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"
Coming through the alley trying to walk without a sound
It doesn't really matter 'cause there ain't no one around
Tip toe through the alley and tip toe through your life
You still got it coming be it gun be it knife
Next thing you know you're eating hospital food
Karaoke castration take the wasp alive
He's gonna sting you anyway and take you to the hive
Yesterday was suckin' and tomorrow's looking bad
Who knew that today was the only thing I had?
Hospital food
Want some hospital food
Hospital food
Delicious Hospital food
In your tribute album to the world you must never forget
To sing the one about the cat who's always getting wet
He's always got a problem he's a very bitter dude
And now he is complaining 'bout his hospital food
Hospital food
It's gonna help the medicine go down
Want some hospital food
Gonna take a walk without a sound
A little hospital food
Helps the spoonful of sugar come up
I want some hospital food
In your blender and in my cup
It doesn't really matter 'cause there ain't no one around
Tip toe through the alley and tip toe through your life
You still got it coming be it gun be it knife
Next thing you know you're eating hospital food
Karaoke castration take the wasp alive
He's gonna sting you anyway and take you to the hive
Yesterday was suckin' and tomorrow's looking bad
Who knew that today was the only thing I had?
Hospital food
Want some hospital food
Hospital food
Delicious Hospital food
In your tribute album to the world you must never forget
To sing the one about the cat who's always getting wet
He's always got a problem he's a very bitter dude
And now he is complaining 'bout his hospital food
Hospital food
It's gonna help the medicine go down
Want some hospital food
Gonna take a walk without a sound
A little hospital food
Helps the spoonful of sugar come up
I want some hospital food
In your blender and in my cup
Lyrics submitted by Don Jerone
Hospital Food Lyrics as written by Jonathan Hayes Norton Jim Lang
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
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I personally think this song is about the dangers of life, you can be in hospital before you know. Aparantly E had had a bad experience with the food in the hospital or something. But that doesn't matter. I just think this song is great and the live-version ever greater. It so easy and simple, just bass, drum and djembe. I especially love the part when Butch starts screaming and shouting and E says very dry, "Butch" ('what?') "i can hear you!" ('uhoho'). Just great. Man i love that bassline
please forgive me if i keep on smiling
Hospital food tends to be pretty gross...
I doubt this song is mainly about Mr. E's bad experience with hospital food. Try being cracked in the face by a couple of street thugs. He writes about that an awful lot-- Jungle Telegraph, Bus Stop Boxer..
eels are kickin'.
it's about a mental hospital.
I don't know why, but this song makes me laugh and feel good. I just love it's jazzy feel, and then that high-pitched falsetto. My favorite's when he adds in "Delicious Hospital Food" in the first chorus.
I think it just means that no matter what you do, bad shit is gonna happen, but don't let that make you not enjoy life. Here today, gone tomorrow. You should live it up, because at any given moment you could be stuck in a hospital eating their dry turkey and pasty potatoes.
I agree with m D t on the meaning. I think it's about not letting the anxiety about the future or any shittiness in life get you down. Hospital food tastes bad (from what I hear, I've never actually ever had some), so E is just singing, endure the hospital food, it ain't that bad. Take life in stride and don't worry about the future.
it'd be interesting if someone wrote a song that was simply about a bad experience with hospital food. no deeper meaning, just bad food. :-D
It's about realising that whatever you do in life you could be eating hospital food when you least expect it. Bass and drums are cool in this song...also a main part of life :)