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"
It was a long way out at sea
And it seemed like it might
Be a long time before we saw him again
And he could fly, just like birds on the wind
And his hair, was the coolest hair
And every day was four or five,
days and days and days and days and days and days
And the hours felt like the rocks that they used to build the pyramids
Milo is your best friend
He's your second cousin
All roads lead to...
He's the rising son
Milo is a long long way from home, yeah
Milo is a name you won't forget
Milo I haven't met, yet
In a cave below the ground
Way down, it's cold and its dark
but he knows his way around,
and the mazes of the underground are no match for him
But he looks like a traveler that hasn't showered in a while
And been living in the ground
Milo is your best friend
He's your second cousin
All roads lead to...
He's the rising son
Milo is a long long way from home, yeah
Milo is a name you won't forget
Milo I haven't met, yet
He's a bigger than life super hero
He's the captain of the football team
He's a quantum physicist
He's a molecular biologist
He's not in it for the money
He's a nice guy
And he speaks well
And I, would do well, to be more like him
Milo is your best friend
He's your second cousin
All roads lead to...
He's the rising son
Milo is a long long way from home, yeah
Milo is a name you won't forget
Milo I haven't met, yet
And it seemed like it might
Be a long time before we saw him again
And he could fly, just like birds on the wind
And his hair, was the coolest hair
And every day was four or five,
days and days and days and days and days and days
And the hours felt like the rocks that they used to build the pyramids
Milo is your best friend
He's your second cousin
All roads lead to...
He's the rising son
Milo is a long long way from home, yeah
Milo is a name you won't forget
Milo I haven't met, yet
In a cave below the ground
Way down, it's cold and its dark
but he knows his way around,
and the mazes of the underground are no match for him
But he looks like a traveler that hasn't showered in a while
And been living in the ground
Milo is your best friend
He's your second cousin
All roads lead to...
He's the rising son
Milo is a long long way from home, yeah
Milo is a name you won't forget
Milo I haven't met, yet
He's a bigger than life super hero
He's the captain of the football team
He's a quantum physicist
He's a molecular biologist
He's not in it for the money
He's a nice guy
And he speaks well
And I, would do well, to be more like him
Milo is your best friend
He's your second cousin
All roads lead to...
He's the rising son
Milo is a long long way from home, yeah
Milo is a name you won't forget
Milo I haven't met, yet
Lyrics submitted by Rapala46
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
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Well I saw on a live version on youtube that when his wife was pregnant she wanted to name their son-to-be Milo. Matt asked why and she replied with, "Because it's pretty." Matt didn't like the answer and they eventually decided on something else. He wrote this song after she suggested Milo.
I'm a strong believer in interpreting songs however you want to. When I first heard this song I got the idea that this guy, Milo, was that guy you know who was always the good guy in the group. Especially in the lines: "He's a nice guy And he speaks well And I, would do well, to be more like him." Just my ideas.
I think its about Christ..
@yogi.. <br /> I think so too especially "all roads lead to him" "He's the rising son"
I also saw the YouTube version and I have to say that his style of storytelling made it absolutely hilarious. I've been in love with this song for a very long time and I'm glad I finally found it to download, let alone on here. Fantastic song.