New Person, Same Old Mistakes Lyrics
"How could you let us down?"
But they don't know what I felt
Or see it from this way around
Feeling it overtake
All that I used to hate
Wonder what if we trade
I tried but it's way too late
All the slides I don't read
Two sides of me can't agree
When I breathe in too deep
Going with what I always longed for
(But you make the same old mistakes)
I don't care I'm in love
(Stop before it's too late)
Feel like a brand new person
(But you make the same old mistakes)
I finally know what is love
(You don't have what it takes)
(Stop while it's not too late)
(I know there's too much at stake)
(Making the same mistakes)
And I still don't know why it's happening
(Stop before it's too late)
And I still don't know
I know you don't think it's right
I know that you think it's fake
Maybe fake's what I like
As long as I have the right
I'm thinking in black and white
I'm thinking it's worth the fight
Soon to be out of sight
Moving it out this time
Going with what I always longed for
(But you make the same old mistakes)
I don't care I'm in love
(Stop before it's too late)
Feel like a brand new person
(But you make the same old mistakes)
I finally know what is love
(You don't have what it takes)
(Stop before it's too late)
But baby this love is so different from the rest
And I know it seems hard to accept
But you've got to do it, and she's got her regrets
And I know that it's hard to digest
I really know this shit is as good as it gets
And I know it seems hard to accept
But you've got your demons, and she's got her regrets
But you've got your demons, and she's got her regrets
So happy to know that it's right
In a new direction
So happy to know I've come to fall
Stop thinking that the only option was
Feel like a brand new person
I finally know what it's like
Stop thinking that the only option was
So happy to know I've come to fall
Stop thinking that the only option was
And I know it's hard to describe
Stop thinking that the only option was
So happy to know that it's right
To me, it feels like a guy with so much defects of charecter, in love for a girl that he never had, but this love its very delicate, coz its a love based on a broken man. The music its like a man talking to his friends about this love or maybe talking to himself, in the first stanza they friends are saying that they are disapointed with him, for wasting so much time and energy with a thing that he doesnt deserve or a love that my hurt someone. Although every word his friends had said, he knows they are not seeing by his eyes, he know he is broken, he know that this action of selfish its waht he used to hate, but this love its what he "always longed for".
The second stanza he feels like a new person when in love, and the back vocal are they friends or his mind saying the true to him, that this is not going to last, that he eventually will show himself, but nothing of those words matters, coz the love he is feelling right now its so much bigger than forecasts or thoughts about the future and past mistakes.
On the third stanza, he knows this love is worth fighting for, to overcome his defects, even if he is fooling himself, even when they friends or himself call him fake, he knows if fake = love, than he is a fake person.
In the penultimate stanza, he is sayng for whoever is listining, that he knows that all this hypocryse its hard to understand, but everyone got his mistakes, and this dont deny him from love.
In the last one, he is in peace with himself, he knows this is the right direction, and all those thought lead him to feel like a new person, that will overcome his old mistakes, even when everyone think will do the same ol mistakes.
@danylo1020 I think a lot of what you said is accurate. But what he's in love with isn't a girl. I think the song is about drug addction. "How could you let us down? They don't know what I found"
@danylo1020 I think a lot of what you said is accurate. But what he's in love with isn't a girl. I think the song is about drug addction. "How could you let us down? They don't know what I found"
Each verse reads like a spiral. Self doubt, giving in. Builds into the chorus where suddenly everything is okay. That's drug addiction. You can be 10 years clean and as soon as you relapse, it feels like everything is okay again. But there's that little voice in the back of your head saying that you're making the same...
Each verse reads like a spiral. Self doubt, giving in. Builds into the chorus where suddenly everything is okay. That's drug addiction. You can be 10 years clean and as soon as you relapse, it feels like everything is okay again. But there's that little voice in the back of your head saying that you're making the same old mistakes, repeating the same behavior that got you here.
I was sent this song the other day from my ex currently seeing. When I heard the song I’m not going to lie I’m baffled totally. The song is so confusing for me ????
I was sent this song the other day from my ex currently seeing. When I heard the song I’m not going to lie I’m baffled totally. The song is so confusing for me ????
One thing about ANTI (Rihanna's latest album) was that I discovered this song, and Tame Impala. It's just so good
The first time I heard this song it sounded like a guy who has deep feelings towards this girl yet he feels like he's not enough and it's even wrong to have feelings for her and on top of all his friends are reminding him that shes well out of his league, and he just tell them that she is the one and he doesn't care to crash and fail because finally he has found a girl that brings the best of him and he has decided to give it a fight and go even tho this might mean he surpassing his fears and broken parts of him in this search and he has nothing left to lose.
To me, it's someone falling into a bad relationship. It seems to be someone either fighting with their emotions in their head, or hearing the warnings from a friend, or both. "...they don't know what I've found, or see it from this way 'round...all the signs I don't read..." This whole section reads like this person knows that the woman he's falling for is not right for him and will eventually lead to pain. His friends have warned him about her, instead of listening or heeding some red flags about her he's justifying his loving mistakes in his head by saying they aren't seeing his point of view. In the chorus he is going hard against the warnings against making the same old mistakes (I don't care, I'm in love). He continues fighting against the warnings again eagerly embracing something he knows is going to end badly (I know that you think it's fake, maybe fake's what I like. Point is I have the right.) In the end he will be unable to turn away from a bad choice of pursuing this woman who will not be right for him, because feeling like a brand new person by chasing what he's always longed for is just too hard to pass up.