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"
I can't deny it all my life
It's the token of my life
Something you would try
For the best in the obscene
Just look on the TV screen
To pass away the while
It doesn't matter if you're
Red, black, or in the sack
I've got my grip, I've got a hold
Nothing ties one down like prime time in hi-fi
But now its getting old
People stop and stare
Here, there, and everywhere
They've got the blueprints for life
They keep pretending
The world is ending
You'll be fictionized
So stop the human drive
The fierce power switching on the
Ripe adolescent light
Terminates in five
The people standing in the lines
Have seen the film a million times
With a pocket full of dimes
And so unless it is for free
You'll spin the country on its side
To be intensified
People stop and stare
Here, there, and everywhere
They've got the blueprints for life
They keep pretending
The world is ending
You'll be fictionized
It's on this TV
It's on that TV
It's on your TV
It's on my TV
It's on his TV
It's on her TV
It's on this TV
It's on your TV screen
You'll keep pretending
That the world is ending
You'll be fictionized
It's the token of my life
Something you would try
For the best in the obscene
Just look on the TV screen
To pass away the while
It doesn't matter if you're
Red, black, or in the sack
I've got my grip, I've got a hold
Nothing ties one down like prime time in hi-fi
But now its getting old
People stop and stare
Here, there, and everywhere
They've got the blueprints for life
They keep pretending
The world is ending
You'll be fictionized
So stop the human drive
The fierce power switching on the
Ripe adolescent light
Terminates in five
The people standing in the lines
Have seen the film a million times
With a pocket full of dimes
And so unless it is for free
You'll spin the country on its side
To be intensified
People stop and stare
Here, there, and everywhere
They've got the blueprints for life
They keep pretending
The world is ending
You'll be fictionized
It's on this TV
It's on that TV
It's on your TV
It's on my TV
It's on his TV
It's on her TV
It's on this TV
It's on your TV screen
You'll keep pretending
That the world is ending
You'll be fictionized
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Best CKY song in my opinion
yeah deffintally one of there best songs
This song kicks ass. Cool intro song to CKY Landspeed
I'll admit I only listen to this stuff cos i heard them on jackass but theyre a quality band
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friends introduced me to the movies... it was all a chain reaction from there... fucking genius group of kids, agree?
I hate bam hes a god damn genius. I love the whole CKY crew, band and videos. Im just extremely jealous. Ever heard the Oil version of this song? Deron sounds so young in it.
this song is very cool! gr8
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