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"
We smash the window
Popo don’t fuck around
As their cameras take pictures of us
We just laugh
We laugh
Because they can’t stop this
We can feel it in our bones
The future’s ours, yes it is
We can feel it in our bones
We drop the lighter into the gas
If the whole world is watching us
Let them watch us
Let them watch
They can’t stop this
We can feel it in our bones
The future’s ours, yes it is
We can feel it in our bones
Popo don’t fuck around
As their cameras take pictures of us
We just laugh
We laugh
Because they can’t stop this
We can feel it in our bones
The future’s ours, yes it is
We can feel it in our bones
We drop the lighter into the gas
If the whole world is watching us
Let them watch us
Let them watch
They can’t stop this
We can feel it in our bones
The future’s ours, yes it is
We can feel it in our bones
Lyrics submitted by coloursallofthetime
Kettling Lyrics as written by Kele Okereke Gordon Moakes
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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seems to be a pretty straightforward song about the London riots in 2011, which originated as a protest against the killing of a man by the police and turned into thousands of people (mainly teenagers) running around smashing their own cities up and stealing trainers.
'as the cameras take pictures of us we just laugh' - no one seemed bothered by CCTV or journalists - many rioters posed with the items they'd looted, leading to their arrests
'we drop the lighter into the gas' - various shops were burnt to the ground in a number of arson attacks around London
'if the whole world is watching us let them watch' - it felt like the eyes of the world were on the riots at the time. many of those involved said they were rioting because they felt ignored or obsolete to a government and society that was obsessed with other things - now they were (inter)national news, they were proud
'the future's ours' - hints at the fact it was pretty much only kids who were rioting
and the title of the song, Kettling, is a reference to the fact that rioters were kettled by the police in an attempt to control the large crowds that were involved.
wow, way too much explanation for a song that's pretty clear, but it's an awesome song so never mind
Cool I didn't know what it was about, now I do thanks