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"
He's just a man getting through life the best he can
He's a not a scientist, he programs a computer
Before that he sold cars to pay a student loan now he receives
Pity
From his family, his friends say how could he
Turn his back on on reason worshiping
A God finding truth through fear and mind control
He's just a man trying to explain how
He found the word of God could make his life seem less insane
So he shares what he's read, what he understands, it makes
Sense to him, it makes perfect sense to him, in fact
He's never seen so clearly
Turned his back on free will, has he lost his mind?
He'd rather kneel down than take charge of his life
And he knows what people think, but it dosen't sway him
He can read the writings on the wall
'Cause he knows how people treat, how they treat each other
A sacrifice to benefit the all
Don't try to judge him, his theological ideas
His hopes may be false but his happiness is real
Don't try to judge him, he's just a man
He's a not a scientist, he programs a computer
Before that he sold cars to pay a student loan now he receives
Pity
From his family, his friends say how could he
Turn his back on on reason worshiping
A God finding truth through fear and mind control
He's just a man trying to explain how
He found the word of God could make his life seem less insane
So he shares what he's read, what he understands, it makes
Sense to him, it makes perfect sense to him, in fact
He's never seen so clearly
Turned his back on free will, has he lost his mind?
He'd rather kneel down than take charge of his life
And he knows what people think, but it dosen't sway him
He can read the writings on the wall
'Cause he knows how people treat, how they treat each other
A sacrifice to benefit the all
Don't try to judge him, his theological ideas
His hopes may be false but his happiness is real
Don't try to judge him, he's just a man
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Love this song, I think it's about a guy who gave up all his possesions and just follows the word of God. And basically I think there trying to say at the end just let him do what he feels is right and don't judge him for what he believes in...
NOFX wrote this when they was tolerate of Relgion, now they fucking HATE relgion, fair play.
your kidding me no one commneted on this? its only one of the best songs nofx ever did.
I agree with you rush! But i think its pretty obvious what its about...
Je t'adore, je t'adore, je t'window I don't care
This is quite an amazing song.
This song kicks ass. It's pretty self explanotory.
For some reason for a while I thought instead of "before that he sold cars" it said "Before that he sold DOS" so I thought it was about the dude that sold Bill Gates the DOS OS for 50 grand, which then made Bill Gates a very rich fuck...funny.
Personally I dont think they have ever liked religion... But anyways, yeah the song is about a guy, who finds god, and it makes him happy. And if it makes him happy, who cares. even if we think it's a pile of shit. One of the best songs on this albumn, can't believe only 2 comments
they dont HATE religion, thats what this song is about. how they think he might be a fool for believing, but they accept him. Advocating hate on religion is just as bad as religion advocating hate. If it makes him happy, then why should they or anyone else care? btw, im athiest
Before I became Christian I was a pretty big fan of NOFX, and I still like them though I do hold some reservations now. I agree wiith Heimlich. They personally are non-beleivers, and may think people are fools for following religion, but in the end they are accepting and in today's society, that is a beautiful thing.
There's a typo I think - instead of "his theologian ideas", I think it's "his theological ideals". One of their best songs, I love this one.