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'm not comfortable with how we never talk
And I miss you since you went out for that walk
Its been 13 months since May
It still feels like yesterday
I was scared to fix what I had broke
Its a lonely place to live with just a ghost
There is love left in my life, I will see
But you still hurt me
I can still see all your clothes thrown on the floor
There are friends who never call me anymore
I remember throwing out all of your things
But I think I kept my ring
I'm not comfortable with how the story ends
We were lovers and now we're not even friends
You were perfect and I guess I'm just a creep
But you still hurt me
And I miss you since you went out for that walk
Its been 13 months since May
It still feels like yesterday
I was scared to fix what I had broke
Its a lonely place to live with just a ghost
There is love left in my life, I will see
But you still hurt me
I can still see all your clothes thrown on the floor
There are friends who never call me anymore
I remember throwing out all of your things
But I think I kept my ring
I'm not comfortable with how the story ends
We were lovers and now we're not even friends
You were perfect and I guess I'm just a creep
But you still hurt me
Lyrics submitted by PepsiOne
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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Awesome song, I think it's about his wife walking out on him one day and never coming back home. He still feels that pain of her abandonment and leaving him and he talks about throwing her things out but keeping his ring which you can assume is his wedding ring. At the end, he says that he is still uncomfortable about how they parted and realizes that they went from lovers to strangers in an instance and that her being gone still upsets him.
Great song from such a talented artist.
Basically about a guy who messed up but he is saying that although he was the one who messed up she still hurt him.
This song shows that even the person who does the cheating can be hurt by a break up. We learn in a previous song on this album (Just not Eachother) that when these two people were younger, she broke his heart. While it is never explicitly state what she has done to hurt him those many years ago, the speaker does state the he forgave her.
I think this song expresses the frustration and perhaps shock that his wife has been away so long (13 months since May) and that she could simply walk out on him. Yes, he he caused this problem ("what I had broke") but the fact that she could not stand beside him in this hour of need is what has hurt him so much.
He has thrown out all the trivial material things that used to belong to her- but believes has kept the one thing that symbolized their love- his ring (read: wedding ring).
Its probobly the best song ever written. I love. Its so real. When i really feel that this is the moment, i lissen to this song and feel like i want to just lie next to the girl i love and feel her breathe and look in to her eyes.
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william fitzsimmons is a pure genius in everything that he writes you can sense all that he put into this song, which clearly was written about his wife that left him. the last stanza is so beautiful in a depressing way. i love how he dissed himself by referring to himself as a creep, and his ex wife perfect, yet even though he has accepted the fact that his wife was so much better than him, that doesnt justify what she put him through. i feel his pain just by reading these lyrics, and even more so listening to his soothing voice.