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"
When all the knots of tension
Keep you from getting loose
Relax your love
Relax your living
And cruise past the people’s choice
And the backwoods attitudes
When you've done no sleeping
And all your dreams fall through
Relax your rush
Relax your grieving
And lose yourself in the trail
Of your woodwind solitude
Light in the corners of the room
In your eighth house is a rising moon
Better get out of here soon
Far away from the rag trade
Far away from this maritime state you’re stuck in
Relax your law
Relax your ego
And groove from the deep-sea dive
To the nose-bleed altitudes
When you divide the memories
Outside the photo booths
Relax your cause
Relax your feeling
And choose not the one that you want
But the one they just handed you
When that tequila, Guiness
Starts off to get you juiced
Relax your thoughts
Relax your breathing
And do what you want when you want
With whoever you wanted to
The sun’s eclipse, that Saturn swoons
In your eighth house is a darkened moon
Is it midnight or high noon?
Far away from this rag trade
Far away from this marathon race you’re running
Relax your costs
And dodge the zeroes
And prove what you think that you can’t
To whoever you needed to
Far away from the rag trade
Far away from this marathon state
Far away from the rag trade
Far away from this maritime state you’re stuck in
Keep you from getting loose
Relax your love
Relax your living
And cruise past the people’s choice
And the backwoods attitudes
When you've done no sleeping
And all your dreams fall through
Relax your rush
Relax your grieving
And lose yourself in the trail
Of your woodwind solitude
Light in the corners of the room
In your eighth house is a rising moon
Better get out of here soon
Far away from the rag trade
Far away from this maritime state you’re stuck in
Relax your law
Relax your ego
And groove from the deep-sea dive
To the nose-bleed altitudes
When you divide the memories
Outside the photo booths
Relax your cause
Relax your feeling
And choose not the one that you want
But the one they just handed you
When that tequila, Guiness
Starts off to get you juiced
Relax your thoughts
Relax your breathing
And do what you want when you want
With whoever you wanted to
The sun’s eclipse, that Saturn swoons
In your eighth house is a darkened moon
Is it midnight or high noon?
Far away from this rag trade
Far away from this marathon race you’re running
Relax your costs
And dodge the zeroes
And prove what you think that you can’t
To whoever you needed to
Far away from the rag trade
Far away from this marathon state
Far away from the rag trade
Far away from this maritime state you’re stuck in
Lyrics submitted by BlakeWolfsSN
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does anyone else think the opening chords to this song sound a lot like pavement's "two states" ?
definitely comparable, good ear.
its "tequila gimmicks" and isnt it "their backwards attitudes"?
This song is evidence that something doesn't have to be sad or morbid to be beautiful.
it's so upbeat. good feelings
I'm pretty sure it's "tequila gimlets" not "tequila, Guiness".
Wow a Bright Eyes song with less then 10 comments... That's why I retreated to it. Damn people starting to like good music.
so much water so close to home
its "tequila gimmicks" and isnt it "their backwards attitudes"?
do whatever you need to come into peace, and let it lead you "far away."
And choose not the one that you want But the one they just handed you
And do what you want when you want With whoever you wanted to
this is kindof contradictory because first he's saying do whatever someone tells you to and then he's saying do whatever you want whenever you want i guess after you've had a couple of drinks oh conor how i love you
i dont think he means do whatever someone tells you, its more like, be happy with what you get.