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 found a mountain on my own (I'm encouraged)
Trust history to say it's unknown (it's discouraging)
There's a seventeen contest in my own home (discourage)
Sick of seventeen contests in my own home (discourage)
Don't cross the road, you're under a spell
A broken violin (discourage)
Don't cross the road, you're under a spell
Of broken violins
All I need is a little discourage
All I need is a little discourage
All I need is a little discourage
All I need is a little discourage
All I need is a little discourage
I ran away from my own telephone (discourage)
It rings to tell you what the future holds in store, so
There's a lack of confidence at home (discourage)
When a seventeen contest fills your own home (discourage)
Put your trust in courage, because no one can tell
The broken violent
Put your trust in courage, no one can tell
The broken violent
All I need is a little discourage
(the world knows what I need
But it's proving far too hard for me)
Trust history to say it's unknown (it's discouraging)
There's a seventeen contest in my own home (discourage)
Sick of seventeen contests in my own home (discourage)
Don't cross the road, you're under a spell
A broken violin (discourage)
Don't cross the road, you're under a spell
Of broken violins
All I need is a little discourage
All I need is a little discourage
All I need is a little discourage
All I need is a little discourage
All I need is a little discourage
I ran away from my own telephone (discourage)
It rings to tell you what the future holds in store, so
There's a lack of confidence at home (discourage)
When a seventeen contest fills your own home (discourage)
Put your trust in courage, because no one can tell
The broken violent
Put your trust in courage, no one can tell
The broken violent
All I need is a little discourage
(the world knows what I need
But it's proving far too hard for me)
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Little Discourage Lyrics as written by Colin Newton Bob Fairfoull
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rar. why has no one before me commented on this song? dod anyone else think the bridge sed "broken firemen"? or was it just me? by theway i love nicola thomas. lots
i probably shouldn't use this place as a message board but: rar.
'Of broken violins'
I always thought he said: "You're broke & violent"
i thought it said broken firemen :-/
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