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"
Sittin' in traffic another day of feeling nothing
Trying to find something I guess it's back to huffin'
Paint and model glue oh how I die when I look
At you smilin' lovin' life and all I know is blue
Rainy days and cold stares broken love affairs
Everything's beautiful as long as I ain't there
I guess I wasn't meant to crack a smile who cares
I think I'll go to sleep for a while now
I'm barely livin' in my skin depression's my only friend
And I don't know where I am heading tryin' to forget where I've been
And I'm so sick of lying God please show me that silver lining
'Cause I've heard tale and I'm not well my heads full of hell and
This world's a jail but
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And as the apin begins to displace had it to ear level
With this place you see it on my face a state of suspended grace
Gradually I erase and find comfort in the sickest womb
I might be present but no in the room
To whom it may consume melting ensembles bleeding chellos running through Bordellos drama
Like Othello hidin' out from Poncharello
Dead off in the Median
Fallin' apart like usual handin' out flyers to my funeral
So they say that life's a play and that all the world's a stage
Then for another part I pray the show ends the same way everyday
And my heart carries the pain of a brain I can't explain
Am I insane
Am I insane
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And everything good is gone
And everything good is gone
And everything good is gone
And everything bad is here
And everything bad is here
And everything bad is here
It doesn't really matter now does it
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
Trying to find something I guess it's back to huffin'
Paint and model glue oh how I die when I look
At you smilin' lovin' life and all I know is blue
Rainy days and cold stares broken love affairs
Everything's beautiful as long as I ain't there
I guess I wasn't meant to crack a smile who cares
I think I'll go to sleep for a while now
I'm barely livin' in my skin depression's my only friend
And I don't know where I am heading tryin' to forget where I've been
And I'm so sick of lying God please show me that silver lining
'Cause I've heard tale and I'm not well my heads full of hell and
This world's a jail but
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And as the apin begins to displace had it to ear level
With this place you see it on my face a state of suspended grace
Gradually I erase and find comfort in the sickest womb
I might be present but no in the room
To whom it may consume melting ensembles bleeding chellos running through Bordellos drama
Like Othello hidin' out from Poncharello
Dead off in the Median
Fallin' apart like usual handin' out flyers to my funeral
So they say that life's a play and that all the world's a stage
Then for another part I pray the show ends the same way everyday
And my heart carries the pain of a brain I can't explain
Am I insane
Am I insane
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And everything good is gone
And everything good is gone
And everything good is gone
And everything bad is here
And everything bad is here
And everything bad is here
It doesn't really matter now does it
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
It Don't Matter Lyrics as written by Derek Murphy Alan Edward Gorrie
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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