Been Here Before Lyrics

Lyric discussion by WaterWarrior 

Cover art for Been Here Before lyrics by Jeremy Enigk

I think this song is beautiful.

It's about something that is all too familiar in my life, a hookup.

He starts out the song at the beginning of the night. "Though there's something in the air this time" and "Run away with you toward the night" He sees a woman that he finds attractive and wants to hook up with, and thinks maybe this time things could be different, maybe she's the one.

"I can't stay long in the morning. Another one went wrong" Here he says that she wasn't the one, but I love how he says it, he's not regretful at all. It's like he knows that she'll feel awful in the morning, but he doesn't care. Getting to know someone on a physical level, even for a night, is beautiful, and it's part of the human nature to "empathize" with someone.

"Only in your eyes a sudden need denied" he sees that she wants him to stay. Women become far more attached to men than vice versa. It just doesn't feel right, though. "It's ok now that you're gone" "Now I wanna give away what I've taken back" He's given away his physical connection, regretted it, taken it back, but now he's over it, and he wants to give it away again.

Very nice, Jeremy, I love this song!