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"
I got your picture, I'm coming with you
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
And I'm the pen
When the lights go off
I wanna watch the way you take the stage by storm
The way you wrap those boys around your finger
Go on and play the leader
'Cause you know it's what you're good at
The low road for the fast track
Make every second last
'Cause I got your picture, I'm coming with you
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
And I'm the pen
Make it count
When I'm the one who's selling you out
'Cause it feels like stealing hearts
Calling your name from the crowd
Doesn't that mean you'll be the show girl of the home team
I'll be the narrator
Telling another tale of the American dream
I see your name in lights
We could make you a star
Girl, we'll take the world by storm
It isn't that hard
'Cause I got your picture, I'm coming with you
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
And I'm the pen
Make it count
When I'm the one who's selling you out
'Cause it feels like stealing hearts
Calling your name from the crowd, whoa
Ha, ha
Take a breath, don't it sound so easy?
Never had a doubt, now I'm going crazy
Watching from the floor
Take a breath and let the rest come easy
Never settle down 'cause the cash flow leaves me
Always wanting more
'Cause I got your picture, I'm coming with you
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
And I'm the pen
Make it count
When I'm the one who's selling you out
'Cause it feels like stealing hearts
Calling your name from the crowd
'Cause I got your picture, I'm coming with you
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
And I'm the pen
When the lights go off
I wanna watch the way you take the stage by storm
The way you wrap those boys around your finger
Go on and play the leader
'Cause you know it's what you're good at
The low road for the fast track
Make every second last
'Cause I got your picture, I'm coming with you
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
And I'm the pen
Make it count
When I'm the one who's selling you out
'Cause it feels like stealing hearts
Calling your name from the crowd
Doesn't that mean you'll be the show girl of the home team
I'll be the narrator
Telling another tale of the American dream
I see your name in lights
We could make you a star
Girl, we'll take the world by storm
It isn't that hard
'Cause I got your picture, I'm coming with you
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
And I'm the pen
Make it count
When I'm the one who's selling you out
'Cause it feels like stealing hearts
Calling your name from the crowd, whoa
Ha, ha
Take a breath, don't it sound so easy?
Never had a doubt, now I'm going crazy
Watching from the floor
Take a breath and let the rest come easy
Never settle down 'cause the cash flow leaves me
Always wanting more
'Cause I got your picture, I'm coming with you
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
And I'm the pen
Make it count
When I'm the one who's selling you out
'Cause it feels like stealing hearts
Calling your name from the crowd
'Cause I got your picture, I'm coming with you
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
Dear Maria, Count Me In Lyrics as written by Jack Bassam Barakat Alexander William Gaskarth
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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it's about one of his friends who he found out became a stripper, then he got this whole scenario in his head that some guy (like a talent agent or manager or something) see her and wants to make her a star. the song is their conversation and stuff. alex wrote a whole thing about in the booklet or the single.
also guys, just cuz the girl in the songs name is maria doesn't mean that the girl who the song is about name is maria. just thought i'd point that out.
@tasteslikeFIREx 14 years later, it has been confirmed the girl is indeed named Maria and she's punk af.
fuck yeah, they did it again. god damn these boys are good.
This song is about a stripper, he told me at their acoustic set at Warped Tour in St. Petersburg.
carolineboo you're right. i remember in 100 bands you need to know in ap they said that one of their songs was about somebody trying to make a stripper a star
exactly Arden/carolineboo. In AP its says the song is about a writer talking to a stripper about making her into something bigger than what she is by turning her into an icon.
the song is about a stripper and her agent. the girl was a friend of alex's and he thought it was heaps funny that she wanted to be a stripper so he wrote a song about it. nothing more to it than that.
this sonq was written about the lead sinqers friend who he found out was a stripper . [ look up the interview on youtube .)
its about a stripper. haha. in an interview Alex stated its about his friend who told him she was a stripper and he was like cool. hahaa.
For the record I have kept quiet about it because I didn't care and I wanted to see what people wrote about me, I did not date Alex, and I NEVER told him I was a stripper, he found out from a friend, I am not famous. and I had to disappear off the face of the earth because I had too many people coming in to find me and talk to me.
And I didnt mean to just reply to you I wanted that to be a whole thread
This song is about a good friend of Alex, she told him she was going to become a stripper, Alex thought it was hilarious but he was willing to help her get huge. Hence,
Girl, we'll take the world by storm It isn't that hard
Because ATL was already famous by then and he has experience
This is what I got when I listened to it. It's similar to yours but there's a few differences.
I got your picture I'm coming with you Dear Maria, count me in There's a story at the bottom of this bottle Another pen
When the lights go out I wanna watch the way You take the stage by storm The way you wrap that boy around your finger You wanna play with me now? Cause you know it's what you're good at From small roads to the fast track Make every second theirs
Cause I got your picture I'm coming be with you Dear Maria, count me in There's a story at the bottom of this bottle Another pen
Make it count when I'm the one Who's selling you out Cause it feels like stealing hearts Calling your name from the crowd
Listen up here ? You'll be the show girl of the home team/your own team ? I'll be another .....? Telling another tale .....?
I see your name in lights We can make you a star Girl, we'll take the world by storm It isn't that hard
Cause I got your picture I'm coming with you Dear Maria, count me in There's a story at the bottom of this bottle Another pen Make it count when I'm the one Who's selling you out Cause it feels like stealing hearts Calling your name from the crowd
Take a breath, cause it's not so easy Never settle down Now it's getting crazy watching from the floor Take a breath and let the rest come easy Never settle down Because you'll be always wanting more
Cause I got your picture I'm coming with you Dear Maria, count me in There's a story at the bottom of this bottle Another pen Make it count when I'm the one Who's selling you out Cause it feels like stealing hearts Calling your name from the crowd
Cause I got your picture I'm coming with you Dear Maria, count me in There's a story at the bottom of this bottle.