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"
Cut the rain, we two have swallowed trust
And you have changed
And I, I didn't change enough
And some have said,
That true loves something we are sure of
My only hope lies in your being confused
With all you said, I would wait one hundred summers
Just once again to be with you
On Monday evening, the cloudy skies
On two for Tuesday, I wanted to die
And so you love me, sometimes I find
But you only need me till the darkness takes the sun
Away from me, I've lost you
Away from me, I've lost you
Away from me, I've lost you
Away from me
I saw a silver sun
I wanted it to touch everyone
You have an arm to pull me back
But theres no way that I can give this up
Some other way, theres got to be another
Some other way, there has to be another
Some other way, theres got to be another way
We all are scientists who will not be afraid
I'm not saying that theres no hope for this
And you have tried to change my mind
But we all know, our systems broken
And I, I'll never vote again
And you have changed
And I, I didn't change enough
And some have said,
That true loves something we are sure of
My only hope lies in your being confused
With all you said, I would wait one hundred summers
Just once again to be with you
On Monday evening, the cloudy skies
On two for Tuesday, I wanted to die
And so you love me, sometimes I find
But you only need me till the darkness takes the sun
Away from me, I've lost you
Away from me, I've lost you
Away from me, I've lost you
Away from me
I saw a silver sun
I wanted it to touch everyone
You have an arm to pull me back
But theres no way that I can give this up
Some other way, theres got to be another
Some other way, there has to be another
Some other way, theres got to be another way
We all are scientists who will not be afraid
I'm not saying that theres no hope for this
And you have tried to change my mind
But we all know, our systems broken
And I, I'll never vote again
Lyrics submitted by yuko_sworro
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I am often amazed at the submarines ability to write exactly what it is I am feeling.
If you read their story on their website it explains alot about the songs and makes the meaning alot clearer.
"We are scientists, we will not be afraid I'm not saying that theres no hope for this And you have tried to change my mind But we all know, our system's broken And I, I'll never vote again"
This part of the song is orgasmically good basically
i'm rather sure the "two for tuesday" line is "on super tuesday" (as the song is entitled vote and generally that tuesday is when the vote happens) -- but the song is gorgeous either way :)
i like that first part. the "you have changed, but i, i didnt change enough" and "some have said, true loves something we are sure of, my only hope lies in your being confused. with all thats said, i would wait one hundred summers, just once again to be with you"... awesome song.
On Monday evening, the cloudy skies On SUPER Tuesday, I wanted to die
The song is called 'Vote' because they broke up the day before Election Day.
this is my favorite submarines song. i love this cause the emotion is so raw and true.
Pretty easy to analyze, I think. Easy to listen to, too. I love it.
SOOO GOOD!!! who cares what it means. this song is awesome!!!!! yepz :)