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 know you're antiseptic, your deodorant smells nice
I'd like to get to know you, you're deep frozen like the ice
She's a germ free adolescent, cleanliness is her obsession
Cleans her teeth ten times a day
Scrub away, scrub away, scrub away the S.R. way
You may get to touch her if your gloves are sterilized
Rinse your mouth with Listerine, blow disinfectant in her eyes
She's a germ free adolescent, cleanliness is her obsession
Cleans her teeth ten times a day
Scrub away, scrub away, scrub away the S.R. way
Her phobia is infection, she needs one to survive
It's her built-in protection, without fear she'd give up and die
She's a germ free adolescent, cleanliness is her obsession
Cleans her teeth ten times a day
Scrub away, scrub away, scrub away the S.R. way
She's a germ free adolescent, cleanliness is her obsession (4x)
Cleans her teeth ten times a day
Scrub away, scrub away, scrub away the S.R. way
I'd like to get to know you, you're deep frozen like the ice
She's a germ free adolescent, cleanliness is her obsession
Cleans her teeth ten times a day
Scrub away, scrub away, scrub away the S.R. way
You may get to touch her if your gloves are sterilized
Rinse your mouth with Listerine, blow disinfectant in her eyes
She's a germ free adolescent, cleanliness is her obsession
Cleans her teeth ten times a day
Scrub away, scrub away, scrub away the S.R. way
Her phobia is infection, she needs one to survive
It's her built-in protection, without fear she'd give up and die
She's a germ free adolescent, cleanliness is her obsession
Cleans her teeth ten times a day
Scrub away, scrub away, scrub away the S.R. way
She's a germ free adolescent, cleanliness is her obsession (4x)
Cleans her teeth ten times a day
Scrub away, scrub away, scrub away the S.R. way
Lyrics submitted by x_melancholy_x, edited by harshal109
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I have long felt that this was one of the most beautiful songs ever written. I have known people like this -- nominally terrified of disease, but really terrified of human contact. It's a method of control. There's a bit of ambiguity in the last line: does she need a phobia, or an infection to survive? My suspicion, and it is only a suspicion, is that s.r. must mean "state recommended."
actually, SR was a British toothpaste. but I think your interpretation was insightful.
@asstronaut The song is about incecurity that comes from feeling out of control. The creation of 'phobials' helps give the sufferer something to control, providing them with the illusion that they are in control when they are actually stil not in control, because none of us can control the environment we live in. This reflects Poly's own struggle with mental health issues throughout her life.<br /> <br /> The line 'scrub away the SR way' is a direct reference to an advert for Gibbs SR toothpaste, that had the tagline, "Clean your teeth the SR way". Poly was a sharp commentator on modern life and it's no coincidence that an advert for Gibbs SR toothpaste was the first ever advert shown on broadcast TV, this was Poly subverting the media.<br /> <br /> She was smart, funny and a true original, she will be greatly missed, the world is a poorer place without her.
SR Toothpaste ad from 1955 on youtube: youtube.com/watch
Pertinent.
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The SR way refers to SR toothpaste.
O.C.D. I love this song.
Very beatuful song indeed.
Whose slogan/advert at one tiome was "brush away, the SR way"