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"
I'm from the city of love
We don't feel loved
So closed, shut down
I met a broken cliff
Heartbroke feeling
So close, shut down
I don't want this to change
It's nice to breathe in
So closed, shut down
Big guns are comin' out
Big guns are comin' out
Big guns, big guns
Don't worry one of us
Children breathe in
So closed, shut down
Kids of America
Seeming to believe in
So closed, shut down
Damn you America
Bloody feeling
Go shut down
I'm from the city of love
We all don't feel loved
So closed, shut down
I don't want this to change
Tired of being loved
So go shut down
Big guns are coming out
(Damn you America)
Big guns are coming out
(I'm from the city of love)
Big guns are coming out
Big guns, big guns
We don't feel loved
So closed, shut down
I met a broken cliff
Heartbroke feeling
So close, shut down
I don't want this to change
It's nice to breathe in
So closed, shut down
Big guns are comin' out
Big guns are comin' out
Big guns, big guns
Don't worry one of us
Children breathe in
So closed, shut down
Kids of America
Seeming to believe in
So closed, shut down
Damn you America
Bloody feeling
Go shut down
I'm from the city of love
We all don't feel loved
So closed, shut down
I don't want this to change
Tired of being loved
So go shut down
Big guns are coming out
(Damn you America)
Big guns are coming out
(I'm from the city of love)
Big guns are coming out
Big guns, big guns
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this is my best guess at what the lyrics sound like to me:
your smile's like a cigarette hooked on a feeling so throw yourself down
your smile is a broken cliff and your heart's full of cement so throw yourself down
i don't want this chance (?) minus the breathing (?) so throw yourself down
the big guns are coming out the big guns are coming out the big guns are coming out the big guns, the big guns, the big guns
i don't want to live children are freezing so throw yourself down
??? leave me for believing so throw yourself down
??? blood and the bleeding so throw yourself down
the big guns are coming out the big guns are coming out the big guns are coming out the big guns, the big guns, the big guns
your smile's like a cigarette it relies on this feeling so throw yourself down
but i can't throw this chance mine is this healing so throw yourself down
the big guns are coming out the big guns are coming out the big guns are coming out the big guns, the big guns
i have no idea.. and i wish i did.
These lyrics are nowhere close to the actual ones, which, is sort of easy to hear if you listen closely to the inflection of kevin drew's voice on the EP recording..
These lyrics are nowhere close to the actual ones, which, is sort of easy to hear if you listen closely to the inflection of kevin drew's voice on the EP recording..
Well, uh... thanks for giving us the lyrics to "All My Friends," versatilestyle87... but I think the song we were talking about here was Canada vs. America.
this song is bad ass i want to visit canada
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"your ex-lover is not dead "
Do I smell a stars reference? :)
this song.. at 23 seconds...that is the sound of everything perfect...love.
I don't know why Kevin Drew would take any shots at Amy Millan or Stars with the "Your ex-lover is not dead..." part, considering both are fronting major label success now. I know at the Indie Awards in Toronto last month a lot of bands were badmouthing Kevin and BSS for being some elitist pricks...that including one of the member of Stars.
He's not taking a shot at Amy Millan. The reference is actually positive. Kevin loves his bandmates and friends. Simple as that.
I don't know why Kevin Drew would take any shots at Amy Millan or Stars with the "Your ex-lover is not dead..." part, considering both are fronting major label success now. I know at the Indie Awards in Toronto last month a lot of bands were badmouthing Kevin and BSS for being some elitist pricks...that including one of the member of Stars.