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"
And everybody wants you to be special
And everybody wants you to be high
They throw you down a rope when you're in
Trouble, baby
Screamin', "save me"
Then they charge you with the rescue blues
Ah, the rescue blues, oh ah ah
And everybody wants to see you suffer
They know that you need the pain so much
They throw you up a rope when you're too high
To cruise, baby
Lord, you lose lady
Then they charge you with the rescue blues
Ah, the rescue blues, oh ah ah
And everybody wants to see you fall
That's why they always love to get you high
And everybody knows you need the pain so much, lady
Well, keep in touch, baby
Just don't charge me with the rescue blues
Oh ah, rescue blues, oh ah ah
And everybody wants you to be high
They throw you down a rope when you're in
Trouble, baby
Screamin', "save me"
Then they charge you with the rescue blues
Ah, the rescue blues, oh ah ah
And everybody wants to see you suffer
They know that you need the pain so much
They throw you up a rope when you're too high
To cruise, baby
Lord, you lose lady
Then they charge you with the rescue blues
Ah, the rescue blues, oh ah ah
And everybody wants to see you fall
That's why they always love to get you high
And everybody knows you need the pain so much, lady
Well, keep in touch, baby
Just don't charge me with the rescue blues
Oh ah, rescue blues, oh ah ah
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I think anyone that has ever been in a codependent relationship or struggle with addictions would find a different meaning for this song. Everyone wants you to be the life of the party then when you cross the line and they have to rescue you they charge you with the rescue blues. I just see this song as something different.
I think the song is about how people's expectations and their actions are at contrast. They all want you to soar "to be high" but they never help you stay aloft, they only "throw you down a rope" when you're so far down you cant see the top. And then, in contrast, if you soar to high, they drag you back down "throw you up a rope". the first two lines of the last verse contain the whole meaning. "Everybody wants to see you fall. they why they love to get you high"
Ths song is reminescent of Elton John. It just sounds like something from his older days.
@Tito4687 And with the chorus it has a bit of the feel of the Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want". I like how it almost takes inspiration from that and, like you said, very early Elton John, to make something somewhat new and unique. Its a very good song.
It's about music critics who like to build you up and tear you down.
what does this mean??
hahah, whoops, didnt see that one
maybe it's just me but i dont see the music critics connections......
i think he is saying that humanity likes to see others suffer, because it makes each of us feel better about ourselves when we see ourselves as better than others.........so then, he is saying that his rescue, as in his lifting of someone else from despair or whatever is getting them down will cause that person to be something greater, to be happy, to rise above others. This then would lead to a scorn from others, which would then circle back around to the blues that the other person originally felt.
he is saying to someone else something like "ya i can help you, i can save you, but don't blame me for what happens afterword"
couldn't agree more rubyredgirl. nice interpretation.
whoa, rubyred, i never thought of it like that, that's wonderful.
spot on rubyred