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"
December starts on Sunday
Next Sunday, won't you feel happier then?
Turn your room upside down,
Turn your down upside...
Rumors have started that you are in love again,
Rumors that are completely unsubstantiated..
Come on and say you're sorry,
Real sorry for the trouble that you caused,
Can't you see all this love...?
Can't you see all this love......?
Come on and say you're sorry,
Real sorry for the trouble that you caused
Can't you see all this love?
Can't you see all this love?
We are not evacuating this house,
We don't believe in you and your wrecking crew.
We are not evacuating this house,
We don't believe in you and your wrecking crew.
We don't believe in you and your wrecking crew
We don't believe in you
We don't believe in you,
We don't believe in you
We don't believe in you,
We don't believe in you...
We don't believe in you.
Next Sunday, won't you feel happier then?
Turn your room upside down,
Turn your down upside...
Rumors have started that you are in love again,
Rumors that are completely unsubstantiated..
Come on and say you're sorry,
Real sorry for the trouble that you caused,
Can't you see all this love...?
Can't you see all this love......?
Come on and say you're sorry,
Real sorry for the trouble that you caused
Can't you see all this love?
Can't you see all this love?
We are not evacuating this house,
We don't believe in you and your wrecking crew.
We are not evacuating this house,
We don't believe in you and your wrecking crew.
We don't believe in you and your wrecking crew
We don't believe in you
We don't believe in you,
We don't believe in you
We don't believe in you,
We don't believe in you...
We don't believe in you.
Lyrics submitted by mrs-mojo-risin, edited by kindahungry
December Lyrics as written by Regina Spektor
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I think it's about divorce, also.
I think the very first lines are someone talking to one of the people involved in the divorce, trying to cheer him/her up, but the song is in the voice of that person beginning with "rumors." The lines about the rumors interrupt the previous ones, like the person can't even think about being happier with all these rumors about his/her ex-spouse being in love again. I think saying that they are completely unsubstantiated is more hopeful than certain.
In the next verse, the person wants his/her ex to be sorry for all the pain this divorce has caused, making it sound like he/she was the one who wanted a divorce and not the narrator. The narrator is still in love and wants, at the very least, acknowledgement from his/her ex that mistakes were made.
I agree with fitzgerald that the house is metaphorical, but I think it's metaphorical to the narrator. I think he/she doesn't want to give up the house that he/she lived in with his/her (I really wish English had a gender-neutral pronoun. I know it's technically 'he,' but it really doesn't work.) spouse because it represents the life they shared. When he/she says that he/she doesn't believe in "you and your wrecking crew," I think it's a desperate, stubborn denial of what is happening. I think the wrecking crew is a metaphor for the lawyers, maybe, or other people involved in the divorce. He/she does not want to accept that what they had is done, but there's not really much he/she can do besides cling to the house, trying to pretend that everything will just go away.
And I also have no idea why she suddenly uses an accent in the final verse, but I don't think I'd like her half as well if I understood all the whys in her songs. Anyway, it's that accent that makes the final verse my favorite.