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"
From the crawlspace under the floor
Turned away from your front door
I'm in your memories
I'm in your memories
Don't turn your back on me
I'm part of what you used to be
Don't turn your back on me
Don't turn your back on me
You fly along the stratosphere
Forget the people that brought you here
You fly along the stratosphere
Forget the people that brought you here
Shimmy, shimmy my way down underground
Got a lot to do
Got a lot to lose
Oooh, ah ah, oooohhh
I'll always treat you well
Ah, ahhh
But you won't accept the change
You fly along the stratosphere
Forget the people that brought you here
You fly along the stratosphere
Forget the people that brought you here
Shimmy, shimmy my way down underground
Got a lot to do
Got a lot to lose
I'll save your ass a thousand times
Put your body bag inside of mine
I'm back on top of a fucking cloud
The big bang is so goddamn loud
Run the play man, run the play
1969, 2012 today
Moon walking in my leather shoes
I don't have a fucking clue
Turned away from your front door
I'm in your memories
I'm in your memories
Don't turn your back on me
I'm part of what you used to be
Don't turn your back on me
Don't turn your back on me
You fly along the stratosphere
Forget the people that brought you here
You fly along the stratosphere
Forget the people that brought you here
Shimmy, shimmy my way down underground
Got a lot to do
Got a lot to lose
Oooh, ah ah, oooohhh
I'll always treat you well
Ah, ahhh
But you won't accept the change
You fly along the stratosphere
Forget the people that brought you here
You fly along the stratosphere
Forget the people that brought you here
Shimmy, shimmy my way down underground
Got a lot to do
Got a lot to lose
I'll save your ass a thousand times
Put your body bag inside of mine
I'm back on top of a fucking cloud
The big bang is so goddamn loud
Run the play man, run the play
1969, 2012 today
Moon walking in my leather shoes
I don't have a fucking clue
Lyrics submitted by iTempir
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based on a philosophical term douche bag
First of all, it's not Jon who sings this song, he is out of the band... it's Kurt now.
But here is what I got...
From the crawlspace under the floor. Turned away from your front door. I'm in your memories. I'm in your memories. Don't turn your back on me, I'm part of what you used to be. Don't turn your back on me. Don't turn your back on me.
Your flying on the stratosphere, Forget the people that brought you here. Your flying on the stratosphere, Forget the people that brought you here.
Shimmy Shimmy, why would you? Got a lot to do, got a lot to lose. Shimmy Shimmy, why would you? Got a lot to do, got a lot to lose.
(I'll treat you well, but you wanted him to change) Ooooo ahhhh ahhh (I'll treat you well, but you wanted him to change) Ooooo ahhhh ahhh
Your flying on the stratosphere, Forget the people that brought you here. Your flying on the stratosphere, Forget the people that brought you here.
Shimmy Shimmy, why would you? Got a lot to do, got a lot to lose. Shimmy Shimmy, why would you? Got a lot to do, got a lot to lose.
Mikespunches, You epic fail. You did nice on the lyrics though. Jon recorded in the album. He just quit afterwards.
mikespuches got them exactly how I heard them.
But according to kurt, Jon is just gone for this tour cause his Lymes and Acid Reflux.
My bad, I thought he was talking about Jonny Craig.
Will told me that he got tired of touring. I trust Will.
Ahh okay. But yeah, sadly enough, Jons awesome fucking screams are gone. =[
Not gone --he's still doing the album version of each song.
Lazy, amirite?
"You fly around the stratosphere"
My bad to the last comment "You fly along* the stratosphere"
And also the first part says "To the reef on your front door" and it also sounds like Jon says " Shimmy, Shimmy my way down underground"