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"
I am good, I am grounded
Davy says that I look taller
I can't get my head around it
I keep feeling smaller and smaller
I need my girl
I need my girl
Remember when you lost your shit and
Drove the car into the garden
You got out and said, "I'm sorry"
To the vines and no one saw it
I need my girl
I need my girl
I'm under the gun again
I know I was a Forty-Five percenter then
I know I was a lot of things
But I am good, I am grounded
Davy says that I look taller
I can't get my head around it
I keep feeling smaller and smaller
I need my girl
I need my girl
There's some things that I should never
Laugh about in front of family
I'll try to call you from the party
It's full of punks and cannonballers
I need my girl
I need my girl
I'm under the gun again
I know I was a Forty-Five percenter then
I know I was a lot of things
But I am good and I am grounded
Davy says that I look taller
But I can't get my head around it
I keep feeling smaller and smaller
I keep feeling smaller and smaller
I keep feeling smaller and smaller
Davy says that I look taller
I can't get my head around it
I keep feeling smaller and smaller
I need my girl
I need my girl
Remember when you lost your shit and
Drove the car into the garden
You got out and said, "I'm sorry"
To the vines and no one saw it
I need my girl
I need my girl
I'm under the gun again
I know I was a Forty-Five percenter then
I know I was a lot of things
But I am good, I am grounded
Davy says that I look taller
I can't get my head around it
I keep feeling smaller and smaller
I need my girl
I need my girl
There's some things that I should never
Laugh about in front of family
I'll try to call you from the party
It's full of punks and cannonballers
I need my girl
I need my girl
I'm under the gun again
I know I was a Forty-Five percenter then
I know I was a lot of things
But I am good and I am grounded
Davy says that I look taller
But I can't get my head around it
I keep feeling smaller and smaller
I keep feeling smaller and smaller
I keep feeling smaller and smaller
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Am I the only one who thinks it's:
"I know I was a 45 percenter then"?
Which, after googling the term '45 percenter', could make it a political reference to the Obama administration?
I could have the wrong end of the stick though, as I'm British and know little of American politics.
I'm almost positive the real lyrics are "45 percenter then"
I think this is spot on. 45 percenter is definitely the line.<br /> <br /> The National were big supporters of Obama, both in 2008 and 2012. The 45 percenter was a pushed phrase by conservatives referring to the people who approved of what Obama was doing.<br /> <br /> It could be something completely different, or it could just be trying to nail down a specific time period. It could also be showing slight dissatisfaction with the administration. (Although they obviously still preferred Obama to the other option, seeing that they campaigned for him in 2012.)
I'm pretty sure that "45 percenter" refers to conservative trope that 45% of Americans have lost their job since Obama became president. For example, see the following links, where the same piece of writing is quoted underneath the title "Are you a 45 percenter, & what's your impression of Obama’s economy compared to income & livelihood under Bush?"<br /> answers.yahoo.com/question/index<br /> ihav.net/vb/politics/you-45-percenter-whats-your-impression-obama-s-economy-compared-1597257.html<br /> <br /> Incidentally, I have no idea if this claim is true or whether such a number is atypical of recession-stricken economies. I think it's a nearly totally irrelevant number. Seems to me that the only important factors are the unemployment rate and the quality and pay of the jobs people are taking. 100% of people could lose their jobs over a five-year period, but if the unemployment rate is low and they are taking satisfying, fulfilling, high-wage jobs, it's not clear that there's any problem at all.
The political reference seems a bit of a stretch since the song seems to be about a guy losing his relationship. I think it means he was only trying less than 50%, but now realizes he needs her and wishes to give a larger effort. It seems a theme throughout is someone who has made a lot of mistakes based on a lack of effort/social graces and alcoholism and is deciding he needs to put forth more effort and hope it isn't too late.
they have deeper hearts then politics here...
I know i was a 45%er then is what i hear and it reminds me of regretting being less than "half-ass" in the effort I put into a relationship that I took for granted at the time but in being lonely and going through a difficult time, regretting having that attitude back then, just my take