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Old Wounds

Overcoming Relationship Baggage: PUP's 'Old Wounds' Explained
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Lyrics

I caught your eye on the back of the bus like you wanted

Caught your attention deliberately on the bus

You wanna know why I don't come around anymore?

Questioning why there's a lack of presence

Well, it's so fucking obvious

Reason for absence is glaringly apparent

I can't stand you hanging round lately

Discomfort with recent frequent company

I can't stand you trying to save me

Displeasure with attempts to rescue or help

It's so fucking frustrating

Intense frustration with the situation

I'm bored of the games and bored of the chase

Boredom with playing games and pursuing

That's the reason I left in the first place

Primary reason for departing previously


You keep trying to rip open old wounds

Continued effort to revisit past emotional pain

It's so embarrassing, don't you know I'm over you?

Expressing being completely over the other person


Now you wanna know where I've been lately

Interest in the recent whereabouts

You wanna know if I'm still a prick?

Curiosity if still possessing negative traits

Well, I am and you're not gonna change me

Asserting the persistence of negative traits

So you got another guy going with you

Acknowledging the presence of someone new in your life

You say you like him, but he's got a bad attitude

Noting flaws in the new person

Well, maybe he's perfect for you

Suggesting compatibility between the new person and the other

And maybe he deserves less trouble than you gave him

Speculating that the new person deserves less trouble

Or maybe he deserves his face in the pavement

Extreme anger suggesting harm towards the new person


You keep trying to rip open old wounds

Reiterating the attempt to bring back past pain

It's so embarrassing, don't you know I'm over you?

Reinforcing the sentiment of being emotionally detached


And I'm trying to get straight

Struggling to understand the reason for returning

Why the fuck I came back in the first place

Questioning the decision to come back


You know I've never been good at anything

Admitting a history of failure and causing damage

Except for fucking up and ruining everything

Recognizing a pattern of consistently ruining things

And I'm sick of it, it's so fucking frustrating

Expressing intense frustration with this pattern

You're ripping open old wounds, it's embarrassing

Highlighting the discomfort of reopening old emotional wounds

Don't you know I'm over you?

Reasserting the emotional detachment from the other person

The lyrics of this song contain explicit content.
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