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 blackout!
Don't you put words in my mouth
Don't try to shut me up
I'm not about plastic skin
I gotta get out, gotta get out, in
What about those things you said to me
What about the time we've wasted
Everyday's just like the one before
Everytime I see your face
I blackout
You know I gotta get in
Just let me in
You know I gotta get in
But, I gotta know now, where do I fit in
I blackout'
Don't you tell me what to think
You'll never know how I should feel
I see through plastic skin,
I gotta get out gotta get out, in
What about the 5 o'clock news
What about the Sunday paper
Every day's just like the one before
Everytime I turn the page'..
I blackout
You know I gotta get in
Just let me in
You know I gotta get in
But, I gotta know now, where do I fit in
I blackout'
I can't breathe '
My heart is freezing
While we pray
My soul is packing its bags'. and leaving
Blackout!! What about those things you said to me'
I wanna know now where do I fit in'
Don't you put words in my mouth
Don't try to shut me up
I'm not about plastic skin
I gotta get out, gotta get out, in
What about those things you said to me
What about the time we've wasted
Everyday's just like the one before
Everytime I see your face
I blackout
You know I gotta get in
Just let me in
You know I gotta get in
But, I gotta know now, where do I fit in
I blackout'
Don't you tell me what to think
You'll never know how I should feel
I see through plastic skin,
I gotta get out gotta get out, in
What about the 5 o'clock news
What about the Sunday paper
Every day's just like the one before
Everytime I turn the page'..
I blackout
You know I gotta get in
Just let me in
You know I gotta get in
But, I gotta know now, where do I fit in
I blackout'
I can't breathe '
My heart is freezing
While we pray
My soul is packing its bags'. and leaving
Blackout!! What about those things you said to me'
I wanna know now where do I fit in'
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this song is about today and society. how so many people out there that choose to be jsut that a little bit out there are completely outkast, completely fuked around. the thing is hed pe speak the truth in there third album blackout. and this title track speaks the truth, jahrad has changed and he is now more into looking at the world and seeing things as they are. punks
this is the fourth album. i don't know about you, but this song sounds like it's discussing people who are extremely affected by the media, so they get reffered to as "plastic faces". in more particularly, this song is about a guy who likes a media affected girl who he finally got along with, but now he notices how plastic she is. the video clip is a bit disappointing.
i always thought this song was about escaping from the problems in the world. 'blackout' and dont worry
Dude I absolutly love this song! When I first heard of Hed (p.e.) i thought that they might not sound as good as i thought... but they happen to be my current favoritest rap-rock even right now!
i think it means like people being intensely influenced by the media and celabs. like the don't tell me what to think.
I think it's about being around loser people every day and not going anywhere. You get around these talentless fucks and just blackout for the rest of your time with them, not committing any memory to the waste of time. It's about wanting something more and to contribute.