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"
All they want is to feel it
We won't be what you want to be, oh no
Pull it close, pull it closer, I play it close
Head-to-toes tonight, recognizing the ghost
And the machine getting in between the thought and the finger
At the brink of an evolution, we're going to linger
Come on
We won't be what you want to be, oh no
Pull it close, pull it closer, I play it close
Head-to-toes tonight, recognizing the ghost
And the machine getting in between the thought and the finger
At the brink of an evolution, we're going to linger
Come on
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Jesus....
Guess noone has any idea what's going on in that first verse there, eh? Oh well. This song is amazing. It's a shame that it's one of the two songs off the new album they didn't play when I saw them.
Guess noone has any idea what's going on in that first verse there, eh? Oh well. This song is amazing. It's a shame that it's one of the two songs off the new album they didn't play when I saw them.
I love the random rap in the middle of this song.
somehow this is my favorite song on the disc. not the best, just my favorite. i nearly yelled in surprise/joy when the dude started rapping. so fucking awesome.
invite your best friend over, blast this song, take your camera out, slap on a smile, and dance.
love this song.
krazy kats. Riotmusic
i'm so excited to see them in concert this june... i really hope they play this song as well. it's one of my favourites on the album and wow whoever write the original lyrics was definitely wearing earplugs