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 the same as I was when I was 6 years old
And oh my God I feel so damn old
I don't really feel anything
On a plane, I can see the tiny lights below
And oh my God, they look so alone
Do they really feel anything?
Oh my God, I've gotta gotta gotta gotta move on
Where do you move when what you're moving from
Is yourself?
The universe works on a math equation
that never even ever really ends in the end
Infinity spirals out creation
We're on the tip of its tongue, and it is saying
We ain't sure where you stand
You ain't machines and you ain't land
And the plants and the animals, they are linked
And the plants and the animals eat each other
Oh my God and oh my cat
I told my Dad what I need
Well I know what I have and want
But I don't know what I need
Well, he said he said he said he said
"Where we're going I'm dead."
And oh my God I feel so damn old
I don't really feel anything
On a plane, I can see the tiny lights below
And oh my God, they look so alone
Do they really feel anything?
Oh my God, I've gotta gotta gotta gotta move on
Where do you move when what you're moving from
Is yourself?
The universe works on a math equation
that never even ever really ends in the end
Infinity spirals out creation
We're on the tip of its tongue, and it is saying
We ain't sure where you stand
You ain't machines and you ain't land
And the plants and the animals, they are linked
And the plants and the animals eat each other
Oh my God and oh my cat
I told my Dad what I need
Well I know what I have and want
But I don't know what I need
Well, he said he said he said he said
"Where we're going I'm dead."
Lyrics submitted by OwnPersonalDemon, edited by HughJassle
Never Ending Math Equation Lyrics as written by Isaac Brock Eric Judy
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Now that's brilliance! Like this song. Which I have no idea what it means.
woah, thats so sweet
Few corrections:
Is yourself? The universe works on a math equation that never even ever really even has any end Infinity spirals out creation
And the plants and the animals eat each other Oh my God and oh my cat I told myself what I need Well I know what I have and want
But I don't know what I need Well, he said he said he said he said "Bad words don't weigh nothin'" I spent my whole life in a sea of pain Don't know what's right, but I know what ain't
Wow, the "bad words don't weigh nothin" part sounds perfectly like both interpretations of the lyrics. :o
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hey ass read the post above me "but did you hear something about Isaac Brock getting charged with rape?? What the hell?! " i was answering him jerk meat.
learn to click 'post reply' then so that people can understand you're replying and not making a new point.<br /> duh.
It sounds like "that never even ever really even ends in the end" instead of what you have written
thank you!
Maybe it's just me, but to me, it sound like the song is saying (on the first time this verse is played) ". . . .that never even ever realy ends, In the end if it inspires our creation, we are on the tip of its tongs and it is saying, well. . . ." Just my two cents.. And if you would kindly forgive any ill spelling or poor grammar that would be apreciated.
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this song is really cool. it is a blast to play on the guitar and sing along with. I have no idea what it means...