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"
Lady of the 'dam
Won't be a slave to the blonde
Or the culture of the popular
She won't, she won't
Sing at you I'll
Fly under radar tonight
Make deals with every devil in sight
I will, I will
'Cause I love, love, 'cause I love, love
You better than, you better than
My darkest sin
Russian hookers, and cheap gin
I think that I could be fine
If I could be Mary Jane Holland tonight
I think we'd have a good time
If you'd meet me and Mary Jane in Holland tonight
Mary, Jane, Holland (whoh-who)
Mary, Jane, Holland (whoh-who)
I don't like to boast
But our truffles are the most
Mad-magical in Amsterdam (she won't, she won't)
So if you have fear, Apollo sit on my lyre, and
Play hIm like a piano man (I will, I will)
'Cause I love, love, 'cause I love, love
You better than, you better than
My darkest sin
Russian hookers, and cheap gin
I think that I could be fine
If I could be Mary Jane Holland tonight
I think we'd have a good time
If you'd meet me and Mary Jane in Holland tonight
Mary, Jane, Holland (whoh-who)
Mary, Jane, Holland (whoh-who)
I know that mom and dad think I'm a mess
But it's alright, because
I am rich as piss
When I ignite
And put you in my mouth
The grass heats up my insides and my brunette starts to sprout
Introducing, ladies and gentleman, Mary Jane Holland
I think that I could be fine
If I could be Mary Jane Holland tonight
I think we'd have a good time
If you'd meet me and Mary Jane in Holland tonight
Mary, Jane, Holland (whoh-who)
Mary, Jane, Holland (whoh-who)
Mary, Jane, Holland (whoh-who)
Mary, Jane, Holland (whoh-who)
Won't be a slave to the blonde
Or the culture of the popular
She won't, she won't
Sing at you I'll
Fly under radar tonight
Make deals with every devil in sight
I will, I will
'Cause I love, love, 'cause I love, love
You better than, you better than
My darkest sin
Russian hookers, and cheap gin
I think that I could be fine
If I could be Mary Jane Holland tonight
I think we'd have a good time
If you'd meet me and Mary Jane in Holland tonight
Mary, Jane, Holland (whoh-who)
Mary, Jane, Holland (whoh-who)
I don't like to boast
But our truffles are the most
Mad-magical in Amsterdam (she won't, she won't)
So if you have fear, Apollo sit on my lyre, and
Play hIm like a piano man (I will, I will)
'Cause I love, love, 'cause I love, love
You better than, you better than
My darkest sin
Russian hookers, and cheap gin
I think that I could be fine
If I could be Mary Jane Holland tonight
I think we'd have a good time
If you'd meet me and Mary Jane in Holland tonight
Mary, Jane, Holland (whoh-who)
Mary, Jane, Holland (whoh-who)
I know that mom and dad think I'm a mess
But it's alright, because
I am rich as piss
When I ignite
And put you in my mouth
The grass heats up my insides and my brunette starts to sprout
Introducing, ladies and gentleman, Mary Jane Holland
I think that I could be fine
If I could be Mary Jane Holland tonight
I think we'd have a good time
If you'd meet me and Mary Jane in Holland tonight
Mary, Jane, Holland (whoh-who)
Mary, Jane, Holland (whoh-who)
Mary, Jane, Holland (whoh-who)
Mary, Jane, Holland (whoh-who)
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Mary Jane Holland Lyrics as written by Hugo Leclercq Stefani Germanotta
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Okay so I really love this song, especially the beat which is what I crave for in songs is a good beat, and it's produced by one of my favorite producers in the Electronic Dance Music scene.
The song itself, as I see it, could possibly be about drugs (or weed in this case) taking over pop culture and media and all of that. The title "Mary Jane Holland" speaks for itself in a way. "Mary Jane" is a common name use for marijuana. As for "Holland" I'm not sure, it could be some sort of metaphor, and I think it's because they legalized marijuana there, but again I'm not for sure.
I can break down some of the lyrics as much as I can.
"I think that I could be fine If I could be Mary Jane Holland tonight I think we'd have a good time If you'd meet me and Mary Jane in Holland tonight"
I think this means that, since Mary Jane as I said was just fancy slang for Marijuana, when she says "O think we'd have a good time If you'd meet me and Mary Jane in Holland tonight" that line is basically saying "Lets go to my place and do weed and have a blast"
"I don't like to boast But our truffles are the most Mad-magical in Amsterdam (She won't, she won't)"
In Amsterdam I know for sure they have weed there all over the place and they're known for it. The truffles could either be filled with weed or when you're high you're probably thinking that it's the most delicious food in the world (I've never done drugs before I'm just creating my own theory here).
As Tye207 said, she does come from a wealthy catholic family, so when she says "I know that Mom and Dad think I'm a mess but it's alright, because I am rich as piss" it's just as obvious as that.
Those are just as much as I can break down but again this is just from opinion and theory so I'm not sure the whole truth of the song but I feel as if the title really explains itself a lot more than the lyrics.