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"
Speak
Speaking for myself
Pretend I'm someone else
I never felt the same
Well this time
Breathe
I'm breathing up the air
It's burning up my lungs
It's burning through my hair
I never felt
Hey kids
What are you rocking for?
Hey kids
What are you rocking for?
Stick
A finger through the sky
I'm blowing up the sun
The earth is going to die
I might die too
And all the things I love
And all the things I need
I never quite receive
And it's still
Hey kids
What are you rocking for?
Hey kids
What are you rocking for?
And I
Am standing in the rain
I'm laughing at myself
Today, today, today
And I
Am breaking from the strain
I'm laughing at myself
Today, today, today
And I
Never needed more
Than all of your bodies
Don't you know
I never needed more
Than all of your love
It's only been a game
Palpitation of the heart
I never wanted more
So maybe we could play
It's only been a game
The bleeding of the heart
You let your missiles fire
And we all start to run
Hey kids
What are you rocking for?
Feel it for the first time
Hey kids
What are you rocking for?
Feel it for the first time
Hey kids
What are you rocking for?
Feel it for the first time
Hey kids
What are you rocking for?
Feel it for the first time
What are you rocking for?
Speaking for myself
Pretend I'm someone else
I never felt the same
Well this time
Breathe
I'm breathing up the air
It's burning up my lungs
It's burning through my hair
I never felt
Hey kids
What are you rocking for?
Hey kids
What are you rocking for?
Stick
A finger through the sky
I'm blowing up the sun
The earth is going to die
I might die too
And all the things I love
And all the things I need
I never quite receive
And it's still
Hey kids
What are you rocking for?
Hey kids
What are you rocking for?
And I
Am standing in the rain
I'm laughing at myself
Today, today, today
And I
Am breaking from the strain
I'm laughing at myself
Today, today, today
And I
Never needed more
Than all of your bodies
Don't you know
I never needed more
Than all of your love
It's only been a game
Palpitation of the heart
I never wanted more
So maybe we could play
It's only been a game
The bleeding of the heart
You let your missiles fire
And we all start to run
Hey kids
What are you rocking for?
Feel it for the first time
Hey kids
What are you rocking for?
Feel it for the first time
Hey kids
What are you rocking for?
Feel it for the first time
Hey kids
What are you rocking for?
Feel it for the first time
What are you rocking for?
Lyrics submitted by deranged_one_13
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I have NO IDEA what this song is about but it damn well has an awesome beat!
i agree with the_howee 100%
It's so oddly "bright" compared to most of his other songs, it's so cartoony, almost. Especially the today, today, today, with the little voice behind him. It's almost silly, makes me grin. No clue, maybe it's a tongue in cheek cmmet on how adults act childish. no clue, none at all.
I slept on it. he's making a mock-kiddie sing along, almost, and he's speaking to the next generation. "Don't you know I never needed more Than all of your love" it sounds almost like a robbing the cradle kind of thing. No. Maybe not. Maybe he wants the kids to appreciate his music. heheh. Well, he's saying something. Maybe it's don't make the same mistakes i've done, be good, go to school, do things right.
isn't that Tegan Quin singing in the background? Sounds so much like here...but yeah I agree that I feel this is a mock-kiddie song. I think its also poking fun at blind optimism.
yes that most certainly IS tegan!
personally, i think the song is just poking fun at the way modern rock music is always so gloomy and depressing... or at least a lot of genres, like grunge, and emo.
Even look at all the really lame Avril Lavigne pop shit you see these days. They are always whining about something pointless!
It's almost like we just want to be pissed off about ANYTHING sometimes... that we forget to just take it easy, laugh at ourselves every now and again!... You know, HAVE FUN!
So, "hey kids, what are YOU rocking for!!?????"