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"
Warnings around me
Coming on strong
Hear the desire
That young dudes are fools
But systems will berak down
The way they all do
A general burden
When ever we're through
Powers are freezing
The way that they are
They're fornicating
With each others minds
Typical outcome in whatever we do
We stand on our own rebellion the groove
Generation Clash
Generation Clash - we got the guts to go
They're blaming our music
Say we're wasting time
The fever's been itching
While we stand in line
'cause you're always bitching
You can't hold back the time
Searching for treasure or something to hold
We'll find our pleasure in the cast you mold
Generation Clash
Generation Clash - and so the story goes
Generation Clash - ain't gonna wipe my nose
Generation Clash - ain't got the time to know
Hey Mom (Generation)
Have you always followed the golden rule (Clash)
'cause this just happens to be my first love (Generation)
And that being (Clash)
A must - a must (Generation)
That being playin' my guitar (Clash)
We try to follow your golden rule
Don't seem to matter we ain't from your school
We tries to reason tried to turn it inside out
Without no compromising my guitar will scream out loud - oh
Generation Clash
Generation Clash - that's how the story goes
Generation Clash - and only time will show
Generation Clash - You gotta gotta let me go
Generation Clash
Generation Clash
Generation Clash
Generation Clash
Coming on strong
Hear the desire
That young dudes are fools
But systems will berak down
The way they all do
A general burden
When ever we're through
Powers are freezing
The way that they are
They're fornicating
With each others minds
Typical outcome in whatever we do
We stand on our own rebellion the groove
Generation Clash
Generation Clash - we got the guts to go
They're blaming our music
Say we're wasting time
The fever's been itching
While we stand in line
'cause you're always bitching
You can't hold back the time
Searching for treasure or something to hold
We'll find our pleasure in the cast you mold
Generation Clash
Generation Clash - and so the story goes
Generation Clash - ain't gonna wipe my nose
Generation Clash - ain't got the time to know
Hey Mom (Generation)
Have you always followed the golden rule (Clash)
'cause this just happens to be my first love (Generation)
And that being (Clash)
A must - a must (Generation)
That being playin' my guitar (Clash)
We try to follow your golden rule
Don't seem to matter we ain't from your school
We tries to reason tried to turn it inside out
Without no compromising my guitar will scream out loud - oh
Generation Clash
Generation Clash - that's how the story goes
Generation Clash - and only time will show
Generation Clash - You gotta gotta let me go
Generation Clash
Generation Clash
Generation Clash
Generation Clash
Lyrics submitted by sokorny
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