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"
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Look! he drank straight from the faucet!
HOLY SHIT HE'S FUCKIN LOST IT!
We only enjoy fine sparkling water!
FED SOMETHING ADHESIVE TO YOUR DAUGHTER!
Called me old-fashioned,but I think trains kick ass!
I don't need hot wheels to get to class!
What the hell is wrong with him!?
HIS HIS HAIRS SO LONG IT NEEDS A TRIM!
I heard he packs a lot in those bloomers,
IT'S PROBABLY TRUE LIKE ALL THE OTHER RUMORS!
You think you're modern,
But that taste won't last (It just won't last)
And everything you own,
Will be (Will be)...
The fucking past. (the fucking past)
Cynicism save me.
Turn me around and march me back up the sidewalk to my
door.
Take me back inside and throw my trench-coat on the
floor.
Lead me back into my bedroom,
And make me put my cloths back on.
Grab the Mag-Lite, get the grappling hook,
Lets fine the bottom of this cave and close the book!
The salt on my lips is an enzyme,
That metabolizes reality,
To fuel these dirty delusions!
You're leading me to these CONCLUSIONS!
The organs exploding, IN MY TORSO!
Like a series of city blocks,
Giving in to a nuclear blast.
And now my pressure relief valve is activated;
Maybe I should stop holding my breath.
I'll prove it, Come sit next to me.
Tell me what you do at work;
You half-hearted intimacy.
We'll be like gay actors,
Over and out,,,
Having the kind of sex sacrificial virgins,
Fantasize about.
But if I knew your name it would have to be for
charity!
JUST TRY ME! TEST ME! RELEASE ME!
Cynicism reassure me that,
If we only had less clothing and better light.
It would all just be an embarrassing misunderstanding.
The sudden silences, aren't the crash,
Where lips should be.
If this were a contract i wouldn't sign.
Look! he drank straight from the faucet!
HOLY SHIT HE'S FUCKIN LOST IT!
We only enjoy fine sparkling water!
FED SOMETHING ADHESIVE TO YOUR DAUGHTER!
Called me old-fashioned,but I think trains kick ass!
I don't need hot wheels to get to class!
What the hell is wrong with him!?
HIS HIS HAIRS SO LONG IT NEEDS A TRIM!
I heard he packs a lot in those bloomers,
IT'S PROBABLY TRUE LIKE ALL THE OTHER RUMORS!
You think you're modern,
But that taste won't last (It just won't last)
And everything you own,
Will be (Will be)...
The fucking past. (the fucking past)
Cynicism save me.
Turn me around and march me back up the sidewalk to my
door.
Take me back inside and throw my trench-coat on the
floor.
Lead me back into my bedroom,
And make me put my cloths back on.
Grab the Mag-Lite, get the grappling hook,
Lets fine the bottom of this cave and close the book!
The salt on my lips is an enzyme,
That metabolizes reality,
To fuel these dirty delusions!
You're leading me to these CONCLUSIONS!
The organs exploding, IN MY TORSO!
Like a series of city blocks,
Giving in to a nuclear blast.
And now my pressure relief valve is activated;
Maybe I should stop holding my breath.
I'll prove it, Come sit next to me.
Tell me what you do at work;
You half-hearted intimacy.
We'll be like gay actors,
Over and out,,,
Having the kind of sex sacrificial virgins,
Fantasize about.
But if I knew your name it would have to be for
charity!
JUST TRY ME! TEST ME! RELEASE ME!
Cynicism reassure me that,
If we only had less clothing and better light.
It would all just be an embarrassing misunderstanding.
The sudden silences, aren't the crash,
Where lips should be.
If this were a contract i wouldn't sign.
Lyrics submitted by sadiesykes
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hehe, nice little argument up there guys... now does anyone know what the song means, i thought, maybe, like a guy going crazy for love so much that he decides to have a one night stand..and then after he does it,realizes that it wasn't true love and then the end part "If this were a contract i wouldn't sign", basically saying that if he knew this whole situation was gonna happen he wouldn't have do it. i don't know, just my view...
He is basically a kid who is getting criticized. Look he drank stright from the faucen we only enjoy fine sparkling water" he is doing things wrong. samw with his hair needs a trim" and "probally true like all the other rumors!" he is getting critized and he fights back by saying Called me old-fashioned,but I think trains kick ass!<br /> I don't need hot wheels to get to class!<br /> You think you're modern,<br /> But that taste won't last (It just won't last)<br /> And everything you own,<br /> Will be (Will be)...<br /> The fucking past. (the fucking past)<br /> He is saying the way he does things work out best for him and that he doesnt care what others want. the modern part is about trends. he is saying that they are just doing what is cool but it will soon be nothing because there will soon be a new trend
also when he says it everything you own will be the past it is a taunt.. he is sayin your buying all these nice things but it dun mean shit cause your going to stop using it soon which is why he thinks "trains kick ass" to him its not about whats in style but what gets the job done and will continue to get the job