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"
I come around but I don't see ya
Its kinda hard when your already gone
My eyes are numb
Bloodshot and heavy
The voices silent but approaching me soon
He's got your name
He's got your number
Just one more slip and he'll be dragging you on
I feel the pain
Oh I see the answer
The voices ring out like the siren of song
[Chorus]
You're gone when you stop believing
When its hard to sleep at the end of the day
Move on, don't try to get even
Looking hard just to find a new end
Cause its hard to die
When your already dead
Just when can't quite remember
Just when I can't quite recall
The day we met upon a cold December
The day we met and it started to fall
[Chorus]
Its kinda hard when your already gone
My eyes are numb
Bloodshot and heavy
The voices silent but approaching me soon
He's got your name
He's got your number
Just one more slip and he'll be dragging you on
I feel the pain
Oh I see the answer
The voices ring out like the siren of song
[Chorus]
You're gone when you stop believing
When its hard to sleep at the end of the day
Move on, don't try to get even
Looking hard just to find a new end
Cause its hard to die
When your already dead
Just when can't quite remember
Just when I can't quite recall
The day we met upon a cold December
The day we met and it started to fall
[Chorus]
Lyrics submitted by Caverna[RR]
Falling Down Lyrics as written by Henri Sattler Henk Zinger
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Cloud9
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A complex song by my favorite Ska band, the lyrics start off witha descritption closer to a Ruphalized date rape that ends with the descimation of personal defenses because of love. I starting liking this song because of the sound and the last line, "it's hard to die when you're already dead." The song rememinds me of those times when I feel like my life is falling down.
Im with you on that one Fredodo
i like this one because it's so obvious............"it's hard to die when you're already dead" it just sounds good when you feel like everyone looks way too close at things..........over analyzation
my favourite Caddies song...
awesome song, ragtime horns meets ska and metal, deep song besides, when you're as down as this song, nothing can really hurt u anymore cuz as it is well put "you're already dead"
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yeah i think this song is about date-rape
i think the "he's got your name, he's got your number" is more about the devil (anyone seen Blood Brothers? haha) I'm not too sure about the date rape theme, i think there'd be a bigger deal about it. I reckon it's just about some guy who's feeling really down and worthless /alcoholic/ loser. :)
I looooove this song. Mainly for the horns and just the feel of the music and that line that everyone else already mentioned so I won't bother to repeat.
Interesting take on the date rape idea-- never thought of it that way before, but it seems to make sense...
I think this song is about someone who has hit rock bottom, they cant go any lower and are "already dead". They stopped beliving in themselves also. And I think the Satan having the name and number think is right madcaddie0 and hes saying if you fuck up one more time, your done for.