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"
Everybody wants to be a showman
Yeah they all got another one
Everybody thinks they got a genius
Everybody got me on the run
Sometimes I think they come here
Just so you can say that you can
And I can't get alone in my bathroom
I need to give myself a hand
Ya'll c-c-c-creepin'
Creepin' underneath my skin
Fuck you and your flashbulbs
Snappin' my picture again
You drank all my whiskey
You stole all my smoke
And you're crowded all around me
Like I got nowhere to go
Eyes are gonna roll back
I'm here to kill time
For you to go I'ma gon' spill
It ain't yo fast train
I'll be the king running near the wheel
I ain't looking to make no deals here no
You keep sticking to me like a prickly porcupine
You're getting your information from the grocery checkout line
Are you through confessing of your little girl obsession
'Cause I was only messing and I had a little time
Eyes are gonna roll back
I'm here to kill time
For you to go I'ma gon' spill
It ain't yo fast train
I'll be the king running near the wheel
I ain't looking to make no deals here no
Eyes are gonna roll back
I'm here to kill time
For you to go I'm a gon' spill
It ain't yo fast train
I'll be the king running near the wheel
I ain't looking to make no deals here no
Eyes are gonna roll back
I'm here to kill time
For you to go I'ma gon' spill
It ain't yo fast train
I'll be the king running near the wheel
I ain't looking to make no deals here no
Yeah they all got another one
Everybody thinks they got a genius
Everybody got me on the run
Sometimes I think they come here
Just so you can say that you can
And I can't get alone in my bathroom
I need to give myself a hand
Ya'll c-c-c-creepin'
Creepin' underneath my skin
Fuck you and your flashbulbs
Snappin' my picture again
You drank all my whiskey
You stole all my smoke
And you're crowded all around me
Like I got nowhere to go
Eyes are gonna roll back
I'm here to kill time
For you to go I'ma gon' spill
It ain't yo fast train
I'll be the king running near the wheel
I ain't looking to make no deals here no
You keep sticking to me like a prickly porcupine
You're getting your information from the grocery checkout line
Are you through confessing of your little girl obsession
'Cause I was only messing and I had a little time
Eyes are gonna roll back
I'm here to kill time
For you to go I'ma gon' spill
It ain't yo fast train
I'll be the king running near the wheel
I ain't looking to make no deals here no
Eyes are gonna roll back
I'm here to kill time
For you to go I'm a gon' spill
It ain't yo fast train
I'll be the king running near the wheel
I ain't looking to make no deals here no
Eyes are gonna roll back
I'm here to kill time
For you to go I'ma gon' spill
It ain't yo fast train
I'll be the king running near the wheel
I ain't looking to make no deals here no
Lyrics submitted by laextasis, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Genius Lyrics as written by Ivan Nathan Followill Angelo T. Petraglia
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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You think you're the shit but you're not. You're buggin the hell out of me and crampin' my style. I'm runnin' the show here, so I'll call the shots, not you. You people are takin this shit too far when it's way too simple.
Thats this song in a nutshell.....
Yep
genius to me is a song about the 'the' bands and the paparazzi and the screaming fans and then right at the end 'i was only messing cause i had a little time' sums up how much effort they think they put into there music
'Fuck you and your flashbulbs'. Niiiiice!!!! I'm not even famous and I fuckin hate paparazzi. Song meaning is pretty obvious I think. Great tune!!!
i love the line "y'all cuh cuh cuh creepin" and the lines "you keep stickin to me like a prickly porcupine you're gettin your imformation from the grocery check line" crack me up everytime. LOL.
genius to me is a song about the 'the' bands and the paparazzi and the screaming fans and then right at the end 'i was only messing cause i had a little time' sums up how much effort they think they put into there music
This is my favorite Kings of Leon song. It's a pretty simple message I think, but for a while I didn't understand the line "you're gettin' your information from the grocery check-out line". Now I realize he's referring to people reading the tabloids on the racks when they're waiting in the check-out line. Obviously this isn't literal (or at least I don't think they were that popular during their 1st album).
I love this song so much. Whenever I'm mad I throw it on. It's good like that.
Also on a more interesting side-note: I think the "I can't get alone in my bathroom, I need to give myself a hand" lyric is referencing him trying to masturbate but being unable to due to certain assholes bugging him while he's in there. This thought only occurred to me when I watched on YouTube "Genius" live in Britain, when he made a lude gesture while singing that lyric. EXCELLENT!
Ive always thought that too bout the give myself a hand part!
Well, I would say that its about their commercialization because after this CD they had to revamp their image so it was more pleasing to the eyes and for more viewers... but a lot of this has to do with, that, Everybody wants to dow hat they want to do, and they want to do what everybody else wants to do. And that is to be popular and gain money and fame...
spell 'genius' right...god damn.
youtube.com/watch 0:58 :]
With similar sentiments as walleye.....I wish I could edit the title so it actually says GENIUS!!!
I love the little 'c'mon' Caleb says right at the start of the track - listen out for it!