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"
Who really know what rights all the wrongs anyway
Who really cares what people do or say
No matter where this life takes me
Ill never let it compromise
To much luck to bet it on do or die
Cause I've seen everything that I could see
And now I can say goodbye today
With all I know
Its time I said goodbye
Today is a good day to die
Lived by the rules you that you gave me and fell apart
All the wrong turns down a dead end street so far
I stretched my wings and breath in different day
Alone and broken is the price I pay
But that's OK
I've seen everything that I could see
And now I can say goodbye today
With all I know
Its time I said goodbye
Today is a good day to die
Never thought life?
Taking all I can take
It's time to say goodbye
It's a good day to die
Cause I've seen everything that I could see
And now I can say goodbye today
With all I know
Its time I said goodbye
Today is a good day to die
Who really cares what people do or say
No matter where this life takes me
Ill never let it compromise
To much luck to bet it on do or die
Cause I've seen everything that I could see
And now I can say goodbye today
With all I know
Its time I said goodbye
Today is a good day to die
Lived by the rules you that you gave me and fell apart
All the wrong turns down a dead end street so far
I stretched my wings and breath in different day
Alone and broken is the price I pay
But that's OK
I've seen everything that I could see
And now I can say goodbye today
With all I know
Its time I said goodbye
Today is a good day to die
Never thought life?
Taking all I can take
It's time to say goodbye
It's a good day to die
Cause I've seen everything that I could see
And now I can say goodbye today
With all I know
Its time I said goodbye
Today is a good day to die
Lyrics submitted by forever smacked
Good Day to Die Lyrics as written by Rob Merrill James Shannon Larkin
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Great version of a great song,
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Could someone explain me some words?
"Who really knows what rights all the wrongs anyway" What does it mean? Does he ask: what does right all the wrongs? Or he means by this - Rights are all the wrongs. "what" means "that" or not?
"With all I know" What does he mean by "all"? Everyone or everything he knows? He says goodbye to everyone he knows or "It's time to say goodbye with everything I know"?
Good Day TO Die = End of Godsmack
Sadly, after listening to all the interviews and watching the latest episode (#8) of the Wepisodes it has become very evident that Sully just does not want to continue keep Godsmack alive anymore. "I stretch my wings and breathe in a different day" The lyrics of this song make it very clear that he has moved on and wants to pursue other musical aspects...The song "What if?", from Sully's own mouth explained how the song is about wanting to call it all quiets and wondering what would happen to him if he did.
The fact that they also have not yet booked a tour after a major CD release is very strange too. I certainly hope this is not the end of Godsmack but unfortunately from the the sings it looks like it might just be that way.
Shannon has said in an interview that they are planning a tour in fall and the band is as strong as they have ever been. You are clearly mistaken.
That's great! Believe me, I want more than anything to be wrong. As for the as strong as they have ever been...I'm not too sure about that. Godsmack has always had their drama. They're New Englanders...'nuff said. haha Although this time around I hear the heat backstage is pretty bad.
I watched also and in episode Sully talked how you don't know what future will bring...And this song must be saying how he won't have regrets if his life ended
I watched also and in episode Sully talked how you don't know what future will bring...And this song must be saying how he won't have regrets if his life ended
I watched also and in episode Sully talked how you don't know what future will bring...And this song must be saying how he won't have regrets if his life ended
I watched also and in episode Sully talked how you don't know what future will bring...And this song must be saying how he won't have regrets if his life ended
I watched also and in episode Sully talked how you don't know what future will bring...And this song must be saying how he won't have regrets if his life ended
I watched also and in episode Sully talked how you don't know what future will bring...And this song must be saying how he won't have regrets if his life ended