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"
The sky is falling
Human race that we run
Has left me crawling
Staring straight at the sun
Oh, in a moment I notice
Every dog has his day
I paid attention
Cost me so much to hate
For so long
I saw only wrong
But now to remind
It's a waste of time
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
I wanted something
Nothing blank I don't know
It's all deflecting
Stones are easy to throw
Oh, in a moment I've noticed
Hours, days left behind
Of wasted, useless
Selfless, none of a kind
For so long
I saw only wrong
But now to remind
Not to go back to the low
That has drained my life so low
That has drained my life so low
That has drained my life so low
That has drained my
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Krdl, KRDL 109
We spoil music for everyone
Shut up, you little brat
Krdl, the KRDL
Elastic Ass with ya here in Chino Hills, the last frontier
That's where we're at
Uh, word, KOOL
You know what it spells and you know how we do
Live and direct coming at you from the middle of nowhere
The centre of everywhere
Ya gotta check this band, Queens Of The Stone Age
If you not knowin' them, here I'm letting ya know
Giving it my stamp of approval, you know what I'm saying?
So pick this up
And we're gonna spoil the music for ya
This is, um Millionare
Queens of the Stone Age
Um, a song about something they'll never be
All death metal, all the time (all the time)
Human race that we run
Has left me crawling
Staring straight at the sun
Oh, in a moment I notice
Every dog has his day
I paid attention
Cost me so much to hate
For so long
I saw only wrong
But now to remind
It's a waste of time
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
I wanted something
Nothing blank I don't know
It's all deflecting
Stones are easy to throw
Oh, in a moment I've noticed
Hours, days left behind
Of wasted, useless
Selfless, none of a kind
For so long
I saw only wrong
But now to remind
Not to go back to the low
That has drained my life so low
That has drained my life so low
That has drained my life so low
That has drained my
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Close your eyes and see the skies are falling
Krdl, KRDL 109
We spoil music for everyone
Shut up, you little brat
Krdl, the KRDL
Elastic Ass with ya here in Chino Hills, the last frontier
That's where we're at
Uh, word, KOOL
You know what it spells and you know how we do
Live and direct coming at you from the middle of nowhere
The centre of everywhere
Ya gotta check this band, Queens Of The Stone Age
If you not knowin' them, here I'm letting ya know
Giving it my stamp of approval, you know what I'm saying?
So pick this up
And we're gonna spoil the music for ya
This is, um Millionare
Queens of the Stone Age
Um, a song about something they'll never be
All death metal, all the time (all the time)
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hmm... can i safely say that everyone here hates guevaralives? ok, just wanted to clear that one up (teenybopper dicks?! get the fuck out dude, we know who the queens of the stone age are, you dont need to lecture us). also, grohl isnt the best drummer in the world, but he is damn good and he does have a real intensity to his drumming that a lot of other drummers dont have. i dont think it really matters what teen people says about whether its his band or not. we all know its not "his" band. what i can say though is that his drumming contributed a lot to the album. about the meaning of this song, i think its just about a wasted life, like spending years of your life partying and screwing off, and then having to suffer the consequences. this is the point when hes realizing how much hes screwed up. i guess in a way im also just kind of reiterating what moe2000 said in that its just about him living for himself and now the shit is hitting the fan.