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 know how you are with these things
And you're not gonna stop
I know how you are
Yeah you're an artist
When you tear things apart
Oh
I think it's when your friends
(Don't think that you know)
Twist the knife in your back
And I'm still giving into it
I don't think that you know
I can assure that you don't
And there is nothing that I can say,
To you, To soothe...To you To soothe.
I'm pressing my luck
On the neck of regret
And distress
Cause it's not like it's our favorite thing
Don't you dare forget
Don't you dare forget
That nothing with meaning is easy
It's so easy
To vomit the words
and choke.
Blood
You've never seen a machine
Like this before
Yeah yeah yeah
Whoa whoa whoa ohhoho whoa
I'm pressing my luck
On the neck of regret
And distress
Cause it's not like it's our favorite thing and
Don't you dare
And don't you dare forget
And don't you dare forget
That nothing with meaning is easy easy
You've never seen a machine like this
It devours devours the flowers
The flowers
The flowers are fake
The flowers are fake
The flowers are fake
Yeah yeah yeah
Whoa whoa whoa ohhoho whoa
Cause I'm gone goodbye yeah
Cause I'm gone goodbye yeah
And you're not gonna stop
I know how you are
Yeah you're an artist
When you tear things apart
Oh
I think it's when your friends
(Don't think that you know)
Twist the knife in your back
And I'm still giving into it
I don't think that you know
I can assure that you don't
And there is nothing that I can say,
To you, To soothe...To you To soothe.
I'm pressing my luck
On the neck of regret
And distress
Cause it's not like it's our favorite thing
Don't you dare forget
Don't you dare forget
That nothing with meaning is easy
It's so easy
To vomit the words
and choke.
Blood
You've never seen a machine
Like this before
Yeah yeah yeah
Whoa whoa whoa ohhoho whoa
I'm pressing my luck
On the neck of regret
And distress
Cause it's not like it's our favorite thing and
Don't you dare
And don't you dare forget
And don't you dare forget
That nothing with meaning is easy easy
You've never seen a machine like this
It devours devours the flowers
The flowers
The flowers are fake
The flowers are fake
The flowers are fake
Yeah yeah yeah
Whoa whoa whoa ohhoho whoa
Cause I'm gone goodbye yeah
Cause I'm gone goodbye yeah
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well as much as your interpretaion makes sense i talked to tino the other day( the drummer) and he said its about how the weatherman is a really trusted figure that everyone relies on but he could be a completly different person off camera.
Cause its not like its our favorite thing <br />
I tried my bext but in the song sometimes it is hard to understand what Matt is saying. Also I think this is a break up song.
I have revised it with Lower Definitions edits so yes this is the correct version of The Weatherman song.
this song is about the band. the break-ups and losses that they've had i.e: "the flowers are fake" & "nothing with meaning is easy"
& how they're going to come back stronger and be better i.e: "you've never seen a machine like this before"
they didnt come back this time :[[[[[[[[[[[[[
that this person got a lot of the shit wrong!
yeah i see that totally. i mean sometimes you have to look at the title and it will make more sense. still as an artist you try leave it open ended so it can be interpreted differently depending on the reader. it's funnnnn. :]
i think this songs message is kinda like "dont judge a book by its cover" ithink this because
3 "You've never seen a machine like this It devours devours the flowers" ...i think that he is the machine and he has the ability to see through her lies.
4."Cause Im gone goodbye yeah" means tht he left her ass..simple as that
...pretty much i think this song is just about a girl who really wasnt what she seemed to be, and he figured that out and left her ass. at least. thats what i think
I moved recently and "the special someone" sent me this verses from that song:
"And don't you dare forget That nothing with meaning is easy easy"
So I guess that, yes, it can be a break up song. But still, he is giving some kind of hope that it may be hard but is worth it. because it has a stronger meaning. because it matters. that's my point of view. (: