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"
How can I find something
That two can take
Without stumbling as we
Walk into our future's wake
I'm like a broken record
That you can play
Repeating as if it matters
Everything I want to say
I'll be all right
As long as it matters
As long as you're here with me now
Forget that time
It's nothing we touch and see
All this is fine
Even as it crashes down on me
I'm looking around
There's nothing that I could want
More than to tell you
There's no more than we've already got
I'll be all right
As long as it matters
As long as you're here with me now
Forget that our time is almost up I'll be all right
That two can take
Without stumbling as we
Walk into our future's wake
I'm like a broken record
That you can play
Repeating as if it matters
Everything I want to say
I'll be all right
As long as it matters
As long as you're here with me now
Forget that time
It's nothing we touch and see
All this is fine
Even as it crashes down on me
I'm looking around
There's nothing that I could want
More than to tell you
There's no more than we've already got
I'll be all right
As long as it matters
As long as you're here with me now
Forget that our time is almost up I'll be all right
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wtf?! no one has posted anything here?! god! this is one of the best songs ever!
@stinger Seriously!!
this is a great song no doubt about that
damn this is one of his best songs. no comments from anyone else?
this album came out durning my teenage years. It reminds me of those years of selfishness and angst. I still love the album even now. And yes, i am still selfish, probably even more so.
this song is as depressing as it sounds. as long as it matters is another relationship song. the guy is madly in love, but the girl isn't very responsive. they have a 1 night stand, but then there relationship appears to be over. the guy pours his heart out trying to get the girl to stay with him, but nothing comes of it. however, he knows he'll be alright at least until the night is over.
Everything is going to hell and he's losing her, but he's just trying to make the best of it, tell himself he'll be ok and take what comfort he can from her while she's still around.
Great song. Reminds me of a girl I knew for three days who changed me forever, I still think about her all the time, I'd bet she doesn't even rememeber me. I probably need counseling!
What a song to play reminiscing about the past. It will get you teary-eyed no doubt. A+++++++ Song.
the traditional depressing sound of GB. as long as it matters tells about a guy and a girl who have sex, but don't have a relationship. he wants her to make a commitment, but she's not into that. he's greatly hurt that they can't be together, but he settles for sex. hense that he'll be alright 'as long as your here with me now.'
This is a good song that I never heard until I picked up their best-of compilation.
It's easy to explain the "as long as you're here with me now" part
..but what about the "as long as it matters" ? that's the title, after all. What is it that "matters"? What about the "mattering" does he take solace in? Who does is "matter" to - the guy or the girl??