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"
You brought us the a-bomb
In so many ways endorsed by God and The Book
So God loves a war monger?
Hey Mr.Blix: forget Iraq and the time it took
'Cause I know just where to look
"could we have a vote please?"
They came with a song, America
They wouldn't stay long, America
We are America
God bless America
God bless America and Capitol Hill
'Cause no one else will
So now you are scared
The arabs will kill for their god
Like you do for yours?
Protect your obesity with your life man
Hey, Angry God or Diet Coke?
Who cares it's all a joke
"Heil homo pecuniae"
Saving us yet another time
Earning a buck on every dime
Sick of America
Sick of America
Sick of America and Capitol Hill
Moving in for the next kill
Did you say "I love you"?
A simpler democracy
Where every flaw and failure is called a "Right"
A new form of freedom
Based on your income, your color, creed
And your choice of gun
But it provides great fun
"Dr. Phil or Oprah?"
"Letterman or Leno?"
"Idol or Big Brother?"
[we'll be back after this short break]
It could have been good America
It could have been great America
Land of the brave and free
Welcoming you and me
But this Brave New World is not as new anymore
Each day a new store
Each year a new war
While chosen whites rule the poor
In America
Oh America
Don't you walk out on me
Just wait a second now
Please hear me out
Oh
I'll do my best to love you
Oh yes I will
I know you're out there
C'mon
Raise your voices
Don't let them ruin your reputation
Don't let them wreck your constitution
Not out of fear
Not out of greed
But you had a good run America
Your day in the sun America
Hello British Empire
Hello Roman Empire
Hello Soviet
There is a new kid in town
Joining the gone down
Finding what you found
Treading your worn, worn down ground
Rise to your former glory
Be brave and warm
Oh America
If I say I love you
If I say I love you
If I say I love you
Dare you love me too?
In so many ways endorsed by God and The Book
So God loves a war monger?
Hey Mr.Blix: forget Iraq and the time it took
'Cause I know just where to look
"could we have a vote please?"
They came with a song, America
They wouldn't stay long, America
We are America
God bless America
God bless America and Capitol Hill
'Cause no one else will
So now you are scared
The arabs will kill for their god
Like you do for yours?
Protect your obesity with your life man
Hey, Angry God or Diet Coke?
Who cares it's all a joke
"Heil homo pecuniae"
Saving us yet another time
Earning a buck on every dime
Sick of America
Sick of America
Sick of America and Capitol Hill
Moving in for the next kill
Did you say "I love you"?
A simpler democracy
Where every flaw and failure is called a "Right"
A new form of freedom
Based on your income, your color, creed
And your choice of gun
But it provides great fun
"Dr. Phil or Oprah?"
"Letterman or Leno?"
"Idol or Big Brother?"
[we'll be back after this short break]
It could have been good America
It could have been great America
Land of the brave and free
Welcoming you and me
But this Brave New World is not as new anymore
Each day a new store
Each year a new war
While chosen whites rule the poor
In America
Oh America
Don't you walk out on me
Just wait a second now
Please hear me out
Oh
I'll do my best to love you
Oh yes I will
I know you're out there
C'mon
Raise your voices
Don't let them ruin your reputation
Don't let them wreck your constitution
Not out of fear
Not out of greed
But you had a good run America
Your day in the sun America
Hello British Empire
Hello Roman Empire
Hello Soviet
There is a new kid in town
Joining the gone down
Finding what you found
Treading your worn, worn down ground
Rise to your former glory
Be brave and warm
Oh America
If I say I love you
If I say I love you
If I say I love you
Dare you love me too?
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The most amazing anti-american song I've heard recently.
The most amazing anti-american song I've heard recently.
Pretty much every stereotype about America wrapped up in a neat little package
Daniel nails the attitude of modern America and its government in this song. You can tell he's pretty pissed off about the massive super power shitting all over everything.
But Dan provides hope at the end, calling people to action and saying the wrongs can be righted. An inspiring song.
He thinks we've fucked up America, but in the same way we fucked up America, he knows we can fix it and make it better than ever. In the end, I wouldn't call this a necessarily anti-American song, as he has faith that there are good Americans out there who want to fix their nation (fourth verse from the bottom).
It's kind of catchy, ironically.
I think the chorus, musically, is a mockery of the song America from West Side Story. It sounds very similar to it, and the happy-go-lucky nature is clearly sarcastic; otherwise it would be very unlike PoS
Nice comment ricbass78- there is that beautiful 'sarcasm' to the cheerful tone of the piece (especially in comparison to their other songs). I also think the chorus sounds similar to Kim Wylde's "Kids in America" hit from the 80s, again with a sarcastic twist on it. Love it, great band and a great song.
Sorry guys... This song isn't Anti-American... this song is the most Pro-American song I've heard since Stephen Lynch sang his song by the same title. Their message is almost the same. I recommend listening to Stephen's America, cause he hits the last point much harder. It helped me to understand this song. Daniel believes in the "American Dream", but he can see that it turned into the "American Nightmare", and has hope that there's still enough time and strength for Americans to go back to the pure dream of the past.
lol the whole song is just throwing shit at America
Rated down. You just didn't take even one closer look... You just saw that he said something bad about America as it is now and automatically went do defense mode, disregarding the song's meaning entirely. This page is called SongMeanings.net, not TheFirstThingThatComesToMyMindAfterLookingThruTheLyricsForAFewSeconds.net.<br /> <br /> Look deeper. Daniel loves America. The America of old. The America of "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" The America of "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, [...] with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."<br /> <br /> He is begging you only to ask yourself one thing: Is modern America still "the land of the free and home of the brave"? Going deeper into that: Does the Star-spangled Banner, representing each state as a white star(clear of guilt for grievous wrong-doings), combined with the red stripes of valor and honor and the white stripes(once again bringing to mind purity and innocence), still wave over the policies of the federation of free countries that make up the United States? Does it still deserve the white stripes of innocence, or should they be turned "dollar" green, "oil" black, and "blood" red? And in the end... Do the American people really not care that their ideals, the thoughts that they've been taught to have since they were little kids, their most revered texts, such as The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, and the first ten amendments to the Constitution known as The Bill of Rights are being raped by stupid, greedy, scared little shits(sorry for being vulgar, but nothing else gives the meaning I wish in such concise form) with nothing on their minds but "How to stuff as much cash in our wallets as possible, before somebody notices and kicks us out?"?<br /> <br /> The time is up. The people, some, like Daniel Gildenlow, from the outside, some, like Stephen Lynch for example, from inside the States, have opened their eyes and see how wrong things have become. They're trying to wake the others, those who don't see it yet, up.<br /> <br /> To finish this rant... I'll quote Benjamin Franklin and the most famous paraphrase that will make things easier for those who don't like to analyze things too deeply:<br /> <br /> "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power" or in other words "He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither and will lose them both."<br /> <br /> P.S.: "There never was a good war or a bad peace." but "[...}Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.[...]"