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.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Trapped in time and I don't know what to do
These friends of mine, I can see right through
You don't gotta tell me I don't gotta move
'Cause I'm sittin' back here sharin' in the groove
No I'm no nice guy (Me no are no nice guy)
No I'm no nice guy (Me no are no nice guy)
No I'm no nice guy (Me no are no nice guy)
I walk through the hallways inside my mind
I chase the backbeat from behind
Big dude in the doorway was blockin' my way
He reached to grab me and this is what he said
No I'm no nice guy (Me no are no nice guy)
No I'm no nice guy (Me no are no nice guy)
No I'm no nice guy (Me no are no nice guy)
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Indians lying on dawn's highway bleeding
Ghosts in the young child's fragile ... mind
Ah!
Careful with that axe, Eugene
Mother
Careful with that axe, Eugene
Ah!
These friends of mine, I can see right through
You don't gotta tell me I don't gotta move
'Cause I'm sittin' back here sharin' in the groove
No I'm no nice guy (Me no are no nice guy)
No I'm no nice guy (Me no are no nice guy)
No I'm no nice guy (Me no are no nice guy)
I walk through the hallways inside my mind
I chase the backbeat from behind
Big dude in the doorway was blockin' my way
He reached to grab me and this is what he said
No I'm no nice guy (Me no are no nice guy)
No I'm no nice guy (Me no are no nice guy)
No I'm no nice guy (Me no are no nice guy)
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Indians lying on dawn's highway bleeding
Ghosts in the young child's fragile ... mind
Ah!
Careful with that axe, Eugene
Mother
Careful with that axe, Eugene
Ah!
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I couldn't have said it better brah. If you look at my profile and my journals I have extensive entries about acid and music.<br /> <br /> Ok so I live in a commune and I told all the brahs I need to figure out what this song means. Because we have the Phish book. We have to read it as kids and take a test.<br /> <br /> All the brahs were very supportive of this quest they played different Mike's Song and I walked amongst them gliding on the wings of LSD and this is what I figured out<br /> <br /> Mike is a chill dude man. Like really chill. He likes to chill.<br /> <br /> Trey spread unheady vibes of ambition and forced Mike to write a song.<br /> <br /> Being the chill, respectable dude that he is Mike too acid and went in the woods.<br /> <br /> Ok so Mike is a chill dude but he's a little clumsy, let's be honesty he rides one of those modern go ped things. So Mike was walking in the woods and a root tripped him.<br /> <br /> Like I said chill dude totally cool on acid, well he fell and the fell lasted for hours. From the moment his foot touched the root and he began to fell it was hours of self questioning. That's where the line trapped in time is from.<br /> <br /> When he hit the ground he hit revalation like Buddaha man like he suffered for minutes but it was really eons and then he hit the ground it was Nirvana.<br /> <br /> That's what this song is about brah.