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 don't care what nobody says
We're gonna have a baby
Taking off in a Coupe de Ville
She's buckled up on navy
She don't care what her momma says
No she gonna have my baby
Taking all that I have to take
This takings gonna shake me
People call us renegades
'Cause we like living crazy
We like takin' on the town
'Cause people's getting lazy
I don't care what nobody says
No I'm gonna be her lover
Always mad and you's a drunk
But I love her like no other
And in the dark we say we don't know
Where we're gonna go
I'm a ghost and I don't think I quite know
Where we're gonna go
Where we're gonna go
People call us renegades
'Cause we like living crazy
We like takin' on the town
'Cause people's getting lazy
I don't care what nobody says
No I'm gonna be her lover
Always mad and you's a drunk
But I love her like no other
And her daddy he says he don't know
Where we're gonna go
I'm a ghost and I don't think I quite know
Where we're gonna go
Where we're gonna go
Where we're gonna go
Where we're gonna go
Where we gonna
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
People call us renegades (Whoa-a oh oh oh)
We like takin' on this town (Whoa-a oh oh oh)
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
I don't care what nobody says
We're gonna have a baby
Takin' off in a Coupe de Ville
She's buckled up on navy
She don't care what her momma says
No she gonna have my baby
I'm takin' all I have to take
This takings gonna shape me
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
We're gonna have a baby
Taking off in a Coupe de Ville
She's buckled up on navy
She don't care what her momma says
No she gonna have my baby
Taking all that I have to take
This takings gonna shake me
People call us renegades
'Cause we like living crazy
We like takin' on the town
'Cause people's getting lazy
I don't care what nobody says
No I'm gonna be her lover
Always mad and you's a drunk
But I love her like no other
And in the dark we say we don't know
Where we're gonna go
I'm a ghost and I don't think I quite know
Where we're gonna go
Where we're gonna go
People call us renegades
'Cause we like living crazy
We like takin' on the town
'Cause people's getting lazy
I don't care what nobody says
No I'm gonna be her lover
Always mad and you's a drunk
But I love her like no other
And her daddy he says he don't know
Where we're gonna go
I'm a ghost and I don't think I quite know
Where we're gonna go
Where we're gonna go
Where we're gonna go
Where we're gonna go
Where we gonna
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
People call us renegades (Whoa-a oh oh oh)
We like takin' on this town (Whoa-a oh oh oh)
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
I don't care what nobody says
We're gonna have a baby
Takin' off in a Coupe de Ville
She's buckled up on navy
She don't care what her momma says
No she gonna have my baby
I'm takin' all I have to take
This takings gonna shape me
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
(Whoa-a oh oh oh)
Lyrics submitted by Razorlight16
Knocked Up Lyrics as written by Jared Followill Caleb Followill
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Word Collections Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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From an EW.com interview with Caleb
That song started with the melody and it started chugging along, then the first thing that came into my head was, ''I don't care what nobody says, we're going to have a baby.'' Everyone just looked at me in the rehearsal room and I threw my hands in the air and said, ''I don't know what to say – it just came out.'' I think the reason I talk about having a baby is because of my fear of an actual relationship. I can actually see myself having a kid before I can see myself getting married, and I know that goes against everything we were raised to believe, but the whole marriage thing...I don't know if it really works these days, which is unfortunate. It just seems divorce is inevitable. So for me talking about having a baby in that song, it's like the glue that might keep things together, or at least an excuse to make it last a little longer
the best kings of leon song.
to date.
this awesome song makes me think of romeo and juliet, defying all odds to be together and have their baby.
hes describing both of them as reckless and drunken and how people call them crazy renegades kinda makes us question their ability of being parents
but he explains in the song that this "taking" that being their current situation with running away and having a baby will shake but also shape him.
Another first track startup song...what a buildup, what a topic to build upon! Bravo
*coupe
oh and CallieAwesomepants : i know its a trip but go to bonnarro! they are in the line up and its one of the best experiences you will have, ever
it's navy. i love when he says 'always mad and usually drunk but i love her like no other' it's one of the most romantic phrases of this song, in a rare way
"Always mad and usually drunk But I love her like no other"
there is something about those lines that is so romantic in such a warped way. it reminds me of a real relationship. the fact you have to take someone for the good and the bad.
i never noticed this before today, but a few seconds into it if you turn it up all the way you can hear caleb say, "hey dad"
I think the lyrics are pretty obvious (and fantastic). But i also think there's a deeper meaning in the actual tune. The song begins with a steady base. Nothing special. Then, all of a sudden, these high guitar picks jump in. It's almost like the base is all his buddies and family saying "what a stupid thing to do," and he starts agreeing with them. Then he realizes he's gonna have this girl to himself forever and actually have a child with her. He sees the happiness of the situation. The joy he feels is the high guitar picks. Think about it.
"always mad and usually drunk but a LOVER like no other"...and "she's buckled up on MAYBE" maybe??
it's definitely "maybe", not "navy"