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"
Subtight turned on a dime
In the sultry west-coast night
How could you lost your roll
Amongst the hopeful and the drunk
You showed me so much
You showed me so much
Took us to the new house, speeding along
In a green machine
Riding the wake of another
Once a week
You showed me so much
Oh you showed me so much
Those days are now long gone
Wish I had your picture
Never been able to be true
So I wanted, I wanted
I wanted to help you
I wanted to
And I wanted to help you
And I have to admit
Things got weird for a bit
And I scream for you
There goes my man
And I scream for you
There goes my man
And I scream for you
There goes my man
In the sultry west-coast night
How could you lost your roll
Amongst the hopeful and the drunk
You showed me so much
You showed me so much
Took us to the new house, speeding along
In a green machine
Riding the wake of another
Once a week
You showed me so much
Oh you showed me so much
Those days are now long gone
Wish I had your picture
Never been able to be true
So I wanted, I wanted
I wanted to help you
I wanted to
And I wanted to help you
And I have to admit
Things got weird for a bit
And I scream for you
There goes my man
And I scream for you
There goes my man
And I scream for you
There goes my man
Lyrics submitted by jworldwide
Albatross Lyrics as written by Peter Green
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Capitol CMG Publishing, Songtrust Ave, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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i need to know the chords man i just want to jam this song out it's so good
The song is not particularly complicated. It sounds like it's based off the A major scale, so I will use this. The opening riff sounds like A, Asus4, and Amaj7 (melody note); if you wanted to jazz it up, you could do Amaj7sus4, so find that chord and work out the riff from there. The main part is mostly A and D major chords, with the noisy blast being based off Dmaj7.<br /> <br /> All the bass notes that do not match the root of the chord are essentially slash or melodic bass parts. For example, there are several instances of A/C#, which is an A on the guitar and C# (the major third of the A chord) on the bass.<br /> <br /> That should get you started; the rest is up to you.
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There is an instructional on how to play it.
I think this is about someone who liked gangsta rap as a young person, and perhaps even found the rappers and thugs to be sexually attractive (based on the fact that most of them were male, and it is a female singing the song), but also wished to show them a better way of life, in the way that some people think they can change their romantic partners, or that their romantic partners will change.
I'm American (and closer to the Gulf Coast, I might add), so I'm basing this partly off the "west coast" line; I may be wrong, but gangsta rap originally featured L.A. groups and artists before it became a national-level thing. The band is Canadian, so there may be something specifically Canadian west coast referenced here that I wouldn't know about.
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