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"
Said the man
Who feel him a fool
For he be the wiseman
For the man
Who don't think he's a fool he
Control his destiny
But he's too cool for himself
For himself
For himself
All I need
Is something to keep me movin' on
In a world
Where violence reigns
And everybody seems so strange to me
Said the man
Who feel him a fool
For he be the wise man
For the man
Who don't feel him a fool he
Control his destiny
Yeah he's too cool for himself
For himself
For himself
Oh
This weapon of destruction
Swallows peoples suffering
And no confusion
You ain't winnin' if your losin'
We don't need
Said the man
Who feel him a fool he
For he be the wiseman
For the man
Who don't think he's a fool he
Control his destiny
But he's too cool for himself
For himself
For himself
Oh
Who feel him a fool
For he be the wiseman
For the man
Who don't think he's a fool he
Control his destiny
But he's too cool for himself
For himself
For himself
All I need
Is something to keep me movin' on
In a world
Where violence reigns
And everybody seems so strange to me
Said the man
Who feel him a fool
For he be the wise man
For the man
Who don't feel him a fool he
Control his destiny
Yeah he's too cool for himself
For himself
For himself
Oh
This weapon of destruction
Swallows peoples suffering
And no confusion
You ain't winnin' if your losin'
We don't need
Said the man
Who feel him a fool he
For he be the wiseman
For the man
Who don't think he's a fool he
Control his destiny
But he's too cool for himself
For himself
For himself
Oh
Lyrics submitted by mellowdood
Wiseman Lyrics as written by Miles Doughty Kyle Alexander Mcdonald
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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I think the meaning of this song is that the man that thinks hes a fool is wiser than a man who doesn't. The real fool is the one who thinks he controls is destiny. By thinking he is in control he doesn't practice any humility in his life and relies only upon himself. The man that knows he doesn't have all the answers to life is the much wiser person. Knowledge is really knowing that you don't know!!!!!! If you believe you have all the answers like the man who doesn't feel hes a fool you have a big ego and it makes you to cool for yourself. You are unable to admit your mistakes as well as admit you don't know everything. Favorite slightly stoopid song!!!!!!
@otis2010 I agree with you, your probably the most accurate i just want to add the man who thinks he is the fool has done things in life to make him feel that way. But hes learned from it and gained wisdon from it therefore he's the Wiseman even though he doesn't feel that way because of the mistakes he's done and he does know the answers unlike the man who doesn't feel like he's a fool cause he hasn't done things in life to make him feel that way. He hasn't made mistakes in his life continues to move forward without set backs so he thinks he's the Wiseman because of success but sometimes that's not always the case it's all about the hardships you go through in life that makes you wise.
i always took it as that the man who might think he's a fool is the wiseman, even though he may not know it. and the one who is full of himself is just kind of hopeless in that he doesnt realize that he isnt the wiseman he thinks he is. and the one singing about this is just observing this ignorance and violence and such..
This song to me is saying to the man who feels out of place and dislikes these times of craziness in society, destruction, hate and violence. That the one who who will stand on his own and not follow others is the wise man. Why isn't anyone posting or adding new songs to SS? They are phenominal.
This song to me is saying to the man who feels out of place and dislikes these times of craziness in society, destruction, hate and violence. That the one who who will stand on his own and not follow others is the wise man. Why isn't anyone posting or adding new songs to SS? They are phenominal.
yeah its about feeling out of place, but not for the "wise man"... The wise man is a guy who is arrogant and thinks he is a lot cooler than he really is, and the singer is feeling out of place because he is the only one who sees reality.
this song is sayin that violence is to prominent in society, and people look at it as a cool thing, but the man who disagrees with violence is the wiseman
I couldnt agree more with you kiersten Ohman. You are right.
This is the first song I've heard from Slightly Stoopid a few years ago and i have been hooked ever since...and kiersten ohman is right about the meaning of this song
I feel that in this song, the singer is the only one who sees the true arrogance in the wiseman. Although, others look up to him and follow him, the wiseman is not truely wise and possibly represents something larger like the government or just a leader in general that does not see things clearly. "You aint winnin if you loosin"
thanks guys. i think im going to sing a cover for it soon... first time performer here. one part that confuses me is 'he control his destiny'. but i think it could mean something that i do agree with... the man who thinks so much of himself, he can make things happen the way he wants, but that may not be the most wise choice. dont really know, just a thought.