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"
And what's that saying again
They're only words
And words can't kill me
Well I can't even spell them
And the cadence
Of what she says is swell
Let's talk about spaceships
Or anything except you and me, okay?
Let's talk about spaceships
Or anything except you and me, okay?
Okay...
And don't look now
But there's a spider
Crawling on the wall behind you
Yep I should have paid attention
In algebra
Let's talk about spaceships
Or anything except you and me, okay?
Let's talk about spaceships
Or anything except you and me, okay?
Okay...
They're only words
And words can't kill me
Well I can't even spell them
And the cadence
Of what she says is swell
Let's talk about spaceships
Or anything except you and me, okay?
Let's talk about spaceships
Or anything except you and me, okay?
Okay...
And don't look now
But there's a spider
Crawling on the wall behind you
Yep I should have paid attention
In algebra
Let's talk about spaceships
Or anything except you and me, okay?
Let's talk about spaceships
Or anything except you and me, okay?
Okay...
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I've listened to this song a bunch of times but then I started to really listen to it.
I quickly was able to relate exactly to the lyrics. You enjoy someone's presence so much in your life that you'll do whatever you can to be near them. You know that it is something that both of you feel but distance/circumstances/etc keeps you apart and so when you talk you just try to keep away from discussing the issue of what you are together. Simply to prevent you from hurting due to longing for that person so much. So you choose to ignore your feeling to keep the hurt from over taking you.
But hey that's just how I relate to it :)
Since the interpretation of the song has already been covered, I'd just like to add that a lot of people fall for someone in Algebra.
At least i did.. Damn I wish I'd payed attention.
lmao!<br /> i must say i agree with your statement :]]
um hello. i guess no one knows the great album this is. well anyway... it is very obvious this song is about crushing on a girl probably in grade school... la la la.
I got from this song, it being about a situation with an ex and he is trying to still remain friends. But he doesn't want to talk about what will happen or what has already happened between them. probablly to spare feelings or forget about it and have a good friendship with the person.
this is my favourite song on the album. and i agree with rotang9.
"and don't look now but there's a spider crawling on the wall behind you" the speaker's trying to change the topic...
oh man! this was just on a commercial and i was like...wait a sec i know this song...holy crap! it's say hi to your mom!!!!
needless to say i was excited. hehe
Just a note...in music a cadence is like a series of chords or sounds that ends a thought or phrase....whic to me is the noises you hear at the end of the last "okay" in the chorus...
This leads me to believe that the chorus is supposed to be said by the girl he is talking about in the first verse..
"And the cadence of what she says is swell"
Just my thought..
By the way, I also saw the commerical that this song is featured in and I almost crapped my pants. It was such a good and artsy commercial too. :D
What I got from this song is that basically its about a love that he knows cannot happen. So he tries to maintain a platonic relationship, but doing this makes him nervous that it may lead to what he knows is certain pain knowing that it can never last.
ha this song is so sweet