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"
Handbrake, mistrust, disbelief
Give me the emergency exit key
Bulwer juice bottle and chief
I'm calling this a state of emergency
I never had the chance not to drink
I tell you that I'd given you anything
You gotta love the one that you're with
To come and stop me giving you everything
Because
My love's for sale
I don't need it anymore
And if I fail, and if I fail
You'll hold my face back from the floor
Heartbreak at the hands of the thief
Is killing me with some kind of urgency
They told me you'd be out in a week
And i'm thinking that i'd owe an apology
Help me, are you feeling this heat?
Yeah, we can lie and join the academy
Go and love the one that you're with
I'm calling this a state of emergency
Because
My love's for sale
I don't need it anymore
And if I fail, and if I fail
You'll hold my face back from the floor
My love's for sale, my love's for sale
I don't need it anymore
I hope I fail, I hope I fail
You'll hold my face back from the floor
If it's all down hill from here
Then it's all, all down hill from here
If it's all, all, all down, down hill from here
But it's all, all, all down, down hill from here
Handbrake, mistrust, disbelief
At least they'll never get you for vagrancy
Broken down in need of relief
I've know you long enough won't you dance with me?
Because
My love's for sale
I don't need it anymore
And if I fail, and if I fail
You'll hold my face back from the floor
My love's for sale, my love's for sale
I don't need it anymore
I hope I fail, I hope I fail
You'll hold my face back from the floor
If it's all down hill from here
Then it's all, all down hill from here
Give me the emergency exit key
Bulwer juice bottle and chief
I'm calling this a state of emergency
I never had the chance not to drink
I tell you that I'd given you anything
You gotta love the one that you're with
To come and stop me giving you everything
Because
My love's for sale
I don't need it anymore
And if I fail, and if I fail
You'll hold my face back from the floor
Heartbreak at the hands of the thief
Is killing me with some kind of urgency
They told me you'd be out in a week
And i'm thinking that i'd owe an apology
Help me, are you feeling this heat?
Yeah, we can lie and join the academy
Go and love the one that you're with
I'm calling this a state of emergency
Because
My love's for sale
I don't need it anymore
And if I fail, and if I fail
You'll hold my face back from the floor
My love's for sale, my love's for sale
I don't need it anymore
I hope I fail, I hope I fail
You'll hold my face back from the floor
If it's all down hill from here
Then it's all, all down hill from here
If it's all, all, all down, down hill from here
But it's all, all, all down, down hill from here
Handbrake, mistrust, disbelief
At least they'll never get you for vagrancy
Broken down in need of relief
I've know you long enough won't you dance with me?
Because
My love's for sale
I don't need it anymore
And if I fail, and if I fail
You'll hold my face back from the floor
My love's for sale, my love's for sale
I don't need it anymore
I hope I fail, I hope I fail
You'll hold my face back from the floor
If it's all down hill from here
Then it's all, all down hill from here
Lyrics submitted by TaintedGlove
Love For Sale Lyrics as written by Paul Youdell Nathan Charles P Hudson
Lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group
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i think the guy has had his heart broken and he thinks he doesnt need his love anymore bcos its too painful.
great song. i saw faker at the falls festival and i loved them, and i love this song!
i had to analyse this video for my english class. just a fun fact for you all :) my absolute favourite part is the 'i've known you love enough won't you dance with me' part. ahh, love it.
i thought is was about being in love with somebody already in a realationship