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"
He got up this morning
He rolled out of bed
And went out to change the world
Her head on his shoulder
He settles her down
It all started over and over again
His mum made him breakfast
He gets on the bus
He goes out to see the world
He lies on the ground and
Wipes blood from his nose
Wonders why he's the one that doesn't fit In
[Chorus]
The pictures he drew
But if only they told him
You're never gonna be like anyone
And that's ok
Give into your feelings
Don't give in to the ones that will haunt ya
Sometimes they just don't go away
Six double martinis,
A night on the town
It sure makes the mornings long
He never imagined a life time like this would be
The only thing to let him get in
[Chorus]
He gets up
He falls down
Wishes he could get the nerve to end it all now
He picks up the phone
And he slams it down
And swallows another
Now he'll never come around
It's all or none
It's one for one
And you can make it
But ya' gotta do it all for yourself
[Chorus]
He rolled out of bed
And went out to change the world
Her head on his shoulder
He settles her down
It all started over and over again
His mum made him breakfast
He gets on the bus
He goes out to see the world
He lies on the ground and
Wipes blood from his nose
Wonders why he's the one that doesn't fit In
[Chorus]
The pictures he drew
But if only they told him
You're never gonna be like anyone
And that's ok
Give into your feelings
Don't give in to the ones that will haunt ya
Sometimes they just don't go away
Six double martinis,
A night on the town
It sure makes the mornings long
He never imagined a life time like this would be
The only thing to let him get in
[Chorus]
He gets up
He falls down
Wishes he could get the nerve to end it all now
He picks up the phone
And he slams it down
And swallows another
Now he'll never come around
It's all or none
It's one for one
And you can make it
But ya' gotta do it all for yourself
[Chorus]
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hey, just confirming the guy in the song commited suicide by overdose?
That's funny... Yes he did. I don't know why everyone else said it was really beautiful..
@rebelwithalostcause Jaret acually talks about this song on one of the BFS podcats (Fan Page Rampage Episode 1). He says it's not about suicide; it's about his brother, his brother's ex-wife, and his brother's toxic relationship with her. "Swallowing another" is a drink to get blackout drunk, not pills. "Double martinis" apparently was just to make the lyrics fit the song; his brother was a beer drinker.
this song is so beautiful, just be yourself, dont try to fit in, dont let it worry you
Yeah...this is a really cool song
this song rules..good message for some people
I just heard this song for the first time. Really good. To me it's about how people pressure you to fit in, but it won't give you happiness. Just be yourself, because that's who you are.