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"
Pre>intro: am / am+9 / em7 / dm7 (twice)
Am+9 means hammer the be, that is, am 577555 am+9 577557
Am
I'm in a trailer with some white trash.
Em7 dm7
They're drinkin' beer and smokin' grass
Am
There's a dumb chick with peroxide hair.
Em7 dm7
She's got axl rose tattooed on her ass
Am
They're holding me up like a trophy in a hall
Em7 dm7
Like a deer skin or a bear's head they bought from the mall
Am
I act like I'm with them but I'm behind a wall
Em7 dm7
Behind a wall in the darkness
Chorus
Am am+9 em7 dm7
Impenetrable I can't get inside of it no
Am am+9 em7
Impenetrable I ca - ah - ah - ah - an't
Am
Impenetrable (riff)
I wake up in a foreign bed.
The hotel is empty the porters are dead
The maids are diseased but the manager said:
I'll buy you a drink in the bar pal
Because you're our last customer. you're our last hope
The city's deserted, the government's broke
I act like I'm with him but I'm ready to bolt
Out through the door into the darkness
Chorus repeat
Guitar solos over verse
Out in the darkness the new year's crowd howl
It's the same celebration for 20 years now
I found myself there once alone in a crowd
And the rules haven't changed for a minute
They're hoisting an effigy up on a pole
It's someone I remember, it's someone I know
I can't place the face but when the gasoline flows
I feel the flames lick round my ankles
Fmaj7 dm7 fmaj7 am
Aaaah oh aaah oh
Fmaj7 dm7
Aaaah oh
Chorus repeat /pre>
Am+9 means hammer the be, that is, am 577555 am+9 577557
Am
I'm in a trailer with some white trash.
Em7 dm7
They're drinkin' beer and smokin' grass
Am
There's a dumb chick with peroxide hair.
Em7 dm7
She's got axl rose tattooed on her ass
Am
They're holding me up like a trophy in a hall
Em7 dm7
Like a deer skin or a bear's head they bought from the mall
Am
I act like I'm with them but I'm behind a wall
Em7 dm7
Behind a wall in the darkness
Chorus
Am am+9 em7 dm7
Impenetrable I can't get inside of it no
Am am+9 em7
Impenetrable I ca - ah - ah - ah - an't
Am
Impenetrable (riff)
I wake up in a foreign bed.
The hotel is empty the porters are dead
The maids are diseased but the manager said:
I'll buy you a drink in the bar pal
Because you're our last customer. you're our last hope
The city's deserted, the government's broke
I act like I'm with him but I'm ready to bolt
Out through the door into the darkness
Chorus repeat
Guitar solos over verse
Out in the darkness the new year's crowd howl
It's the same celebration for 20 years now
I found myself there once alone in a crowd
And the rules haven't changed for a minute
They're hoisting an effigy up on a pole
It's someone I remember, it's someone I know
I can't place the face but when the gasoline flows
I feel the flames lick round my ankles
Fmaj7 dm7 fmaj7 am
Aaaah oh aaah oh
Fmaj7 dm7
Aaaah oh
Chorus repeat /pre>
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Impenetrable Lyrics as written by Graham Thomas Parker
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