-la, la-la-la-la
La-la, la-la-la
I wish you could hear me, my lips to your earring
La-la, la-la-la-la
La-la, la-la, la-la-la
I wish you could hear me, my lips to your earring
Life is hard
Some stains are too deep to wipe them off
So we must strive for a higher cause
There's something that is clearly missed
Both of us are running from experiences
Frustrated today, nitpicking tomorrow
Sittin' in our sorrow, sippin' from a bottle
Where do we go wrong, why do we prolong?
I wanna grab my hat and throw my coat on
We sleep in different beds, we're taking different meds
This relationship is so Night Of The Living Dead
I know it's morbid, but there's the mortgage, there's the storage
There's the four kids, I will not forfeit
Whatever, we can make it under pressure
We're both bad with money, we spent the college fund together
And I've got nothing else to say about it
Let's just pray about it, I mean it
La-la, la-la-la-la
La-la, la-la-la
I wish you could hear me, my lips to your earring
La-la, la-la-la-la
La-la, la-la, la-la-la
I wish you could hear me, my lips to your earring
La-la, la-la-la
La-la, la-la-la-la
La-la, la-la, la-la-la
And one of us gotta crawl under the bus
If we wanna stand a chance of standing up without a crutch
And I ain't trying to sound dismissive of that target you've been squinting at
We've all been ranging far beyond our range of limitations
Even when I try to take the bullet, I'm impatient
Looking at your face for validation
Fly like dishes but sleep like strangers
Protect my interests, what you think these fangs for?
This isn't even anger
It's just disappointment pointed in a million directions
This it's tight and stressed like a tight rope stretched
Across my whole chest this is why I'm flexing
Please forgive my voice but I'm lost in the void
When I look to the future, neither one of us enjoying it
We ought to stop and start smelling these flowers
Before the world reminds us that it's not really ours
La-la, la-la-la-la
La-la, la-la-la
I wish you could hear me, my lips to your earring
La-la, la-la-la-la
La-la, la-la, la-la-la
I wish you could hear me, my lips to your earring
Life is hard
Some stains are too deep to wipe them off
So we must strive for a higher cause
There's something that is clearly missed
Both of us are running from experiences
Frustrated today, nitpicking tomorrow
Sittin' in our sorrow, sippin' from a bottle
Where do we go wrong, why do we prolong?
I wanna grab my hat and throw my coat on
We sleep in different beds, we're taking different meds
This relationship is so Night Of The Living Dead
I know it's morbid, but there's the mortgage, there's the storage
There's the four kids, I will not forfeit
Whatever, we can make it under pressure
We're both bad with money, we spent the college fund together
And I've got nothing else to say about it
Let's just pray about it, I mean it
La-la, la-la-la-la
La-la, la-la-la
I wish you could hear me, my lips to your earring
La-la, la-la-la-la
La-la, la-la, la-la-la
I wish you could hear me, my lips to your earring
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Earring Lyrics as written by Sean Daley
Lyrics © UPSIDEDOWN HEART MUSIC
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