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"
Hey said the devil
When I met her at the roundabout
She's got powers
Magnetic devours you of everything you've got
She's a golden retriever
Retrieves your oldest coin
Leads you blindly down every dark alley
Then she'll bleed you dry
Stop! Said the puppy
When I met him at the zebra cross
She said "You need protection
From every direction
But she'll get you anyhow"
She's a golden retriever
Retrieves your oldest coin
Leads you blindly down every dark alley
Then she'll bleed you dry
She's a golden retriever
She's a golden retriever
Golden retriever
Golden retriever
Golden retriever
Golden retriever
Golden retriever
Golden retriever
Golden retriever
Golden retriever
When I met her at the roundabout
She's got powers
Magnetic devours you of everything you've got
She's a golden retriever
Retrieves your oldest coin
Leads you blindly down every dark alley
Then she'll bleed you dry
Stop! Said the puppy
When I met him at the zebra cross
She said "You need protection
From every direction
But she'll get you anyhow"
She's a golden retriever
Retrieves your oldest coin
Leads you blindly down every dark alley
Then she'll bleed you dry
She's a golden retriever
She's a golden retriever
Golden retriever
Golden retriever
Golden retriever
Golden retriever
Golden retriever
Golden retriever
Golden retriever
Golden retriever
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About a woman who sleeps around.
I sleeps around bit is probably true, but I believes it more about a woman who is a gold digger.
supposedly its bout bush and blair, the phantom power is the most political album yet by the furries, it refers to blair being led asrty and going to war cause of a relationship with the usa. also kind of reep wat u sow idea
i've never heard anyone pronounce "zebra" that way
really? That's how I pronounce it...
Well, not all of us are silly and British as you may potentially be.
i am british but not silly...except when listening to SFA.
great line is the british translation of meeting the devil not at the crossroads but at the ... zebra crossing (pedestrian road crossing).
great guitar break live.
This is actually about 2 puppies that Gruff Rhys and his girlfriend had at the time... Nice try though ;)
Yeah I'm sure the song really is that straightforwardly literal as that, and with no subtext whatsoever.
I think it's about prostitution. "When I met her at the roundabout" - stopping on the road to pick her up "Retrieves your oldest coin" - it's said prostitution is the oldest trade "Leads you blindly down every dark alley" - well, self explanatory "You need protection from every direction" - again, self explanatory