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"
Happy birthday, you're halfway to sixty
You have no land of your own
A job you despise
And a lover that's mean
And you started noticing a disturbing thing
Birds eating other birds just beyond the screen
So you packed up your things and hopped on the freeway headed east
And you drove for eight days aimlessly
Telling yourself to be humble
Singing to yourself to be free
Being full aware that it's a middle aged crisis type thing
And you drove 'til you saw a sign for a town called Luckey
Spelled L-you-see-K-E-why
Where the sugar towers rise til the line and meet the streets
Checked into a motel, slept on cardboard sheets
I covered the bloodstained mattress underneath
Went to the local bar and you got yourself a drink
Telling yourself to be humble
Singing to yourself to be free
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
It was the most ragtag group you had ever seen
A slender man with a mustache, a bow tie and nothing between
Looking like a preacher son who had given in the devil-worshipping scene
He was a real looker and he bought you a drink
And you proceeded to tell him everything
And you were getting a bit hysterical it seemed
You laughed like a carburetor then you screamed
Oh the doubt and the disbelief
Telling yourself to be humble
Singing to yourself to be free
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
And he told you how he came to be
As an altar boy by his father's knees
And how he came to lose his faith
There was no touching but advances were made
And his father's hand in slow motion it was approaching him
And the doubt and disbelief crept over his young heart like the black ocean
A storm cloud, a hurricane if you will
A storm cloud, a hurricane
Telling yourself to be humble
Singing to yourself to be free
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
Go home lady, find yourself happy
It's just a middle aged crisis type thing
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
You have no land of your own
A job you despise
And a lover that's mean
And you started noticing a disturbing thing
Birds eating other birds just beyond the screen
So you packed up your things and hopped on the freeway headed east
And you drove for eight days aimlessly
Telling yourself to be humble
Singing to yourself to be free
Being full aware that it's a middle aged crisis type thing
And you drove 'til you saw a sign for a town called Luckey
Spelled L-you-see-K-E-why
Where the sugar towers rise til the line and meet the streets
Checked into a motel, slept on cardboard sheets
I covered the bloodstained mattress underneath
Went to the local bar and you got yourself a drink
Telling yourself to be humble
Singing to yourself to be free
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
It was the most ragtag group you had ever seen
A slender man with a mustache, a bow tie and nothing between
Looking like a preacher son who had given in the devil-worshipping scene
He was a real looker and he bought you a drink
And you proceeded to tell him everything
And you were getting a bit hysterical it seemed
You laughed like a carburetor then you screamed
Oh the doubt and the disbelief
Telling yourself to be humble
Singing to yourself to be free
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
And he told you how he came to be
As an altar boy by his father's knees
And how he came to lose his faith
There was no touching but advances were made
And his father's hand in slow motion it was approaching him
And the doubt and disbelief crept over his young heart like the black ocean
A storm cloud, a hurricane if you will
A storm cloud, a hurricane
Telling yourself to be humble
Singing to yourself to be free
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
Go home lady, find yourself happy
It's just a middle aged crisis type thing
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
It's a middle aged crisis type thing
Lyrics submitted by myslumberingheart
A Town Called Luckey Lyrics as written by Jenny Diane Lewis Blake Sennett
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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its self explanitory. its a middle ages type crisis thing.
Way different than traditional RK.
This song is freaking weird.
This song is freaking weird.
This song is freaking weird.
this song is incredible, it's simply overwhelming. Possibly why I love Rilo Kiley as much as I do, because they have so many styles, techniques, and sounds that make them sound so different yet AMAZING each and every time. I'm not sure about the meaning of this song in its entirety, but I noticed a motif of shock almost. In the beginning of the song, the person leaves her house, she is unsatissfied with her life (later, you will see why I assumed the person to be female). At Luckey, the woman meets a preacher (male) and all of a sudden she can't believe she's here telling a random stranger her whole life story. Later, the preacher becomes shocked that he makes advances towards the woman. Anyone feel like expanding and getting a whole discussion started?
... the last part sounds like a kid getting molested. Creepy much.
And also, "A splendid man with a moustache on both sides, nothing in-between " Sounds like Blake's moustache, no?
... the last part sounds like a kid getting molested. Creepy much.
And also, "A splendid man with a moustache on both sides, nothing in-between " Sounds like Blake's moustache, no?
Blake would never do such a thing! Nooooooo!
Wow, um...
Rilo Kiley WEIRD OUT!
This song is SO unexpected of them.
..But Im kind of in love with it !!