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"
My name is Malcolm McLaren
I have brought you many things in my time
But the most successful of all
Was an invention of mine they called punk rock
Anarchy! Anarchy!
Ah, let me start from the beginning
Find just out four kids
Make sure they hate each other
Make sure they can't play
There was Steve Jones
Eighteen years of age
A brilliant catâ€burglar
I nominated him guitarist
Light the fire!
There’s a fire, fire, fire, fire
Ah, there was another fellow, Paul Cook
Seventeen years of age
A phenomenal acrobat in A-1 condition
Always on time, he had to provide the beats
Fuck the rich up the arse!
Lurking in the corner of the shop
I noticed this Dickensian figure
Had it not been for his clear hair
I’d have thought him
Something out of “David Copperfierd”
I took the opportunity of confonting him
He pretended to think me an idiot, pushed me aside
When I learned he was Irish
And Steve saw his green teeth
We call him Johnny Rotten
Then there was Sidney, with a natural terrorist
Working in the clubs ensured him
That every gig the group played
Ended up in an unpredictable, bloody mess
Bashing and jumping all about
He invented the Pogo
I call them the Sex Pistols
With the line-up complete
We immediately set about
Putting our plan into effect
To swindle our way
To the top of the Rock ’n’ Roll industry
It was a plan that within two years
Was to bring us close to a million pounds
I have brought you many things in my time
But the most successful of all
Was an invention of mine they called punk rock
Anarchy! Anarchy!
Ah, let me start from the beginning
Find just out four kids
Make sure they hate each other
Make sure they can't play
There was Steve Jones
Eighteen years of age
A brilliant catâ€burglar
I nominated him guitarist
Light the fire!
There’s a fire, fire, fire, fire
Ah, there was another fellow, Paul Cook
Seventeen years of age
A phenomenal acrobat in A-1 condition
Always on time, he had to provide the beats
Fuck the rich up the arse!
Lurking in the corner of the shop
I noticed this Dickensian figure
Had it not been for his clear hair
I’d have thought him
Something out of “David Copperfierd”
I took the opportunity of confonting him
He pretended to think me an idiot, pushed me aside
When I learned he was Irish
And Steve saw his green teeth
We call him Johnny Rotten
Then there was Sidney, with a natural terrorist
Working in the clubs ensured him
That every gig the group played
Ended up in an unpredictable, bloody mess
Bashing and jumping all about
He invented the Pogo
I call them the Sex Pistols
With the line-up complete
We immediately set about
Putting our plan into effect
To swindle our way
To the top of the Rock ’n’ Roll industry
It was a plan that within two years
Was to bring us close to a million pounds
Lyrics submitted by marx, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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