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"
It's poetry in motion
She turned her tender eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Mm, but she blinded me with science
She blinded me with science
And failed me in biology, yeah-yeah
Now-uh, huh-huh
When I'm dancing close to her
Blinding me with science, science
Science
I can smell the chemicals
Blinding me with science, science
Science
Science
Mm no, but it's poetry in motion
And when she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
She blinded me with science
She blinded me with science
And failed me in geometry
When she's dancing next to me
Blinding me with science, science
Science
Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm
I can hear machinery
Blinding me with science, science
Science
Huh, it's poetry in motion
And now she's making love to me
The spheres are in commotion
The elements in harmony
She blinded me with science
She blinded me with science
And hit me with technology
Good heavens Miss Sakamoto, you're beautiful
I, I don't believe it
There she goes again
She's tidied up and I can't find anything
All my tubes and wires
Careful notes
And antiquated notions
But, it's poetry in motion
And when she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Uh, she's blinding me with science
She blinded me with science
She blinded me with
She turned her tender eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Mm, but she blinded me with science
She blinded me with science
And failed me in biology, yeah-yeah
Now-uh, huh-huh
When I'm dancing close to her
Blinding me with science, science
Science
I can smell the chemicals
Blinding me with science, science
Science
Science
Mm no, but it's poetry in motion
And when she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
She blinded me with science
She blinded me with science
And failed me in geometry
When she's dancing next to me
Blinding me with science, science
Science
Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm
I can hear machinery
Blinding me with science, science
Science
Huh, it's poetry in motion
And now she's making love to me
The spheres are in commotion
The elements in harmony
She blinded me with science
She blinded me with science
And hit me with technology
Good heavens Miss Sakamoto, you're beautiful
I, I don't believe it
There she goes again
She's tidied up and I can't find anything
All my tubes and wires
Careful notes
And antiquated notions
But, it's poetry in motion
And when she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Uh, she's blinding me with science
She blinded me with science
She blinded me with
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I must say, I really disagree with MikeSty. I don't believe the song was made to be analyzed that much. It's just a simple infatuation with a lab assistant, put together to make one crazy song.
No ones commented on this song yet?!?!?!
This song is great!
I think it's pretty straightforward really... a scientist falls in love for the first time, and all his scientific knowledge and investigations lose all meaning to him as his emotional side is awakened. Scientists are stereotypically thought of as being firm and emotionless; this song is about a scientist of that nature being awakened to his emotional side through love.
I remember listening to this before I understood sexual innuendos, then listening to it later and appreciating it on a whole new level.
But either way, I love this song to pieces.
A nerd loves a woman who makes fun of his size and uses toys on him, but he's so infatuated with her he forgets himself ("tidied up and I can't find anything" . . . "antiquated notions") . . . she tricks him into changing despite himself.
his brain shut down
I dunno Incu...I always thought it was about a guy in school who gets with his teacher?
I think it means he let uncontrollable desire cause him to make a mistake that he now regrets and is hurt because she left.
this is about being distracted bya girl and making bad grades
It's about a scientist who's in love with or swordsy for his lab assistant
CuteSparnkina, it would appear that way. The first 12 times you listen to it, that's just what it says.
I am being completely serious - I have come to realize this song is about infatuation, uncontrollable desire and rape. 'science' is a parallel to 'pepper spray' and 'technology' is a parallel to a "baseball bat" or something to that effect.
I think these lyrics have several mistakes in them, but regardless, "smelling" of chemicals is an obvious reference. So yes, while he has an absurd infatuation with his "lab assistant" or whatever you'd like to call her, the song takes it a step further by subtly implying that his actions towards her were met with ferocity and he is dillusional.