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 sit alone almost every night
I watch those trains roll on by, out of sight
No, it's not the same old story, it's news to me
I'd say so it's the not only way to be
I worked in town on nothing for free
Nothing left in this place for the likes of me
I wish to God, I just wish that I
Got no money in my pockets you see
Gimme no, gimme no, gimme no, gimme no
No money in my pockets you see
Gimme no, gimme no, gimme no, gimme no
It's not the same old story it's news to me
I would say so but the only way to be out
I'm typing almost every night
I watch my dreams float by, out of sight
I wish to God that I just been stabbed
Got no money in my pockets you see
Gimme no, gimme no, gimme no, gimme no
No money in my pockets you see
Gimme no, gimme no, gimme no, gimme no
It's not the same old story it's news to me
I would say so but the only way to be out
I'm typing almost every night
I watch my dreams float by, out of sight
I wish to god that I just been stabbed
I watch those trains roll on by, out of sight
No, it's not the same old story, it's news to me
I'd say so it's the not only way to be
I worked in town on nothing for free
Nothing left in this place for the likes of me
I wish to God, I just wish that I
Got no money in my pockets you see
Gimme no, gimme no, gimme no, gimme no
No money in my pockets you see
Gimme no, gimme no, gimme no, gimme no
It's not the same old story it's news to me
I would say so but the only way to be out
I'm typing almost every night
I watch my dreams float by, out of sight
I wish to God that I just been stabbed
Got no money in my pockets you see
Gimme no, gimme no, gimme no, gimme no
No money in my pockets you see
Gimme no, gimme no, gimme no, gimme no
It's not the same old story it's news to me
I would say so but the only way to be out
I'm typing almost every night
I watch my dreams float by, out of sight
I wish to god that I just been stabbed
Lyrics submitted by maglob, edited by MrShambles
I Wish Lyrics as written by Drew Mcconnell Peter Doherty
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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i think this is actually showing how unromantic crack is by saying he is just sitting there while his dreams float away he feels so bad he consider suicide again pete is showing us the harsh reality of addiction; this is why it annoys me when some one says he is influencing the youth to do it
agreed..actually most of his songs shows the hell of the drug addiction, like delivery and this one for a exemple.
I love this song, i think it's really clever, the way the music is so happy and uplifting, whereas the lyrics, in parts are sad and deep, theres a lot of sadness in this song, "I wish to god that I just been stabbed" but its still a brilliant song!
brilliant. liking the reggae sound, appears very upbeat but the lyrics tell a very different story
i thought it was saying 'Gimme no gimme no gimme no work' because this song is just about being skint and 'piping' away whilst your dreams float away with the sound. it took me a while to get into it but i really like this song, pete described it as one of the strongest songs he ever co-written which is saying something. his guitarist mik whitnall wrote the music pete said this song was 'his baby' and pete wrote the lyrics. good song to sing when ur feeling the effects of having no money lol.
"I'm piping almost every night I watch my dreams float by, out of sight"
You sure do, Peter.
oi! isn't there a little "alright george deaver" after "stabbed"? i sure can hear it but have no idea of who george is
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"I'm piping almost every night I watch my dreams float by, out of sight"
makes crack sound romantic.
wow, so few comments? i really like this song! it's fun to play, sing and just listen to, like, whenever. about being poor. sedative: you are right, he does say "alright george deaver". no idea who that is, pete probably just made him up...
George deaver was his first band manager who he fell out with quite badly, george deaver once said he could have stabbed him
this song vaguely reminds me of Can't Stand Me Now, in that it sounds upbeat, but when you look at the lyrics and figure out the actual meaning of the song, it's a tragedy.
Yeah, because Can't Stand Me Now was really hard to figure out. If only it had been called something that gave away it's sadder purpose. Maybe something like Can't Stand Me Now, which is what it was fucking called. Seriously, did anyone actually think that one was supposed to be a happy song just because it sounded upbeat? Or are you just really, really stupid?