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 go down to the ocean
I take a walk upon your shores
I dig up a big old hairy clam
and then take out the pearl
Because it's a metaphor
I marinate your flank steak
I'll bread your jumbo shrimp
Take your little brother to the zoo
and I'll marinate your flank steak
Because it's a metaphor for fucking (x2)
I'll be the lounge band on your cruise ship
I'll fuck you with my dick
I'll put my magic wand inside your car
Then I'll marinate your flank steak
Because it's a metaphor for flank steak (x2)
Flank steak is delicious
wish I was eating it right now
and every time that I see one
wanna tittyfuck the flank steak
Because it's a metaphor for fucking flank steak (x2)
Love is such a mystery...
I take a walk upon your shores
I dig up a big old hairy clam
and then take out the pearl
Because it's a metaphor
I marinate your flank steak
I'll bread your jumbo shrimp
Take your little brother to the zoo
and I'll marinate your flank steak
Because it's a metaphor for fucking (x2)
I'll be the lounge band on your cruise ship
I'll fuck you with my dick
I'll put my magic wand inside your car
Then I'll marinate your flank steak
Because it's a metaphor for flank steak (x2)
Flank steak is delicious
wish I was eating it right now
and every time that I see one
wanna tittyfuck the flank steak
Because it's a metaphor for fucking flank steak (x2)
Love is such a mystery...
Lyrics submitted by Relapser
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hahahaha. my only question is, where are the dudes in this?
Who is singing in this?
that's totally Andy singing. bahaha, it sounds just like his jack johnson impersonation on snl for the fake JJ Casuals commercial.
"JJ Casuals - the shoes that look like feet" ::strums::
Jack Johnson even put it on his website. hilarious.