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"
Three's my lucky number
And fortune comes in threes
But I wish I knew that number
That even little children seem to see
Oh, I'm missing everything I knew
It's just so hard to be a child
Oh, I'm missing all the things I knew
Yet wish I knew nothing at all
I wish I knew nothing at all
Soon I'll have the courage
To leave my thoughts behind
I'll give back all the knowledge
And keep the wisdom precious in my mind
Oh, I'm missing all the things I knew
I miss them yet I want them gone
Yes, I'm missing all the things I knew
Yet wish I knew nothing at all
I wish I knew nothing at all
I wish I knew nothing at all
And fortune comes in threes
But I wish I knew that number
That even little children seem to see
Oh, I'm missing everything I knew
It's just so hard to be a child
Oh, I'm missing all the things I knew
Yet wish I knew nothing at all
I wish I knew nothing at all
Soon I'll have the courage
To leave my thoughts behind
I'll give back all the knowledge
And keep the wisdom precious in my mind
Oh, I'm missing all the things I knew
I miss them yet I want them gone
Yes, I'm missing all the things I knew
Yet wish I knew nothing at all
I wish I knew nothing at all
I wish I knew nothing at all
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Punchline
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Page
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The key lines in this song as I read it are "I'll give back all the knowledge / And keep the wisdom precious in my mind."
As we learn, we learn how to learn. The more knowledge we gain and the more context we have for it, the better equipped we are to find patterns, connections, and meaning underlying raw data. The catch is that by the time we've achieved this level of data processing capability our minds are full of misconceptions, biases, and knowledge which was uncritically assimilated.
There is, then, a desire to keep the mechanism of the trained mind intact, while stripping it of so much useless knowledge. Presumably, one could then relearn everything using a "better" brain.
At the same time, our knowledge, inaccurate as it may be, is something that is significant in helping us define ourselves. To simply erase all of that is a frightening prospect from the standpoint of identity.
And finally, there is the titular number three and its meaning to the song. Children, lacking both knowledge, intuit something special about the number three, but they lack the processing experience to examine that intuition. If a person could combine the mental reasoning of a lifetime of thinking (unadulterated by knowledge) with the natural intuition of a child, one might be able to discover fascinating things about the nature of reasoning, experience, or something else.
i love this song so much that i dont wanna make any comment on it....i dont wanna spoil it :) leave it as is...
:) one of my all time favourittes...
I think it's about missing the times you were inexperienced, because you will never get the feeling of learning for the first time again. That's the thrill of life.
Mind, though, that nobody ever stops learning... :)