Fixing What Past
Rewriting Regrets: Embracing a Different Past
Lyrics
If you could change one thing
If there is one thing you could change
About yourself in the past
About your past self
Change your clothes, get that haircut
Change superficial aspects like clothing and hairstyle
Write songs that impact
Create impactful music
Would you get those tattoos?
Consider altering visible choices like tattoos
What's the meaning of you?
Question the essence and significance of oneself
Could you run off that weight?
Contemplate losing excess weight
Would you stay up too late?
Decide whether to stay up late
With your friends spinning records
Enjoying time with friends playing records
Would you go back to school?
Consider returning to school
Tell an ex that you love them?
Express love to a past partner
Your dad would be proud
Receive approval from one's father
That you put in the effort
Put in effort and be proud of achievements
To somewhat succeed
Achieve a level of success, though partial
Just look in the mirror
Reflect on oneself positively in the mirror
Say you're happy to be me
Acknowledge happiness with one's current self
Play it back rewind the tape
Reflect on past experiences, rewind and review
Try and keep your secrets safe
Attempt to keep personal secrets safe
Cross your mind from reel to reel,
Thoughts crossing the mind like a film reel
And I don't know how bad you feel
Uncertain about the extent of emotional distress
But you want to be different
Desire for change and individuality
And I don't want to be different anyway
Ambivalence about wanting to be different
There's no chance to say
No opportunity to express desires for change
Well you wanna go back
Express a wish to go back in time
And I wanna know, why?
Questioning the motivation for wanting to go back
Fixing what passed
The act of fixing or changing the past
I hope it was goodbye
Hoping that the past changes were for the better
Feeling so down
Feeling emotionally low
With that look in the eyes
Noting a specific look in the eyes
Fixing whose past?
Questioning whose past is being addressed
I hope it was goodbye
Expressing a hopeful farewell to the past
I hope it was goodbye
Reiteration of the hope for a goodbye to the past
Long drives on interstates
Reflecting on long drives and the passage of time
Wondering how long it takes
Contemplating duration during travels
Short walks on avenue
Short walks reminiscing about a past connection
Just one more night with you
Yearning for one more night with a significant other
You wanna be smiling
Desire for happiness, mirroring someone else's
I wanna smile too
Expressing the universal wish to smile
Just please rewind, those times with you
Yearning to revisit happy times with someone
When you're feeling too high
Experiencing a high or euphoria
(Come down)
An urging to come down from emotional highs
When you take your own life
Reflecting on the impact of taking one's own life
(Somehow)
Acknowledging the gravity of such an act
When the Music's too loud
When external stimuli become overwhelming
(Turn down)
Suggesting a need to lower the volume of life's challenges
When you said it was goodbye
Recalling a past goodbye, perhaps regretfully
(Not now)
Expressing a delay in addressing certain issues
(Not now)
Reiteration of a delayed response or action
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