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"
Gin, always the gin, always take one on the chin
The devil dogs and scorpions peel away and wear my skin
Smokeless flame, the common name
Less than the angels but more of the same
No paradise, the grateful will lay their claim
Whether the intentions are violent or just mundane
With the wind he disappeared
Confirming everything that I feared
The time passed is shown by the length of his beard
Solomon stands, dead on his feet
Waiting for termites to resolve his conceit
In the mountains, in the seas, in the air waits the disease
We are not Gods, death comes to us all
But tonight I'm invincible; tomorrow I'll crawl.
In the mountains, in the seas, in the air waits the disease
The gin in this bottle, just don't let him drown
Next lesson you swallow, might be hard to keep down
Taste the penalty of the blazing fire
Taste the penalty, sing with the Devil's choir
Gin, always the gin!
Never thick and never thin
Thicker than blood, less than kin
The rattle trap night ends where it begins
The devil dogs and scorpions peel away and wear my skin
Smokeless flame, the common name
Less than the angels but more of the same
No paradise, the grateful will lay their claim
Whether the intentions are violent or just mundane
With the wind he disappeared
Confirming everything that I feared
The time passed is shown by the length of his beard
Solomon stands, dead on his feet
Waiting for termites to resolve his conceit
In the mountains, in the seas, in the air waits the disease
We are not Gods, death comes to us all
But tonight I'm invincible; tomorrow I'll crawl.
In the mountains, in the seas, in the air waits the disease
The gin in this bottle, just don't let him drown
Next lesson you swallow, might be hard to keep down
Taste the penalty of the blazing fire
Taste the penalty, sing with the Devil's choir
Gin, always the gin!
Never thick and never thin
Thicker than blood, less than kin
The rattle trap night ends where it begins
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I could be wrong, but I think the following sets of lyrics need to be corrected:
The word "Djinn" should be "gin." I'm almost 100% positive this song is about getting drunk.
"Solomon's stance! dead on his feet" should be "Solomon stands dead on his feet" assuming Solomon is what is being said.
"We are not gods, that goes to us all, but tonight I'm invincible to all who oppose" should be "We are not gods. Death comes to us all, but tonight I'm invincible; tomorrow I'll crawl."
thanks bra! i'll fix it.
Actually, perhaps there could be a double meaning here. While I agree that 'gin' could be correct, a little research into Jinn sheds a little light. In Islamic teachings Jinn are basically genies that were said to be made of a "smokeless flame". They were held in Solomon's service as his slaves. Solomon died leaning upright on his staff and the Jinn believed him to sill be alive. Thus, they continued to work until a creature came out of the ground and gnawed at Solomon's staff, causing him to fall over and revealing his death.
I definitely think it's not 'gin'
As soon as I saw Solomon, I instantly thought Djinn as well. Probably a play on words, but they came from bottles as well. <br /> <br /> "Then, when We decreed (Solomon's) death, nothing showed them his death except a little worm of the earth, which kept (slowly) gnawing away at his staff: so when he fell down, the jinn saw plainly that if they had known the unseen, they would not have tarried in the humiliating Penalty (of their Task)." Qur’an 34:14)<br /> <br />