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"
Humans can be; the cutest of animals - sometimes
And I walk out of the hospital cursing cars - because
All this turnover makes me so tired
And how are you feeling like the grime in these hospital walls
Can't quite wash out your tiredly lives.
Grandma tucks you in at night.
Says never be afraid - of anything outside.
Grandma tucks you in at night.
Says goodnight little sweet.
And you come from the dead people;
These pictures of the past
Litter the floor like news print.
Like cities fell in stacks.
And men jumped from buildings
The dust was overwhealming
Do we except; anything to last?
Grandma tucks you in at night.
Says never be afraid - of anything outside.
Grandma tucks you in at night.
Says goodnight little sweet.
Goodnight little sweet.
I'll sing you to sleep.
Watch everything recede.
La la la la
Goodnight little sweet.
Watch everything recede.
I'll sing you to sleep.
La la la la
Goodnight little sweet.
I'll sing you to sleep.
Watch everything recede.
La la la la
Goodnight little sweet.
Watch everything recede.
La la la la
And I walk out of the hospital cursing cars - because
All this turnover makes me so tired
And how are you feeling like the grime in these hospital walls
Can't quite wash out your tiredly lives.
Grandma tucks you in at night.
Says never be afraid - of anything outside.
Grandma tucks you in at night.
Says goodnight little sweet.
And you come from the dead people;
These pictures of the past
Litter the floor like news print.
Like cities fell in stacks.
And men jumped from buildings
The dust was overwhealming
Do we except; anything to last?
Grandma tucks you in at night.
Says never be afraid - of anything outside.
Grandma tucks you in at night.
Says goodnight little sweet.
Goodnight little sweet.
I'll sing you to sleep.
Watch everything recede.
La la la la
Goodnight little sweet.
Watch everything recede.
I'll sing you to sleep.
La la la la
Goodnight little sweet.
I'll sing you to sleep.
Watch everything recede.
La la la la
Goodnight little sweet.
Watch everything recede.
La la la la
Lyrics submitted by KeasbyKnights
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Im gonna go call my grandma. Gosh, i miss her
'all the white' in these hospital walls rather than "all the grime" ..?
maybe?
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The correct lyrics are:
"And how are you feeling? All the white in these hospital walls can't quite wash out your tired weak eyes."
I think this song is about the naïvety of childhood, and the naïve-like prudishness that elderly people tend to posess. When you're a child, you are shielded from the evils of the world by the adults in your life...
"Grandma tucks you in at night, Says, "Never be afraid of anything outside"
...But more often then not, this just leads to ignrance as the kid becomes an adult...
"Godnight, little sweet, Watch everything recede."
great song. beautiful vocals. great message. one of the best from defiance
I think this song is about losing someone's Grandma.
"And I walk out of the hospital cursing cars because all this turnover makes me so tired" In this line they describes when they leave the hospital after they've lost their Grandmother; they just feel so tired and like nothing is really happening, combined with the feeling of frustration at the world (the people in their cars).
"Grandma tucks you in at night; says never be afraid of anything outside. Grandma tucks you in at night, says goodnight little sweet." These lines are just remembering the little things that his/her Grandmother used to do when they were young.
"These pictures of the past litter the floor like news print, like cities fell in stacks." This just describes the time when you're looking at all the pictures of the person after they've gone.
"And men jumped from buildings, the dust was overwhelming, do we except anything to last?" Here they just question whether anything great can stay.
"Goodnight little sweet, watch everything recede... La la la la" I love these last lines so much. It seems to me like this is something their Grandmother used to say to them to help them fall asleep, and after she's gone they help themselves fall asleep by just saying that over in their head one last time.
HEY! guess what i finally figured out this song... it's about the great depression Like cities fell in stacks.--economy falling And men jumped from buildings--suicide rate was high during the great depression The dust was overwhealming--The Dust bowl in the south that killed crops and peoples farms! at the time of the great depression Do we except; anything to last? im guessing his grandmother lived during the great depression. readddd your history :-) like me
the dust was overwhealming- i think that gave it away. ----
No one else gets 9/11 vibes from this song? Cities falling in stacks, men jumping from buildings, dust overwhelming... I can see the Great Depression connection, too, but that one verse really resonates with the horrific imagery of 9/11 we all saw in the papers and on TV. No political message here, just human grieving.
Nope, my first thought was 9/11 too.