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"
Oh
On a borrowed mattress you were stopping time
I've been watching you
I've been watching you
For hours and hours before you knew, ooh
You are the satin noose
I've been saving up to buy you.
You are the polished-pearl grips of your fathers .45,
Give me all those gory details,
Do tell, do tell.
So cut me up, Jenny,
Well, cut me up gently
I took full advantage of
Being taken full advantage of
Yeah, I took what I could get
And eventually it took the place of love
The match-makers in heaven,
Oh, they've got a one-track mind
So in our case, I don't think they mind
Alright...
Finger prints, a perfect match
And no you didn't have to leave the way you did
I've been watching you
I've been watching you
Most times you never knew.
You are a Sunday afternoon
With nothing to do
You are Manhattan in June
As the population's wearing next to nothing.
So cut me up, Jenny
Well, cut me up gently.
I took full advantage of
Being taken full advantage of
Yeah, I took what I could get
And eventually it took the place of love
The match-makers in heaven,
Oh, they got a one-track mind
So in our case, I don't think they mind
No in our case, I don't think they mind
So cut me up, Jenny
Well, cut me up gently
Yeah
Talking about our prayer
Is it gonna make me swear?
Yeah, move on, right on
Give me all those gory details,
Do tell, do tell.
So cut me up, Jenny,
Well, cut me up gently.
I took full advantage of
Being taken full advantage of
Yeah, I took what I could get
And eventually it took the place of love
The match-makers in heaven,
Oh, they've got a one-track mind
So in our case, I don't think they mind
So cut me up, Jenny
(Cut me up Jenny)
Cut me up gently
(Cut me up gently)
So cut me up, Jenny
(Cut me up Jenny)
Well, cut me up gently
(Cut me up gently)
So cut me up, Jenny
(Cut me up, Jenny)
Cut me up, Jenny
(Cut me up, Jenny)
Well, cut me up gently
(Cut me up gently)
Cut me up, Jenny
Cut me up gently
On a borrowed mattress you were stopping time
I've been watching you
I've been watching you
For hours and hours before you knew, ooh
You are the satin noose
I've been saving up to buy you.
You are the polished-pearl grips of your fathers .45,
Give me all those gory details,
Do tell, do tell.
So cut me up, Jenny,
Well, cut me up gently
I took full advantage of
Being taken full advantage of
Yeah, I took what I could get
And eventually it took the place of love
The match-makers in heaven,
Oh, they've got a one-track mind
So in our case, I don't think they mind
Alright...
Finger prints, a perfect match
And no you didn't have to leave the way you did
I've been watching you
I've been watching you
Most times you never knew.
You are a Sunday afternoon
With nothing to do
You are Manhattan in June
As the population's wearing next to nothing.
So cut me up, Jenny
Well, cut me up gently.
I took full advantage of
Being taken full advantage of
Yeah, I took what I could get
And eventually it took the place of love
The match-makers in heaven,
Oh, they got a one-track mind
So in our case, I don't think they mind
No in our case, I don't think they mind
So cut me up, Jenny
Well, cut me up gently
Yeah
Talking about our prayer
Is it gonna make me swear?
Yeah, move on, right on
Give me all those gory details,
Do tell, do tell.
So cut me up, Jenny,
Well, cut me up gently.
I took full advantage of
Being taken full advantage of
Yeah, I took what I could get
And eventually it took the place of love
The match-makers in heaven,
Oh, they've got a one-track mind
So in our case, I don't think they mind
So cut me up, Jenny
(Cut me up Jenny)
Cut me up gently
(Cut me up gently)
So cut me up, Jenny
(Cut me up Jenny)
Well, cut me up gently
(Cut me up gently)
So cut me up, Jenny
(Cut me up, Jenny)
Cut me up, Jenny
(Cut me up, Jenny)
Well, cut me up gently
(Cut me up gently)
Cut me up, Jenny
Cut me up gently
Lyrics submitted by matthew_tm
Cut Me Up Jenny Lyrics as written by Edward Reyes Adam Burbank Lazzara
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Such a great song. I think jenny isn't 1 girl but represents alot of different ones. I just think its about how adam will get fucked over in a relationship and use it as material to write songs and get rich. "I took full advantage of being taken full advantage of" thats what that means I think, and when he says eventually it took the place of love he is saying how he's been doing this so long that he cant even maintain a relationship kinda like he subconsiously wants shit to go bad so he'll have material. I could be wrong though anyone else have any takes on what its about?
Loadertoad wrote:<br /> "Such a great song. I think jenny isn't 1 girl but represents alot of different ones. I just think its about how adam will get fucked over in a relationship and use it as material to write songs and get rich. "I took full advantage of being taken full advantage of" thats what that means I think, and when he says eventually it took the place of love he is saying how he's been doing this so long that he cant even maintain a relationship kinda like he subconsiously wants shit to go bad so he'll have material. I could be wrong though anyone else have any takes on what its about."<br /> <br /> I think the "I took full advantage of being taken full advantage of" line means he knows he is being used and the girl isnt into him. She just wants to cry and complain to someone, he is willing to listen. Regardless of that, he wants to be around her so badly he'll take whatever time he can have with her.
Agreed with Bishop Hammer