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 been peddling sugary drinks to all the little kids for weeks
Spending late nights at the factory
Making fat stacks for my family
But now my wife's been getting shady
That trick-ass mark don't call me baby
I'll sit by the window sill and if she's got another man
Then juice will spill
Thought I had people I could trust like my boy, Captain Crunch
I know he'd never do me like that, behind my back
I found her mouth all cut up, and his hat in the corner
Yo, homes you don't know what I'm capable of
Before Kool-aid picks me up
I ran blocks, I sold rock
G's up, hoes down and I have all these snitches stomped
Then I grew up
And got a real job peddling drinks to all these little snobs
And if you think that I fell off
Then watch you're back before you get popped
I'll disconnect the Captain's neck
And make him wish that he was dead
I'll disconnect the Captain's neck
And make him wish that he was dead
I'll smash your skull like a crunch-berry punk
Thought I had people I could trust like my boy, Captain Crunch
I know he'd never do me like that, behind my back
I found her mouth all cut up, and his hat in the corner
Yo, homes you don't know what I'm capable of
So keep my name out your mouth, son
Spending late nights at the factory
Making fat stacks for my family
But now my wife's been getting shady
That trick-ass mark don't call me baby
I'll sit by the window sill and if she's got another man
Then juice will spill
Thought I had people I could trust like my boy, Captain Crunch
I know he'd never do me like that, behind my back
I found her mouth all cut up, and his hat in the corner
Yo, homes you don't know what I'm capable of
Before Kool-aid picks me up
I ran blocks, I sold rock
G's up, hoes down and I have all these snitches stomped
Then I grew up
And got a real job peddling drinks to all these little snobs
And if you think that I fell off
Then watch you're back before you get popped
I'll disconnect the Captain's neck
And make him wish that he was dead
I'll disconnect the Captain's neck
And make him wish that he was dead
I'll smash your skull like a crunch-berry punk
Thought I had people I could trust like my boy, Captain Crunch
I know he'd never do me like that, behind my back
I found her mouth all cut up, and his hat in the corner
Yo, homes you don't know what I'm capable of
So keep my name out your mouth, son
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Haha, great song. The Kool Aid Man finally has a great job being the Kool Aid Mascot. But latey, his wife has been acting strange. And to his suprise, the guy she's sleeping with, is his good, trustworthy friend, Captain Crunch. And the Kool Aid Man is officially pissed. And Captain Crunh is about to get fruit punched.
Haha, great song. The Kool Aid Man finally has a great job being the Kool Aid Mascot. But latey, his wife has been acting strange. And to his suprise, the guy she's sleeping with, is his good, trustworthy friend, Captain Crunch. And the Kool Aid Man is officially pissed. And Captain Crunch is about to get fruit punched.
Haha, great song. The Kool Aid Man finally has a great job being the Kool Aid Mascot. But latey, his wife has been acting strange. And to his suprise, the guy she's sleeping with, is his good, trustworthy friend, Captain Crunch. And the Kool Aid Man is officially pissed. And Captain Crunch is about to get fruit punched.
haha This song seem so nostalgic with the kool-aid and cap'n crunch references, but it's about a situation thats pretty upsetting.
I love this band!
I love the name of this song. I especially like the part where he says "I found her mouth all cut up" I think pretty much all of this band's lyrics are irreverent, so good luck trying to discern what the hell they mean...
to "fateworksbothways" i think the part where he says "i found her mouth all cut up" is a refrence to how captin crunch always ends up cutting the roof of your mouth when u eat it, so that was just another sign that his wife was cheating on him, damn these dudes are genius lol
haha no kidding
I believe this is song is like a cover up. Like how he is the Kool-Aid man and Kaptain Krunch is fooling around with his wife. Maybe its supposed to be like one them had a girl and a close friend took his girl and now he wants revenge. Look at my name I would know.
Maybe I'm looking to into this but I believe it's a metaphor for a drug dealer turning into a bartender and his boss stealing his girl. But it's like a personal friend (the boss) so it hurts a lot more and he's more willing to beat the fuck out of him.
this song is the perfect definition of pop punk.