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"
Malory used to wear flowery clothes
Hobnobbin' with the snobs at the gallery shows
Now, I know what you doing when you powder your nose
I could've done something looking back I suppose
Here comes Jimmy, way too skinny
Down one-forty from about two-fifty
Hanging out on the wrong side of the city
I used to have pity now I don't have any
Standing on the corner in the cloth tube top
Bleach blond hair and the botched boob job
Hollywood Holly say she'll top you off
But that's the kind of talk girl that got you shot
[Say oh]
I ain't workin' no more
[C'mon now, hey]
I wanna sleep all day
[And the song goes oh]
We can't take it no more
Don't worry 'bout it man
There's pills for everything
Brimstone fire, a new gold chain
Cigarette lighters and cook cocaine
There's pills for everything
Brimstone fire, and new gold chain
Cigarette lighters and cook cocaine
There's pills for everything
I wanna get up
I wanna get down
I wanna feel so good so bad
I don't want it around
I need to get up
I need to be free
I need to feel so good so bad
i need to believe
[Say oh]
I ain't workin' no more
[C'mon now hey]
I wanna sleep all day
[And the song goes oh]
We can't take it no more
Don't worry 'bout it man [haha]
There's pills for everything
Sleeping on the futon
Alligator boots on
Waiting for a friend of mine
Some they never move on
Wait around too long
End up left behind
Sleeping on the futon
Alligator boots on
Waiting for a friend of mine
Some they never move on
Wait around too long
End up left behind
Sleeping on the futon
Alligator boots on
Waiting for a friend of mine
Some they never move on
They wait around too long
End up left behind
I wanna get up
I wanna get down
I wanna feel so good so bad
I don't want it around
I need to get up
I need to be free
I need to get them, God damn
Pills far away from me
[Oh come on, say oh]
I ain't workin' no more
[And the song goes hey]
I wanna sleep all day
[Say oh]
We can't take it no more
Don't worry 'bout it man [haha]
There's pills for everything
Brimstone fire, a new gold chain
Cigarette lighters and cook cocaine
Brimstone fire, a new gold chain
Cigarette lighters and cook cocaine
Brimstone fire, a new gold chain
Cigarette lighters and cook cocaine
Brimstone fire, a new gold chain
Cigarette lighters and cook cocaine
[Please, that hurts, don't do it any more]
Are you gonna be on my side if I let you up?]
[Sure, I'm on your side. just let me up, I'll do anything you say.]
[You're on my side]
[I'm on your side]
[Okay let's go find the other fellas]
Hobnobbin' with the snobs at the gallery shows
Now, I know what you doing when you powder your nose
I could've done something looking back I suppose
Here comes Jimmy, way too skinny
Down one-forty from about two-fifty
Hanging out on the wrong side of the city
I used to have pity now I don't have any
Standing on the corner in the cloth tube top
Bleach blond hair and the botched boob job
Hollywood Holly say she'll top you off
But that's the kind of talk girl that got you shot
[Say oh]
I ain't workin' no more
[C'mon now, hey]
I wanna sleep all day
[And the song goes oh]
We can't take it no more
Don't worry 'bout it man
There's pills for everything
Brimstone fire, a new gold chain
Cigarette lighters and cook cocaine
There's pills for everything
Brimstone fire, and new gold chain
Cigarette lighters and cook cocaine
There's pills for everything
I wanna get up
I wanna get down
I wanna feel so good so bad
I don't want it around
I need to get up
I need to be free
I need to feel so good so bad
i need to believe
[Say oh]
I ain't workin' no more
[C'mon now hey]
I wanna sleep all day
[And the song goes oh]
We can't take it no more
Don't worry 'bout it man [haha]
There's pills for everything
Sleeping on the futon
Alligator boots on
Waiting for a friend of mine
Some they never move on
Wait around too long
End up left behind
Sleeping on the futon
Alligator boots on
Waiting for a friend of mine
Some they never move on
Wait around too long
End up left behind
Sleeping on the futon
Alligator boots on
Waiting for a friend of mine
Some they never move on
They wait around too long
End up left behind
I wanna get up
I wanna get down
I wanna feel so good so bad
I don't want it around
I need to get up
I need to be free
I need to get them, God damn
Pills far away from me
[Oh come on, say oh]
I ain't workin' no more
[And the song goes hey]
I wanna sleep all day
[Say oh]
We can't take it no more
Don't worry 'bout it man [haha]
There's pills for everything
Brimstone fire, a new gold chain
Cigarette lighters and cook cocaine
Brimstone fire, a new gold chain
Cigarette lighters and cook cocaine
Brimstone fire, a new gold chain
Cigarette lighters and cook cocaine
Brimstone fire, a new gold chain
Cigarette lighters and cook cocaine
[Please, that hurts, don't do it any more]
Are you gonna be on my side if I let you up?]
[Sure, I'm on your side. just let me up, I'll do anything you say.]
[You're on my side]
[I'm on your side]
[Okay let's go find the other fellas]
Lyrics submitted by zippygutterslug, edited by fatswallenberg
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in this song a cocaine dealer tries to convince himself and his customers that doing the substance is fine, and that addiction isn't a problem. many addicts use various pills to fight the side effects of withdrawal in an attempt to make quitting easier:
[Don't worry 'bout it, man, there's pills for everything.]
however, while he clearly convinced malory, jimmy, and holly, he acknowledges that cocaine use isn't nearly as easy to control as he made it out to be, that he has created an awful impact on their lives. furthermore, he doesn't care:
[I could have done something looking back, I suppose]
sounds awfully apathetic, &
[I used to have pity, now I don't have any.]
makes it very clear. he's in it for the drugs & money, and doesn't care who's livelihood he crushes while obtaining them.
[I wanna get up I wanna get down I wanna feel so good so bad I don't want it around
I need to get up I need to be free I need to get them God damn Pills far away from me]
he also acknowledges that pills haven't done much for himself, either, and that he struggles with addiction as well. he wants to stop taking the pills, and instead get some blow in his system.
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