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"
Don't ever take away from me my pornography
We obviously don't agree on what's obscene
I have the right to choose what I
Want to see and read
Don't try to take away from me
My right to privacy what I
Do is no one's business but me
So stay in your missionary position
I hope that you get bored to death
There's no way I'm going through life
Having vanilla sex
The government's trying to get in
Your bedroom you better lock your
Door and close your shades because
There could be someone watching you today
Why do you try to make things illegal
Why do we have to be twenty one
Are you afraid that people are having
Too much fun
Why do you care what I do in my bedroom
Why do you want to know how I screw
It seems to me you've got nothing better
To do.
We obviously don't agree on what's obscene
I have the right to choose what I
Want to see and read
Don't try to take away from me
My right to privacy what I
Do is no one's business but me
So stay in your missionary position
I hope that you get bored to death
There's no way I'm going through life
Having vanilla sex
The government's trying to get in
Your bedroom you better lock your
Door and close your shades because
There could be someone watching you today
Why do you try to make things illegal
Why do we have to be twenty one
Are you afraid that people are having
Too much fun
Why do you care what I do in my bedroom
Why do you want to know how I screw
It seems to me you've got nothing better
To do.
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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Great song. It's a pretty accurate representation of the government, and so it must rule. Plus, Rancid doesn't to fuck up a cover of it too badly.
Direct song, as always by NOFX. Probably makes more sense nowadays, with GOVNT all over people on the internet....sheesh.
punk in drublic says... yep, pretty direct... the government can watch you every second of everyday, but they still can't find osama bin ladin.... HA!
direct and totally on point. these days more than ever i think, with the current administration and all
yeah but this song is so out there "dont take away from me my pornograpy" so halerious hahhaaahahahahhahhahahahha
i like rancid's version better than nofx. maybe cuz i heard it first...perhaps i dont know. but nofx's is not aggressive enough
I dunno.. I like Rancids just fine but theres something about a orginial that's... orginial... :)
both versions are good
I usually love it when a really good band covers a band's song. After all it is two different version of the song. I always end up listening to both again sometime. The Original has its high points and the cover version usually has its high points. I do like the Rancid version better, which is sort of wierd because Nofx is my favorate band, though Rancid is like my third fave, so I gotta give'em credit where credit is due. there cover of this song is awesome!
Anyway, this song is about how their is actually a real law on the books that you can't have any sex other than missionary sex. I bet most of your didn't know that. You gotta remember when they wrote the song the internet really wasn't around yet. So the porn they refer to was magazine porn and live shows. I think during that time period the government was trying to restrict that too. This song is a song about the government trying to control people's sex habbits. Only allowed to have missionary position sex = vanilla sex.
Thats not a law in all places. It is a law in Washinton DC amung other places, but not everywhere. Theres all sorta crazy laws, line oral sex is outlawed in places too. Thats what you get when you have a government as greedy and fickle as the American government.