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"
Excuse me, girl
I know it's a bit embarrassing
But I just noticed some tan lines on your shirt
See, I reckon you're about an eight or a nine
Maybe even nine and a half in four beers' time
That blue Topshop top you've got on is nice
Bit too much fake tan, though, but yeah, you score high
But there's just one little thing that's really, really
Really, really annoying me about you, you see
Yeah, yeah, like I said, you are really fit
But my gosh, don't you just know it?
I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit, but my gosh, don't you know it?
So when I looked at you standing there with your horde
I was waiting in the queue, looking at the board
Wondering whether to have a burger or chips
Or what the shrapnel in my back pocket could afford
When I noticed out the corner of my eye
Looking toward my direction, your eyes locked onto my course
I couldn't concentrate on what I wanted to order
Which lost me my place in the queue I waited for, yeah
I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit, but my gosh, don't you know it?
(Whoa! Leave it out)
Are you smoking crack or something?
Mike, just leave it, just leave it
We cannot have that behaviour in this establishment
It's not worth it, Mike, just leave it
Don't touch me
It's not worth it
Don't touch me, look, I'm alright, don't touch me
For a while there I was thinking, yeah, but, what if?
Picturing myself pulling with bare white hot wit
Snaring you as you were standing there opposite
Whether or not you knew it, I swear you didn't tick
And when that bloke in the white behind us lot queuing
Was clocking onto you, too, yeah, I had to admit
That yeah, yeah, you are fit and yeah, I do want it
But I stop sharking a minute to get chips and drinks
I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit, but my gosh, don't you know it?
Now, I bashed my head hard earlier due to the brew
But I am digressing slightly, so I'll continue
I didn't want to bowl over all geezer and rude
Not rude like good but just rude like uncouth
You girls think you can just flirt and it comes to you
Well let me tell you, see, yes, yes, you are really rude
And rude as in good, I knew this as you stood and queued
But I just did not want to give the satisfaction to you
I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit, but my gosh, don't you know it?
And just as you started to make your big advance
With the milkshake and that little doughnut in hand
I was like, nah, I can't even though you look grand
But you look sharp there smiling hard suggesting and
Gleaming away with your hearty, hearty-looking tan
But I admit the next bit was spanner to my plan
You walked towards my path but just brushed right past
And into the arms of that fucking white shirted man
I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit, but my gosh, don't you know it?
Oh, what do I give a fuck? I've got a girlfriend anyway
We're all a bit drunk, we've had a few, fair play
I got this Stella I bummed from that last cafe
This night's not even begun, yes, yes, oh yay
I did fancy you a bit, though, yeah, I must say
I would rather I hadn't mugged myself on display
But this is just another case of female stopping play
In an otherwise total result of a holiday
I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit, but my gosh, don't you know it?
You're fit but you know it
But you know it
You're fit but you know it
I think I'm going to fall over
I think I'm going to fall o-
Fucking hell
I know it's a bit embarrassing
But I just noticed some tan lines on your shirt
See, I reckon you're about an eight or a nine
Maybe even nine and a half in four beers' time
That blue Topshop top you've got on is nice
Bit too much fake tan, though, but yeah, you score high
But there's just one little thing that's really, really
Really, really annoying me about you, you see
Yeah, yeah, like I said, you are really fit
But my gosh, don't you just know it?
I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit, but my gosh, don't you know it?
So when I looked at you standing there with your horde
I was waiting in the queue, looking at the board
Wondering whether to have a burger or chips
Or what the shrapnel in my back pocket could afford
When I noticed out the corner of my eye
Looking toward my direction, your eyes locked onto my course
I couldn't concentrate on what I wanted to order
Which lost me my place in the queue I waited for, yeah
I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit, but my gosh, don't you know it?
(Whoa! Leave it out)
Are you smoking crack or something?
Mike, just leave it, just leave it
We cannot have that behaviour in this establishment
It's not worth it, Mike, just leave it
Don't touch me
It's not worth it
Don't touch me, look, I'm alright, don't touch me
For a while there I was thinking, yeah, but, what if?
Picturing myself pulling with bare white hot wit
Snaring you as you were standing there opposite
Whether or not you knew it, I swear you didn't tick
And when that bloke in the white behind us lot queuing
Was clocking onto you, too, yeah, I had to admit
That yeah, yeah, you are fit and yeah, I do want it
But I stop sharking a minute to get chips and drinks
I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit, but my gosh, don't you know it?
Now, I bashed my head hard earlier due to the brew
But I am digressing slightly, so I'll continue
I didn't want to bowl over all geezer and rude
Not rude like good but just rude like uncouth
You girls think you can just flirt and it comes to you
Well let me tell you, see, yes, yes, you are really rude
And rude as in good, I knew this as you stood and queued
But I just did not want to give the satisfaction to you
I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit, but my gosh, don't you know it?
And just as you started to make your big advance
With the milkshake and that little doughnut in hand
I was like, nah, I can't even though you look grand
But you look sharp there smiling hard suggesting and
Gleaming away with your hearty, hearty-looking tan
But I admit the next bit was spanner to my plan
You walked towards my path but just brushed right past
And into the arms of that fucking white shirted man
I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit, but my gosh, don't you know it?
Oh, what do I give a fuck? I've got a girlfriend anyway
We're all a bit drunk, we've had a few, fair play
I got this Stella I bummed from that last cafe
This night's not even begun, yes, yes, oh yay
I did fancy you a bit, though, yeah, I must say
I would rather I hadn't mugged myself on display
But this is just another case of female stopping play
In an otherwise total result of a holiday
I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit, but my gosh, don't you know it?
You're fit but you know it
But you know it
You're fit but you know it
I think I'm going to fall over
I think I'm going to fall o-
Fucking hell
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The song means that the girl is fit and she knows it
lol one of my best mates says this is his song to me! its always reminds him of me lol its such a fun song too!
Great song to be the lead single of the forthcoming album. Quite self-explanitory, but thoroughly enjoyable. Does anyone have the unedited version of this song on mp3?
I thought that it was an intentionally self-depricating song - I think from his account it's pretty clear that she has no interest in him at all and he's misinterpreting things that she does as interest in him. The thing is, reading all these comments, I am just wondering if he (as in the author of the song) intended that. I thought from these bits:<br /> <br /> Oi just as you started to make your big advance<br /> With the milkshake and that little dohnut in hand<br /> I was like nah, i cant even, no you look grand<br /> <br /> But i admit the next bit was spanners to my plan<br /> You walked toward my path but just brushed right past<br /> And into the arms of that ****ing white shirted man<br /> <br /> The point was that he was interpreting her as being interested and actually she wasn't at all and the whole thing was going on in his head - I thought that was sort of that that would be everyone's understanding of the song.<br /> <br /> Am I the only one who sees it like that?!<br />
theres a remix thats betta then this, on channel U if youve got it
really cool song, funi, and true, ive experianced that b4, like the same situation! well done
Can't stand girls who know they're fit, no bigger turn off. Mike hit the nail on the head with this track
the thing that got to me about it was the vaguely "Parklife" feel to the song, oh and the fantastic lyrics.
Story of my life...
gr8 song n so true in relation 2 a load of ppl at my skool (wots even worse r the ppl hu rnt fit/pretty but think they r. total losers!) not a huge fan of mike but this song is ace!
what does he mean by shrapnel? does it mean cash? and is sharkin like going after a girl? and what does spanners mean ("the next bit was spanners to my plan") and what is it to mug onesself? i'm not british, so i dont know any of this terms, could somebody shed some light on them for me?
yer bro shrapnel is change like a few quid sharikin is trying to pull girls too spanners means a bit nutty to mug oneself is to lie to yourself
shrapnel, is small debris that is released after a bomb explodes, so he means his change here, I think he means it in a sense that its fairly useless as he doesnt have much, he may as well have shrapnel.<br /> <br /> you got sharkin right, its about cruising for girls, trying to spy on a hottie etc<br /> <br /> spanners comes from the phrase 'throwing a spanner in the works' which would stop a machine dead, it means in today's language something which stops a plan from being executed properly, an obstacle or similar.<br /> <br /> mugging oneself is a phrase that mike skinner uses quite often. mugging someone or something, apart from to hold them up in the street, is to insult someone or do another thing which makes them look a bit stupid, when he says 'dont mug yourself' he means dont be a fool.