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"
First time I saw her, I wanted more than just to hold her.
I wanted to bend and fold her, so I leant over and I told her.
Got myself a brand new girlfriend
Got myself a brand new girlfriend
So many messages to send, got myself a brand new girlfriend
We want to be, lapsed Catholic, got the contraception, haven't got the knack yet.
We've tried it a variety of ways, I've not slept in about 4 days.
Got myself a brand new girlfriend
Got myself a brand new girlfriend
Phone's ringing all weekend, got myself a brand new girlfriend
So many messages to send, got myself a brand new girlfriend
Phone's ringing all weekend, got myself a brand new girlfriend
So, we went to the cinema, we came home from the cinema
We went through the front door, up the stairs, through the bedroom door, onto the bedroom floor
I've seen her naked twice, I've seen her naked twice!
Brand new girlfriend
Phone's ringing all weekend, got myself a brand new girlfriend
So many messages to send, got myself a brand new girlfriend
Phone's ringing all weekend
Think I'm going round the bend
G-g-g-girlfriend, got myself a brand new girlfriend
And I think that I love her.
I wanted to bend and fold her, so I leant over and I told her.
Got myself a brand new girlfriend
Got myself a brand new girlfriend
So many messages to send, got myself a brand new girlfriend
We want to be, lapsed Catholic, got the contraception, haven't got the knack yet.
We've tried it a variety of ways, I've not slept in about 4 days.
Got myself a brand new girlfriend
Got myself a brand new girlfriend
Phone's ringing all weekend, got myself a brand new girlfriend
So many messages to send, got myself a brand new girlfriend
Phone's ringing all weekend, got myself a brand new girlfriend
So, we went to the cinema, we came home from the cinema
We went through the front door, up the stairs, through the bedroom door, onto the bedroom floor
I've seen her naked twice, I've seen her naked twice!
Brand new girlfriend
Phone's ringing all weekend, got myself a brand new girlfriend
So many messages to send, got myself a brand new girlfriend
Phone's ringing all weekend
Think I'm going round the bend
G-g-g-girlfriend, got myself a brand new girlfriend
And I think that I love her.
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WHo the fuck is Art Brut? Munkeyman is easy enough to figure out, but Art Brut???
Thank you,I asked the same question when I read your first comment...
I hope Art has himself a lifer...
How lovely for you. Your timing couldn't be more perfect. That's what the song is about. Congratulations, Brazil.
"I've seen her naked twice! I've seen her naked twice! " brilliant! it's obvious that the song's about the a new girlfriend, but tha lyrics are incomplete. here are the full lyrics: " First time I saw her, I wanted more than just to hold her. I wanted to bend and fold her, so I leant over and I told her. Got myself a brand new girlfriend x 2 So many messages to send, got myself a brand new girlfriend We wanna be, lapsed Catholic, got the contraception, haven’t got the knack yet. We’ve tried it a variety of ways, I’ve not slept in about 4 days. Got myself a brand new girlfriend x 2 Phone’s ringing all weekend, got myself a brand new girlfriend So many messages to send, got myself a brand new girlfriend Phone’s ringing all weekend, got myself a brand new girlfriend So, we went to the cinema, we came home from the cinema We went through the front door, up the stairs, through the bedroom door, onto the bedroom floor I’ve seen her naked twice, I’ve seen her naked twice! Brand new girlfriend Phone’s ringing all weekend, got myself a brand new girlfriend So many messages to send, got myself a brand new girlfriend Phone’s ringing all weekend Think I’m going round the bend G-g-g-girlfriend, got myself a brand new girlfriend And I think that I love her.
"I've seen her naked..... twice!" Ohhhh that made me laugh the first time I listened to it.
me and my friends have inside jokes about this song.
Ahah i love this band so much. this song is just so...joyous. ahah.
This song is absolutely awesome.
"GO, GUITAR, GO!"
ahaha I love this song!
I love it, best lazy day song ever.
i am obsessed with their accents.