Classic love story true to his western tx roots. One of my favorites as a story, but I think there are alot of songs that are amazing not even listed on this site. I guess I should figure out how to add them, because I have about 8 REK cd's.
It's easier to run
Replacing this pain with something numb
It's so much easier to go
Than face all this pain here all alone
Something has been taken from deep inside of me
A secret I've kept locked away
No one can ever see
Wounds so deep they never show
They never go away
Like moving pictures in my head
For years and years they've played
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
If I could take all the shame to the grave I would
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
I would take all the shame to the grave
It's easier to run
Replacing this pain with something numb
It's so much easier to go
Than face all this pain here all alone
Sometimes I remember the darkness of my past
Bringing back these memories I wish I didn't have
Sometimes I think of letting go and never looking back
And never moving forward so there'd never be a past
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
If I could take all the shame to the grave I would
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
I would take all the shame to the grave
Just washing it aside
All of the helplessness inside
Pretending I don't feel misplaced
Is so much simpler than change
It's easier to run
Replacing this pain with something numb
It's so much easier to go
Than face all this pain here all alone
It's easier to run
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made
It's easier to go
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
I would take all the shame to the grave
Replacing this pain with something numb
It's so much easier to go
Than face all this pain here all alone
Something has been taken from deep inside of me
A secret I've kept locked away
No one can ever see
Wounds so deep they never show
They never go away
Like moving pictures in my head
For years and years they've played
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
If I could take all the shame to the grave I would
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
I would take all the shame to the grave
It's easier to run
Replacing this pain with something numb
It's so much easier to go
Than face all this pain here all alone
Sometimes I remember the darkness of my past
Bringing back these memories I wish I didn't have
Sometimes I think of letting go and never looking back
And never moving forward so there'd never be a past
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
If I could take all the shame to the grave I would
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
I would take all the shame to the grave
Just washing it aside
All of the helplessness inside
Pretending I don't feel misplaced
Is so much simpler than change
It's easier to run
Replacing this pain with something numb
It's so much easier to go
Than face all this pain here all alone
It's easier to run
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made
It's easier to go
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
I would take all the shame to the grave
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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.
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Ebba Grön
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
To me, this song is about pushing away your past. Something horrible happened, so you "run" from it, instead of facing it and overcoming it. But in reality, all you want to do is erase it. Erase the guilt, pain, and everything else. But you can't. So you avoid it.
specifically, its about the time chester was molested as a child. "a secret i've kept locked away no one can ever see"
wounds so deep they never show................what a real line.can anybody feel it??
@Nipon yes.... completely a real line... I created an account just to reply to you... because that is exactly what it can be like.. the line is SOOO real
I think this song speaks to everybody thats why i love it because its vague enough anyone can relate. everyone has something in their past they hate that just wont go away, and it taunts them and prevents them from moving on. my friend used to do drugs and be in a gang and killed a few ppl and he just is so ashamed of his past and never speaks of it and drinks his depression away even though he changed the bodies of th eppl he killed has never stopped flashing back. This reminds me of him, sometimes it comes so strong he just needs to "run away" and yknow what whether u like it or not everyone likes running away my friend has everything but hates her parents and her mom for sceaming at her and she never comes home. we all have our coping methods and i believe this is what its talking about.
For me this song isn't only about getting depressed over you past and feeling pain/anger/guilt. In the song the lines "Sometimes I think of letting go And never looking back And never moving forward so There would never be a past" Show that the person is willing to commit suicide in order to never experience the same kind of pain they once did that by this day haunts them down.
@Capricornkid ya.. I agree... it is such a powerful line... and it makes perfect sense... "letting go" = suicide and ".... never moving forward" pretty much states no longer living to create any more possibility of the past that consumes them.. <br />
i think this song is about having problems, with past, present, and future, etc =P but no one will listen to you, to help you with them, so you just repress the feelings you have, and just run away. like most lp songs, i love this song, and i can relate to it (well, at least my strange meanings to their songs =P).
Great song, I listen to it a lot when I'm stressed out. I kind of took it as almost hoping to just run away from life for awhile - the past, the present, the future. Just get away from the everyday frusterations for awhile - some stemming from the past. Just my thoughts!
@maski2002 amen to that.. I think we all feel like this from time to time, that is why we find the song so awesome.. it's still one of my goto songs when stressed... <br />
I LOVE this song! One of my favorites that LP has done. I think we've all felt like this at one time or another.
@Gstring11 Agree.. we've all been here... and it sucks... but it's great when we can just listen to a tune like this an see how much power is in those words..
The best song on Meteora.
Like Chipmunk777 said "no one will listen to you, to help you with them" instead of facing them, Its easier to run. To bury the memories. To change. To hate what you were. Having something terrerible happened to you. Be a funning stock. To have a bunch of shame. This song has so much mean. Sometime a feel the pain the inflicted in this song, these lyrics are so strong.
"If I could change, I would Take back the pain, I would Retrace every wrong move that I made, I would"
i love the way that the vocals build up on themselves during that part...