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"
Don't ever take away from me my pornography
We obviously don't agree on what's obscene
I have the right to choose what I
Want to see and read
Don't try to take away from me
My right to privacy what I
Do is no one's business but me
So stay in your missionary position
I hope that you get bored to death
There's no way I'm going through life
Having vanilla sex
The government's trying to get in
Your bedroom you better lock your
Door and close your shades because
There could be someone watching you today
Why do you try to make things illegal
Why do we have to be twenty one
Are you afraid that people are having
Too much fun
Why do you care what I do in my bedroom
Why do you want to know how I screw
It seems to me you've got nothing better
To do.
We obviously don't agree on what's obscene
I have the right to choose what I
Want to see and read
Don't try to take away from me
My right to privacy what I
Do is no one's business but me
So stay in your missionary position
I hope that you get bored to death
There's no way I'm going through life
Having vanilla sex
The government's trying to get in
Your bedroom you better lock your
Door and close your shades because
There could be someone watching you today
Why do you try to make things illegal
Why do we have to be twenty one
Are you afraid that people are having
Too much fun
Why do you care what I do in my bedroom
Why do you want to know how I screw
It seems to me you've got nothing better
To do.
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This is a cover of a NOFX song, available on the NOFX/Rancid split ep.
this song is about sensorship from the government, trying to sensor sex which for some reasons everyones obsessed with sensoring in america.
anyway this is one of the best songs from the nofx/rancid split cd
i wonder, is there such a thing as strawberry sex and chocoalte sex as well?
well whatever, the rancid cover is so much better than nofx's original.
"vanilla" as in plain
I like rancid better than NOFX too. the cover of bob is wicked good. and the NOFX cover of radio sucked. my opinion anyways.
Nice cover including the neat Dope Sick Girl riff. Mike's voice wasn't that good yet on S&M airlines and Lars is a great singer, therefore it's one of the very few cover songs I like more than the original.