[Chorus: Stephan Jenkins] (Losing a whole year) (Losing a whole year) I remember you and me used to spend The whole goddamn day in bed (Losing a whole year) Hiding in your room we'd lay like dogs And the phone would ring like a joke that's left unsaid (Losing a whole year)
[Chorus: Stephan Jenkins] (Losing a whole year) I remember you and me used to spend The whole goddamn day in bed
[Outro: Stephan Jenkins] Hey, bye Hey, bye
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“Losing a Whole Year” serves as the opener and fourth single of Third Eye Blind’s self-titled debut. Stephan Jenkins mulls over a break up “with a rich girl from Bernal Heights,” equating the time wasted on a failed relationship to the loss of an entire year.
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Frontman Stephan Jenkins has stated that the song “started from a riff that Kevin was playing on the guitar. The words were how that riff made me feel. The story is just lamenting the end of a relationship and all of its wasted time.” During a concert on December 9, 2000, Jenkins said that the song “is about a rich girl from Bernal Heights.”