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"
You have to be kidding me
It must be buried three inches deep
and no one is here to help dig it out
And, I am not suprised because they will no doubt take your word
("Everyone loves juicy gossip")
So I guess I'll just sleep it off (On my stomach of course)
And whenI see you next Ill kill you with a smile
It must be buried three inches deep
and no one is here to help dig it out
And, I am not suprised because they will no doubt take your word
("Everyone loves juicy gossip")
So I guess I'll just sleep it off (On my stomach of course)
And whenI see you next Ill kill you with a smile
Lyrics submitted by rustedhope
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anybody have any idea on this one? especially the "kill you with a smile" part. it baffles me.
You have to be kidding me It must be buried three inches deep and no one is here to help dig it out And, I am not suprised because they will no doubt take your word ("Everyone loves juicy gossip")
I think this part is about a friend backstabing him
So I guess I'll just sleep it off (On my stomach of course) And whenI see you next Ill kill you with a smile
and this part is about him just shaking it off and going on with his life
yeah, this song is about a friend back-stabbing him
You have to be kidding me It must be buried three inches deep (a metaphor speaking of the knife in his back) and no one is here to help dig it out And, I am not suprised because they will no doubt take your word (all his friends have sided with his friend who back-stabbed him and they've all left him) everyone loves juicy gossip (speaking of the rumors his friend probably spread about him)
So I guess I'll sleep it off (on my stomach of course) [he's saying he has to sleep on his stomach because the knife is in his back]
And when i see you next time I'll kill you with a smile [he'll just smile at his friend next time he sees him, everyone knows nothing is worse than when you say rude things about someone and that person just smiles at you and treats you nicely]
wtf the ("Everyone loves juicy gossip")
...part doesn't sound like it at all, in fact it's more like "Dream for tomorrow" or something. I might be wrong though, i dunno... also So I guess I'll just sleep it off (On my stomach of course) What's with the part in paranthesis, I can't hear it at all
I think it's about someone betraying him, and he sees them in a whole new light. He sees that they have faith in things that aren't real (faux), and instead of being mad and getting bent over it, he "kills them with kindness." That is one of the things that Jesus taught, and since Nodes was/is a christian band (they considered themselves a christian band on the first 3 albums, but when they signed with victory records, they had to take themselves out of that genre, but if you look at the lyrics from "defined by struggle" (4th album) it is pretty clear that their message was still Christ).
The lyrics that are sung are different than on the booklet. "so I guess, I'll just sleep it off, wait for tomorrow."