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"
200 gallons ago, I buttoned up my jacket
I said goodnight to my supervisor, walked to my car, and unlocked it
The inside's so cold, at least the shit's still running
Picked up my cell phone; the roof of the car looks good for slugging
Walked in through my back door like a bull through bedsheets
There were flowers on the floor went from bull, to weak in the knees
Yeah, I'm a fuck-up. First day home.
Yeah, I'm fucked up and I'm calling you.
Put a camera in my car and you'd get me less and less and less.
I need a windshield built for war that can withstand my confidence
Today I reached into a shitter and saw the inmost part of me
My reflection has looked better, but never clean
Yeah, I'm a fuck-up. First day home.
Yeah, I'm fucked up and I'm calling you.
Nights like these won't be avoided.
Not by me
I said goodnight to my supervisor, walked to my car, and unlocked it
The inside's so cold, at least the shit's still running
Picked up my cell phone; the roof of the car looks good for slugging
Walked in through my back door like a bull through bedsheets
There were flowers on the floor went from bull, to weak in the knees
Yeah, I'm a fuck-up. First day home.
Yeah, I'm fucked up and I'm calling you.
Put a camera in my car and you'd get me less and less and less.
I need a windshield built for war that can withstand my confidence
Today I reached into a shitter and saw the inmost part of me
My reflection has looked better, but never clean
Yeah, I'm a fuck-up. First day home.
Yeah, I'm fucked up and I'm calling you.
Nights like these won't be avoided.
Not by me
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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such an epic song... reminds me of the aftermath of a stressful night at a blue collar job to me. The singer then seems contimplative on the way home, maybe considering if the job is worth the stress, maybe contemplating taking a different path. Just reminds me of my labor days getting off work at 11 pm with nothing to do but watch late night tv and think about my future. That may be way off from what the songs about but its perfectly relevant to me in that sense.
I agree Terrorhawk. Though I think it might be returning home from a semester at school rather than a late night at work. Long drive (200 miles long) back to his parents house.
I do wonder what the problem was when he got home though. Maybe quite literally a funeral for his dog? And what's up with the line "put a camera in my car, and you get me less and less and less." ?
I think that line has to do with the line about driving home. I think he's pretty much saying, if you could see what i do when i'm alone you'd get me even less. in this case he's using the example of the car. I see it as him kind of singing in the car like many of us do, with no inhibitions, thus the line, " i need a windsheild built for war, that can withstand my confidence." just my interpretation.
'Bury the dog' is slang for sex, so I reckon the title means "turn up, eat dinner, sleep with her and then leave right after", but I'm not sure what relevance this has to the lyrics of the song.
I think the "200 gallons ago" refers to the distance he's travelled the whole night: driving home from work, finding the flowers on the floor and going weak in the knees, and then maybe going to see someone after that.
I'm thinking maybe about a break-up? Like, he's been at work, got home and found "flowers on the floor", felt weak, admitted he's a fuck-up and is now calling someone...seems to me like his girlfriend has left him while he was out and now he's calling her. I dunno.
This reminds me when I worked at a job I hated. I worked 2nd shift and I'd get off anytime between 10:30-2:30 at night, go home and punch my doors out of anger, frustration, etc. They still have dents in them.
Don't know what the flowers on the floor mean, though.
I'm pretty sure the line "today I reached into a shitter and saw the inmost part of me" is a reference to Trainspotting.
200 gallons ago refers to alcohol.