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"
Forgive you, if that's what you want. You roll back and you're wasted and i'm all torn up. I buried promise here, you would go back once you're feeling sorry for all that you were when you found me here in the clear. no one here can sing your song just stand by the idiots and sing along. I've let you lie before, you were a flower on the wall i built to block out the dregs I used to need. No one there can sing your song, just stand by the idiots and sing along
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"you would go back once your feelings were reaped before our aptitude when you found me here in the fair..." personally i prefer the armchair martian cover, tis all good :)
so in conclusion:
forgive you, thats what you want you roll back and you're wasted, and i'm all torn up i bury promise here you would go back once your feelings were reaped before our aptitude when you found me here in the fair no one here can sing your song just stand by the idiots and sing along i bet you loved before, when you were a flower on the wall i built to block up the bricks i used to need no one there can sing your song just stand by the idiots and sing along
i think these lyrics need some corrections but i just cant figure it out what the missing words are... i think its more like forgive you, thats what you want you roll back and you're wasted, and i'm all torn up i bury promise here you would come back once your feelings are.. (i have no idea) ...when you found me here and not there no one here can sing your song just stand by the idiots and sing along i bet you loved before, when you were a flower on the wall i built to block up the bricks i used to ?? no one there can sing your song just stand by the idiots and sing along
but i'm sure this need some corrections as well :)
I think it's "I used to need..."
i really appreciate songs like this, not many bands can pull this off, and not sound whiny, but Lagwagon can.
i think all their harder stuff is Rad, but its impressive when a band makes a series of softer (and i mean this in the most respectful sense) songs, but still doesn't alienate their fan base, or make itself look stupid.
Hey guys, I'm pretty sure none of you got the lyrics quite right yet. Listen to the acoustic version to hear the words clearly... Here's what I hear:
Forgive you, if that's what you want. You roll back and your wasted, and I'm all torn up.
I buried promise here. You would come back once your feeling sorry for all that you were when you found me here in the clear. No one here can sing your song. Just stand by the idiots and sing along.
I've let you love before, when you were a flower on the wall I built to block out the drapes I used to need. But no one here can sing my (your) song. Just stand by the idiots and sing along.
The song's meaning seems pretty obvious to me. He's talking to a friend, possibly himself, that has withdrawn from those around them. The cause of their suffering isn't made clear which makes the meaning pretty flexible. It means different things to me at different times, but in the end Joey tells us to buck-up. You've loved before, you can do it again. Just pretend to enjoy the people you've been hiding from and eventually you'll realize life is not so bleak.
Word. That acoustic version is so, so good.
@BrooksBonkoski It's actually "You would come back once your feeling are reaped for all that you were, when you found me here in the clear
I'm pretty sure this song is about Derrik Plourde and his struggles with addiction.
The correct lyrics:
Forgive you If that's what you want But you roll back and you're wasted And I'm all torn up I bury promise here You would come back Once you're feeling sorry For all that you were When you found me Here in the clear No one here Can sing your song Just stand by the idiots and sing along I've let you lie before When you were a flower on the wall I built to block out the dregs I used to need No one there Can sing your song Just stand by the idiots and sing along