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"
I'm called a cow
I'm not about to blow it now
For all the cows
For all the cows
It's funny how
Money allows all to browse and be endowed
This wish is true
It falls into pieces new the cow is you
The cow is you
My kind has all run out, as if kinds could blend
Some time if time allows, everything worn in
Everything worn in
Everything worn in, like it's a friend
I said you're all
A painted doll
And it caused the walls to fall
How far is he?
Impatiently
That's as far as far can be
As far can be
My kind has all run out, as if kinds could blend
Some time if time allows, everything worn in
Everything worn in
Everything worn in, like it's a friend
I'm called a cow
I'm not about to blow it now
For all the cows
It's funny how
Money allows all to browse and be endowed
And be endowed
My kind has all run out, as if kinds could blend
Some time if time allows, everything worn in
Everything worn in
Everything worn in, like it's a friend
I'm not about to blow it now
For all the cows
For all the cows
It's funny how
Money allows all to browse and be endowed
This wish is true
It falls into pieces new the cow is you
The cow is you
My kind has all run out, as if kinds could blend
Some time if time allows, everything worn in
Everything worn in
Everything worn in, like it's a friend
I said you're all
A painted doll
And it caused the walls to fall
How far is he?
Impatiently
That's as far as far can be
As far can be
My kind has all run out, as if kinds could blend
Some time if time allows, everything worn in
Everything worn in
Everything worn in, like it's a friend
I'm called a cow
I'm not about to blow it now
For all the cows
It's funny how
Money allows all to browse and be endowed
And be endowed
My kind has all run out, as if kinds could blend
Some time if time allows, everything worn in
Everything worn in
Everything worn in, like it's a friend
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i have no idea what this song means... But its pretty kool its quite catchy
Tis sa-weet.
I think it's about someone who has ba dream of becoming an A-List celeb or what you want to call them, and they forget where they came from or the people who put them where they are.
I think cows are a metaphor for people and how they are corrupted easily.
hmmm im suprised that not many people have commented this song, its a great song.
i always thought it was kind of about Courtney Love, i've always thought of her as a cow?
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I just love how the song goes from calm to rockin' in a 1/2 second.
"Its funny how MONEY allows all to browse and be endowed". You wake up every morning and punch the clock, go to work, make money only to have it all taken away via bills, then the rest is spent on consumerism. "The cow is YOU", the farmer milking us is corporations / corporate lobbyists(politicians) who pass laws to support the corporations. Why doesnt he just come out and say this verbatim if its true? Answer: "I'm not about to blow it all for all the cows." Enjoy chewing your cuds, everyone...
I think this song is about people. Like hollywood people or something and he phrases them as cows. "my kind has all run out" like his kind of "cows" (people) aren't around anymore. "you're a painted doll" pretty much fake.
That's a good point you make about this song being about fakes, because he later wrote a song called "Stacked Actors" which is about his disdain of all the plastic shit in California, esp. Hollywood. Check it out on "There is Nothing Left to Lose", it's an awsm song just like For All the Cows.