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"
Welcome to the freak show
Come step into my world
I build it for myself
Put all my memories on the wall
(All my memories on the wall)
Welcome to the freak show
Where nothing can burn out, nothing can break down
I swear I run away from it all
(I swear I run away from it all)
When you wake up and you're all alone
And the bed's too big for one
Well, you're not the only weird one
Here, let me show you where I'm from
Welcome to the freak show (ooh, ooh)
I got a place that we can go
Welcome to the freak show (ooh, ooh)
I got a place nobody knows
Welcome to the freak show (ooh, ooh)
I got a place that we can go
Welcome to the freak show (ooh, ooh)
I got a place nobody knows
Feels different tonight with you here at my side
Oh, I could just get lost here for days
(I could just get lost here for days)
When you wake up and you're all alone
And the bed's too big for one
Well, you're not the only weird one
Here, let me show you where I'm from
Welcome to the freak show (ooh, ooh)
I got a place that we can go
Welcome to the freak show (ooh, ooh)
I got a place nobody knows
Welcome to the freak show (ooh, ooh)
I got a place that we can go
Welcome to the freak show (ooh, ooh)
I got a place nobody knows
Who wants, who wants
Who wants to be normal anyway, hmm anyway? (ooh, ooh)
Who wants, who wants
Who wants to be normal anyway? (ooh, ooh)
What's normal anyway?
(Ooh, ooh)
Welcome to the freak show
I got a place that we can go
Welcome to the freak show (Ooh, ooh)
I got a place nobody knows
Welcome to the freak show
(Who wants, who wants, who wants to be normal?)
I got a place that we can go
Welcome to the freak show (Ooh, ooh)
I got a place nobody knows
Welcome to the freak show
(Who wants, who wants, who wants to be normal?)
I got a place that we can go
Welcome to the freak show (Ooh, ooh)
I got a place nobody knows
Welcome to the freak show
Come step into my world
I build it for myself
Put all my memories on the wall
(All my memories on the wall)
Welcome to the freak show
Where nothing can burn out, nothing can break down
I swear I run away from it all
(I swear I run away from it all)
When you wake up and you're all alone
And the bed's too big for one
Well, you're not the only weird one
Here, let me show you where I'm from
Welcome to the freak show (ooh, ooh)
I got a place that we can go
Welcome to the freak show (ooh, ooh)
I got a place nobody knows
Welcome to the freak show (ooh, ooh)
I got a place that we can go
Welcome to the freak show (ooh, ooh)
I got a place nobody knows
Feels different tonight with you here at my side
Oh, I could just get lost here for days
(I could just get lost here for days)
When you wake up and you're all alone
And the bed's too big for one
Well, you're not the only weird one
Here, let me show you where I'm from
Welcome to the freak show (ooh, ooh)
I got a place that we can go
Welcome to the freak show (ooh, ooh)
I got a place nobody knows
Welcome to the freak show (ooh, ooh)
I got a place that we can go
Welcome to the freak show (ooh, ooh)
I got a place nobody knows
Who wants, who wants
Who wants to be normal anyway, hmm anyway? (ooh, ooh)
Who wants, who wants
Who wants to be normal anyway? (ooh, ooh)
What's normal anyway?
(Ooh, ooh)
Welcome to the freak show
I got a place that we can go
Welcome to the freak show (Ooh, ooh)
I got a place nobody knows
Welcome to the freak show
(Who wants, who wants, who wants to be normal?)
I got a place that we can go
Welcome to the freak show (Ooh, ooh)
I got a place nobody knows
Welcome to the freak show
(Who wants, who wants, who wants to be normal?)
I got a place that we can go
Welcome to the freak show (Ooh, ooh)
I got a place nobody knows
Welcome to the freak show
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Freak Show Lyrics as written by Louis Schoorl Peter Thomas
Lyrics © Walt Disney Music Company, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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