Going Again — Summary

Well Here I go again And things were going so well for me I thought I was over you I though I was over your messy house And your smelly dog And your plain white t-shirts Nope. Well Here we go again With blushes and quiet stares And laughing at jokes no one else understands And me wishing Wishing again And again And again And crying Again And again And again I thought I was over you I thought I was over your smile And your perfectly combed hair And your brains And your muscles (What other guy has both?) I thought I was going to be okay this time I thought I could just be your friend for once For fucking once (Would that be so hard?) Well let's be honest You make everything hard Except for talking And laughing And blushing You make that easy Well Here you go again Making me lov- I mean LIKE, I MEAN LIKE!!! you Here we go again (Well, there's no we, really- not yet) Here I go again

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Someone who swore they were over a crush finds out they aren't. The speaker opens with confidence, listing the things they thought had cured them: the messy house, the smelly dog, the plain white t-shirts. Then comes a flat "Nope." From there the poem is a slide back into old feelings, full of blushing, quiet stares, and jokes only the two of them get.

The mood is funny and painful at once. The repeated "again, and again, and again" makes the longing feel like a loop the speaker can't escape, and the crying sits right beside the laughter. The brackets add a teasing, honest voice, like "(What other guy has both?)" and the admission that there's no "we" yet. The best moment is the stumble from "lov-" to "LIKE, I MEAN LIKE!!!", where the speaker nearly says too much and panics. By the end, "Here I go again" returns with less denial and more resignation, as if the speaker already knows how this will go.

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