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"
She's been thinking
We're fucking off, we're not going home today
And shes been eating too much magic beans
To walk home anyway
?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ground
Put up your picture and
The playful love will get around
Yeah well we'll get around, yeah
Yeah well we'll get around
Everyone's feeling alright
I won't be sleeping today
And I won't be sleeping tonight
We're feeling silly, I'm feeling oh so sick
And I can't see you through the smoke
Because the clouds so thick
And there's a fire and you're dancing
To that disco sound
Put up your picture baby
And the love will get around
Yeah well we'll get around, yeah
Yeah we'll get around
Everyone's feeling alright
I won't be sleeping today
And I won't be sleeping tonight
We're fucking off, we're not going home today
And shes been eating too much magic beans
To walk home anyway
?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ground
Put up your picture and
The playful love will get around
Yeah well we'll get around, yeah
Yeah well we'll get around
Everyone's feeling alright
I won't be sleeping today
And I won't be sleeping tonight
We're feeling silly, I'm feeling oh so sick
And I can't see you through the smoke
Because the clouds so thick
And there's a fire and you're dancing
To that disco sound
Put up your picture baby
And the love will get around
Yeah well we'll get around, yeah
Yeah we'll get around
Everyone's feeling alright
I won't be sleeping today
And I won't be sleeping tonight
Lyrics submitted by aclockworktomato
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where did ya here this song from???
To xboredomx: I've forgotten. All I remember is I got it offline, probably from limewire, and Alex sounded really reeeally drunk when he was singing it. It's probably one of their early recordings.
ha I'm like who's singing this? I couldn't even tell.
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haha I LOOOVE THE WAY HE SINGS THIIIS SOONG!!!! and at the end when he sings: AND I WONT BE SLEEPING TONGIHT! the and part he yells it :] its soo adorable.
yeah its because he used to sign in an american accent, took him awhile to realise how fucking amazing his voice is anyway :-) i think 'To walk all men away' is 'To walk home that way'
im pretty sure the beginning is:
did you ever think about fucking off and not going home today? and shes been eating too many magic beans to walk home anyway
love this song!
he's sooo drukn or high or smtin cause i cant understand half the things he says. but I love this song
hahaha i remember hearing about how he used to sing in an american accent... and after a couple listens of this [im kinda slow on picking up things] im like hmmm i think this maybe one of the early the american accent ones.
that line that you guys have as question marks always cracks me up.
do any of you guys know how to play this on guitar coz i reli reli wud like to know
oh my god this song is all wrong, his voice sounds awful