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"
Mom and dad, how'd you get so rad, when exactly did you get so hip?
Wearing teenage clothes, you're always coming to my shows
And telling me that I should mellow out
It's absurd, you're singing every word
You're not supposed to like my band
Things I like you don't understand
So please put down that rum and coke, that's no behavior for old folk
Can't we just hang out on holidays?
Dad and mom, what planet are you from
And what convinced you to pack up and leave?
Doing drugs and asking me for hugs, what's the matter with parents today?
Not again, when will it end
Dad's dressing like Mötley Crüe and why is mom's hair dyed bright blue?
They're staying out till two or three and then having sex publicly
I thought the apple fell far from the tree
Mom and dad I think you ought to quit smoking so much pot
And hanging with my friends
Laying round on the couch, with my Misfits records out
Softly bangin' your heads
Maybe it's just a passing phase
What's the matter with my parents these days?
Wearing teenage clothes, you're always coming to my shows
And telling me that I should mellow out
It's absurd, you're singing every word
You're not supposed to like my band
Things I like you don't understand
So please put down that rum and coke, that's no behavior for old folk
Can't we just hang out on holidays?
Dad and mom, what planet are you from
And what convinced you to pack up and leave?
Doing drugs and asking me for hugs, what's the matter with parents today?
Not again, when will it end
Dad's dressing like Mötley Crüe and why is mom's hair dyed bright blue?
They're staying out till two or three and then having sex publicly
I thought the apple fell far from the tree
Mom and dad I think you ought to quit smoking so much pot
And hanging with my friends
Laying round on the couch, with my Misfits records out
Softly bangin' your heads
Maybe it's just a passing phase
What's the matter with my parents these days?
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i love NOFX. i also love this song. it's so funny. sometimes i feel like my parents act like that. not as bad though. he he.
-bye-
yeah mine too but my mom is cool she like when i put nofx on in her truck especially bob she loves bob ha ha ha and well this song is cool funny yet cool!!
i love the song bob!!!!!! your mom sounds cool. she actually likes that? sweet.
haha this reminds me of my parents so bad... they are the ones who got me liking punk rock... my dad likes nofx too, i think he'd love this song, he loved the song they played at warped tour, Idiot Son of an Asshole ...
lol when they played that i tossed my water bottle at the stage & he's like "I guess we got some republicans in the audience today. If you see a republican next to you, pinch 'em" lol they fuckin ruled
yeh, i rekon its about how hard it is too be a parent. its saying how kids look in the eyes of parents and how much trouble we cause
THIS SONG WAS WRITTEN ABOUT MY PARENTS!!!! It was! I swear it must have been!! First time I heard this I laughed for ages and then I played it to my parents....i love this song!! I saw NOFX last month and when they played this song i went insaaaaaaane!!
this song is funny as all hell it remindes me of my mom
awww I want parents like that! Cuz then when I'm playing my Alexisonfire or Nofx at night they wouldnt tell me to turn it down!!!
funniest song i've ever heard, best part is "mom and dad i think you ought to quit smokin so much pot", wish i had parents like that