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"
Something is changing inside of me
Colors seem darker in light
And I don't know what that means
But it's not a good sign
You can just add them up
Then you could memorize
Prehistoric bones
All of those old memories
You can push them out
And prep yourself
For brand new information
Don't deconstruct
And then fill me in
I'm not that basic I swear
I've had enough of
Breakdowns and diagrams
Judging from picture books
Apparently heaven
Is a partly cloudy place
And if the sky opened up
And they let you in
And gave you a formal invitation
Would you go?
You can work from home
Colors seem darker in light
And I don't know what that means
But it's not a good sign
You can just add them up
Then you could memorize
Prehistoric bones
All of those old memories
You can push them out
And prep yourself
For brand new information
Don't deconstruct
And then fill me in
I'm not that basic I swear
I've had enough of
Breakdowns and diagrams
Judging from picture books
Apparently heaven
Is a partly cloudy place
And if the sky opened up
And they let you in
And gave you a formal invitation
Would you go?
You can work from home
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Yeah, this song is very good. I love the trumpet. In my opinion it makes the song.
"something is changing inside of me.color's seem darker in light.and i dont know what that means,but it's not a good sign." god,i love that..
It's about depression. She's depressed ("omething is changing inside of me/ Colors seem darker in light"), but she's worried that counseling/psychoanalysis will oversimplify her problems ("Don't deconstruct and then fill me in/I'm not that basic, I swear/I've had enough of breakdowns and diagrams"). The verse about prehistoric bones is referring to traumatic events in her past--counseling would be like wiping the slate clean, but it would get rid of her history and in some ways herself.
this is one of my favorite songs by rilo kiley
i concur
"Judging from picture books, apparently, Heaven is a partly cloudy place." No one's ever said it quite like that..... best song ever.
"don't deconstruct and then fill me in i'm not that basic i swear"
its like she knows someone's judging her, and she they have no reason to so she couldn't care but then she's trying to prove herself to them anyway
*shouldn't not couldnt
I think this kind of builds off of the whole Science vs. Romance theme. Someone thinks they can just compartmentalize everything going on in their mind and is trying to do the same for her, but she's not that basic - she swears.
I like the part about heaven a lot. "Would you go? You can work from home." It's making a statement about those people who just want happiness for themselves versus those who want to teach others how. It reminds me of the Bodhisattva Vow in Buddhism: to enter into nirvana only after all beings have been enlightened.
But I digress.
this to me is like: tell it like it is. stop going around the situation, because she knows its there.
and the end--"you can work from home"-- is a mockery of things that we need that arent really important.