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"
We’re too old for teen violence
But we’re not too old for pre-teen violence
We’re too old for teen violence
But we’re not too old for pre-teen violence
FREAK!
Hard to the core
Flat on the floor
Give me some more
MARCH! down the hall
and report to the principal
MARCH! down the hall
and report to the principal
Kill your school books and rules
You’re no fool teach us stupid
Ring the bell, ditch this hell
You're too Cool
Too cool for this school
We’re too old for teen violence
But we’re not too old for pre-teen violence
We’re too old for teen violence
But we’re not too old for pre-teen violence
FREAK!
Hard to the core
Flat on the floor
Give me some more
MARCH! down the hall
and report to the principal
MARCH! down the hall
and report to the principal
Kill your school books and rules
You’re no fool teach us stupid
Ring the bell, ditch this hell
You're too Cool
Too cool for this school
Fail this class
Go home early
Get left back
I'm not sorry
Fail this class
Go home early
Get left back
I'm not sorry
MARCH! down the hall
and report to the principal
MARCH! down the hall
and report to the principal
Kill your school books and rules
You’re no fool teach us stupid
Ring the bell, ditch this hell
You're too Cool
Too cool for this school
But we’re not too old for pre-teen violence
We’re too old for teen violence
But we’re not too old for pre-teen violence
FREAK!
Hard to the core
Flat on the floor
Give me some more
MARCH! down the hall
and report to the principal
MARCH! down the hall
and report to the principal
Kill your school books and rules
You’re no fool teach us stupid
Ring the bell, ditch this hell
You're too Cool
Too cool for this school
We’re too old for teen violence
But we’re not too old for pre-teen violence
We’re too old for teen violence
But we’re not too old for pre-teen violence
FREAK!
Hard to the core
Flat on the floor
Give me some more
MARCH! down the hall
and report to the principal
MARCH! down the hall
and report to the principal
Kill your school books and rules
You’re no fool teach us stupid
Ring the bell, ditch this hell
You're too Cool
Too cool for this school
Fail this class
Go home early
Get left back
I'm not sorry
Fail this class
Go home early
Get left back
I'm not sorry
MARCH! down the hall
and report to the principal
MARCH! down the hall
and report to the principal
Kill your school books and rules
You’re no fool teach us stupid
Ring the bell, ditch this hell
You're too Cool
Too cool for this school
Lyrics submitted by Gwirleybee
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I'm 13 and seem to be one of perhaps 4 or 5 people my age in the entire fucking STATE who can grasp the irony that absolutely soaks our lives, especially our social lives. It's either sad, or, if you appreciate MSI and live life "with tongue firmly in cheek," disturbingly funny. This song IS my middle school. It's a fairly major deviation from the MSI norm, but I heard it and immediately loved it.
Now, let me sit back (and do the first-comment dance) while everyone else calls me a "fucking gay/lesbian/poser/child/etc" ad nauseum. And yes, I'm always this patronizing to people who judge me for being a "foolish lil poser kiddie."
I'm 13 and seem to be one of perhaps 4 or 5 people my age in the entire fucking STATE who can grasp the irony that absolutely soaks our lives, especially our social lives. It's either sad, or, if you appreciate MSI and live life "with tongue firmly in cheek," disturbingly funny. This song IS my middle school. It's a fairly major deviation from the MSI norm, but I heard it and immediately loved it.
Now, let me sit back (and do the first-comment dance) while everyone else calls me a "fucking gay/lesbian/poser/child/etc" ad nauseum. And yes, I'm always this patronizing to people who judge me for being a "foolish lil poser kiddie."
And you post double, kiddo! ^^
But nice to see the young crowd appreciating MSI and seeing the dullness of life. Have fun!
Ah, crappity! I didn't see that! Why do they refuse to give us a simple "delete comment" button?
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I haven't got the slightest idea... but it shouldn't be too complicated, or not?
it's doesn't make sense. "We're too old for teen violence, but we're not too old for pre-teen violence" wtf? x]
Personally, I think preteen violence is WAY more funny then regular teen shit. Who doesnt like seeing little people go at it.
This song...highschool dropouts...maybe. I mean, they're "too old" for teenage stuff "but not too old" for pre teen violence....they're too mature for schoo, but not too mature for ditching...maybe