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"
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, I love ya
Oh oh oh, I love ya
I do, I do
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, I love ya
Oh oh oh, I love ya
I do, I do
I told you why we just can't make it
I want you still but I just can't take it
The time has come we ought to break it
Someone had to pay the price
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, it's over
Oh oh oh, it's over
It's true, it's true
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, it's over
Oh oh oh, it's over
It's true, It's true
I think of times we were together
As time went on it seemed forever
Times have changed now things are better
Someone had to pay the price
And I think of times we were together
As time went on it seemed forever
Times have changed now things are better
Someone had to pay the price
Oh oh oh, I love ya
Oh oh oh, I love ya
I do, I do
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, I love ya
Oh oh oh, I love ya
I do, I do
I told you why we just can't make it
I want you still but I just can't take it
The time has come we ought to break it
Someone had to pay the price
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, it's over
Oh oh oh, it's over
It's true, it's true
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, it's over
Oh oh oh, it's over
It's true, It's true
I think of times we were together
As time went on it seemed forever
Times have changed now things are better
Someone had to pay the price
And I think of times we were together
As time went on it seemed forever
Times have changed now things are better
Someone had to pay the price
Lyrics submitted by josesoler47
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Lyrics as written by Jeff Hyman Douglas Colvin
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, Word Collections Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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RIP Joey, JOhnny, Dee Dee. Yer all too tough to die.
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:( I love you :( I do, I do :( But you told me why we just couldn't make it
:( The time came we broke it
:( And I think of times we were together :'( As time went on it seemed forever
:'( But times have changed :( Things will never be better :'(
this song means a lot to me and i can't explain why... it makes me sad that joey's dead when I listen to it...
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HayseedPunxGirl is right... it reminds me that Joey is dead... Pretty sad...
fuck yeah, sweet song
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