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"
So you're off in never never land
Couldn't wait for Peter Pan
Wendy, you know it's never the same when you're on your own
And do you miss me
And think about all the times you could have kissed me
But never made a move
And neither did I
But birthday cards scribbled with crayon and letters on Valentine's Day just to say hello
Were you too shy to say what I wanted so badly to know
And by the way Veruca
Do you remember flying to heaven with Toad?
Or staying up late, waiting for Godot
I'm just a friend
I want a larger role
I'm just a friend
I never told you though
I'm just a friend
Cast me in your show
I wanna take back all the times I never told you
I'll be there for you
I wanna take back all the times I couldn't hold you
I'll be there for you
I wanna take back all the times I should've showed you
I'll be there...
Saturday night premier for your career
Tell me are you disillusioned
About all the makeup and what they make you wear
Did they cut your hair
And all the lipstick...
It's a little much on your lips
I wanna rub it off with my finger tip
You know they look so much better when they're completely bare
I'm just a friend
I want a larger role
I'm just a friend
I never told you though
I'm just a friend
Cast me in your show
I wanna take back all the times I never told you
I'll be there for you
I wanna take back all the times I couldn't hold you
I'll be there for you
I wanna take back all the times I should've showed you
I'll be there...
Sleep easy baby
Rest easy baby
You replaced your name with fame
Sleep easy baby
Rest easy baby
I wanna win the girl who came before the name
Couldn't wait for Peter Pan
Wendy, you know it's never the same when you're on your own
And do you miss me
And think about all the times you could have kissed me
But never made a move
And neither did I
But birthday cards scribbled with crayon and letters on Valentine's Day just to say hello
Were you too shy to say what I wanted so badly to know
And by the way Veruca
Do you remember flying to heaven with Toad?
Or staying up late, waiting for Godot
I'm just a friend
I want a larger role
I'm just a friend
I never told you though
I'm just a friend
Cast me in your show
I wanna take back all the times I never told you
I'll be there for you
I wanna take back all the times I couldn't hold you
I'll be there for you
I wanna take back all the times I should've showed you
I'll be there...
Saturday night premier for your career
Tell me are you disillusioned
About all the makeup and what they make you wear
Did they cut your hair
And all the lipstick...
It's a little much on your lips
I wanna rub it off with my finger tip
You know they look so much better when they're completely bare
I'm just a friend
I want a larger role
I'm just a friend
I never told you though
I'm just a friend
Cast me in your show
I wanna take back all the times I never told you
I'll be there for you
I wanna take back all the times I couldn't hold you
I'll be there for you
I wanna take back all the times I should've showed you
I'll be there...
Sleep easy baby
Rest easy baby
You replaced your name with fame
Sleep easy baby
Rest easy baby
I wanna win the girl who came before the name
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It is about Piper, if not, Scott wrote a song that was loaded to her. Godot never came, at least during their freshman year at OU, when they were more than good friends. All about how Hollywood changed his dear "friend" and made her into something she never could have been on her own. Toad the wet sprocket? Wendy in Peter Pan? Make of it what you will, but it is from the pages of 1994-95 at kanter hall and mill street.
I think "Were you too shy to say what I wanted so badly to know" says it all, and it's my favorite line. I've felt like that so many times. Frightened sick of asking, but wanting so badly to know how the other person feels. There's an off chance that this is aoubt stalking a celeb though... think about it.
i think this song is about piper perabo--that girl from coyote ugly-- because her and the singer were good friends in college.
This song is well, self-explainable..and if you can't figure it out - say so, I'll give you the 411.
All I've got to say though is that..well, this song totally worked wonders in luring in and then in the end spitting out a "love" of my life - who broke my heart of course.
They all should be spit out...psh, heartbreakers.
hahaha soo lame on my part.
"Do you miss me And think about all the times you could of kissed me But never made a move And neither did I"
...and yes, he did miss me.
awesome song. sooo good. sooo sooo good. i
The drummer was my sub....
I'm very happy with the reference to Toad the Wet Sprocket. And then Waiting for Godot, it's my assumption here that the actress (subject of his affection) had a part in that play at some point. The Veruca one...possibly Veruca Salt, as in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory? Or The band.
I just like external references.