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"
Razor tea-cups and tip top craic
of the crooked, Backstreet Lovers and sons
Lawless law men walk the streets of
Dirty meadows of foul mouthed mothers and guns
Brick blacked-up kids mugged me the day I
ran off with your sister
a young school maid, caught up in a world of
Backstreet Lovers.
Lovers and sons, I waved her away to a friend
at least that's what she said.
Rotting teeth of a grubby gran
fill the alleys of the stolen roll-ups and blunts
a skin-head dad came cap in hand
with a duster and flash of switch blade fun
still on the dole, though the picket was broken
a soiled age ago.
But he's caught up, caught up in a world of
Backstreet Lovers
Lovers and sons, I waved her away to a friend
at least that's what she said
tangled in the roots and tangled in the weeds
of a concrete jungle came that girl from Leeds
in torn dress and tights,
she ain't no slag.
i won her over with a '40 bag.
of the crooked, Backstreet Lovers and sons
Lawless law men walk the streets of
Dirty meadows of foul mouthed mothers and guns
Brick blacked-up kids mugged me the day I
ran off with your sister
a young school maid, caught up in a world of
Backstreet Lovers.
Lovers and sons, I waved her away to a friend
at least that's what she said.
Rotting teeth of a grubby gran
fill the alleys of the stolen roll-ups and blunts
a skin-head dad came cap in hand
with a duster and flash of switch blade fun
still on the dole, though the picket was broken
a soiled age ago.
But he's caught up, caught up in a world of
Backstreet Lovers
Lovers and sons, I waved her away to a friend
at least that's what she said
tangled in the roots and tangled in the weeds
of a concrete jungle came that girl from Leeds
in torn dress and tights,
she ain't no slag.
i won her over with a '40 bag.
Lyrics submitted by interpretationdechanson
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I damn love this song but it is relly hard for me to understand it 'cause there's a lot of slang, basically drugs and weed. Razor tea-cups - tea-cups are good times, but what does razor mean? Lawless law men walk the streets of dirty meadows of foul mouthed mothers and guns - these words mean nothing to me altogether Brick blacked-up kids - blacked up is 'bout skin colour. isn't it? but what does brick mean? Rotting teeth of a grubby gran - that must have some undermeaning with a duster and flash of switch blade fun - what is a duster in this very case and what has a flash to do with a knife? picket was broken soiled age ago - is a special picket meant here, and how long ago was it, soiled age ago)? '40 bag - is it full of weed?
If you see this, please spen a minute of your time, i can't sleep at night wondering what all this means.
"Lawless law men walk the streets of dirty meadows of foul mouthed mothers and guns" - probably means Police or law enforcement walking through the english version of what we call ghettos (where people are rude and dirty) and wanting either drugs or prostitutes.<br /> <br /> "Brick blacked-up kids" is probably kids high on or using black tar heroin or kids that are dirty and have been beaten with bricks<br /> <br /> "Rotting teeth of a grubby gran" probably just refers to the dirtiness of the place and the lack of self-respect and care its inhabitants have<br /> <br /> "with a duster and flash of switch blade fun" The duster is a long coat kind of like a trench coat and the flash of switchblade fun probably means he is trying to fool and scare people or threaten them with the knife (this man is kinda like a stereotypical maniac)<br /> <br /> "picket was broken soiled age ago" the picket is a fence, and you know how white picket fences usually represent a house in a nice neighborhood with a picture perfect family inside, well that white picket fence was broken ( and most likely it is dirty and not white anymore, paint peeling ext..) a soiled age ago just means a long time ago, the whole phrase means that the place has deteriorated and has been left in shambles (it is now a slum), whereas along time ago it might have been nice <br /> <br /> a 40' Refers to a bag of weed that costs $40
Hi, IluhaRus, you just need to let your imagination fly...
-Razor tea-cups: I see dangerous fun times. -Lawless law men: policemen without qualms -walk the streets of dirty meadows: patrolling suburbs streets, near the countryside, outside the big city. -of foul mouthed mothers and guns: dangerous suburbs with low education people. -Brick blacked-up kids: Those old english industrial towns, with soot covered bricks, where kids playing on the streets get their dirty faces. -Rotting teeth of a grubby gran: she's a granny... -duster: gabardine, but like from the far west. -flash of switch blade fun: a switchblade is retractable, when it springs, the blade reflects the light, you can see it immediately... and it's fun for mobsters, as you see in West Side Story "fight dance". -picket was broken soiled age ago: the knife tip broke so long long ago... -40 bag: maybe the big beer belly that many men have at their 40s.
Those are my 2 cents, trying to think out of my Spanish box!