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"
Woo
Readymade, readymade
Steady as the rhythm rolls
Readymade, readymade
And this is how the story goes
I've got a cousin making beats
Deep down in Arizona
We're gonna rocket to Ramone's
In the city of Pomona, go
Readymade, readymade
Steady as the rhythm rolls
Readymade, readymade
And this is how the story goes
And if I give to you my second sight
You got it
And if I stay the course, I'll stay the night
Come get it
Readymade, readymade
Baby oughta celebrate
Readymade, readymade
And now it's time to deviate
I've got a sister making babies
With a Black and Decker blow torch
We're gonna flop it all night
In the middle of the back porch, yeah
Readymade, readymade
Baby oughta celebrate
Readymade, readymade
And now it's time to deviate
And if I give to you my second sight
You got it
And if I stay the course, I'll stay the night
Come get it
Oh, clean it up, Johnny
Readymade, readymade
Rockin' for the sake of slade
Readymade, readymade
Listen but don't be afraid
I've got a brother making trouble
In the state of Caledonia
I wish I knew another way
But I'm gonna have to clone ya, hey
Readymade, readymade
Rockin' for the sake of slade
Readymade, readymade
Listen but don't be afraid
And if I give to you my second sight
You got it
And if I stay the course, I'll stay the night
Come get it
Readymade, readymade
Steady as the rhythm rolls
Readymade, readymade
And this is how the story goes
I've got a cousin making beats
Deep down in Arizona
We're gonna rocket to Ramone's
In the city of Pomona, go
Readymade, readymade
Steady as the rhythm rolls
Readymade, readymade
And this is how the story goes
And if I give to you my second sight
You got it
And if I stay the course, I'll stay the night
Come get it
Readymade, readymade
Baby oughta celebrate
Readymade, readymade
And now it's time to deviate
I've got a sister making babies
With a Black and Decker blow torch
We're gonna flop it all night
In the middle of the back porch, yeah
Readymade, readymade
Baby oughta celebrate
Readymade, readymade
And now it's time to deviate
And if I give to you my second sight
You got it
And if I stay the course, I'll stay the night
Come get it
Oh, clean it up, Johnny
Readymade, readymade
Rockin' for the sake of slade
Readymade, readymade
Listen but don't be afraid
I've got a brother making trouble
In the state of Caledonia
I wish I knew another way
But I'm gonna have to clone ya, hey
Readymade, readymade
Rockin' for the sake of slade
Readymade, readymade
Listen but don't be afraid
And if I give to you my second sight
You got it
And if I stay the course, I'll stay the night
Come get it
Lyrics submitted by Anti_Emo_Kid, edited by carlemil10
Readymade Lyrics as written by Chad Smith Anthony Kiedis
Lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group
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but... what is it about? especially this part:
"I got a sister makin' babies with a black and decker blowtorch "
@tx4x2x - I was wondering this too. It sounds like a drug reference. I’m not too familiar with the Ramones and a lot of this song appears to be about them - I wonder if he is describing a hallucination or a woman’s addiction to drugs.
Using a “black and decker blowtorch” to smoke crack or prepare heroin and “making babies” - using her body to pay for her fix.
Just a guess.