The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
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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"
Magical
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
Page
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
This song has no meaning, it's not even a song... It's a sound effect...
It's Papa Roach fucking around, with weird background music...
I know it has no words, but that doesn't mean it doesnt have a meaning. It probably doesn't to them or most people, but i'm high and I wrote down what the music made me feel.
Note: I changed the effects on the music to make it sound like everything but the bass was in the background and everything but the bass echoed.
0:00 in the bass (base), you are member of (a) rebel army. your (yer) athe leader of your squad of 8
0:30 your out marching through the hills of some country. your all (your all) look like americans.
1:00 you see something up ahead. its a truck of soulders. they aren't from your side. they don't see you and drive away.
1:30it was on your turf, so you searched and found that a school has been blown up, and lots of people were shot
2:00 you see soldiers on the streets, and aim to shoot, but then realize they are on your side. they already secured the area
2:30 dead bodies are everywhere, and the air smells of smoke. your talking to one of the officers, and tell them who you are.
3:00 you continue your walk, and make camp right outside hte town. everyone is drinking and playing carts and smoking weed.
3:30 your playing dice and betting. its going to be a long night, there 10 prostitutes in the tent with you all.
4:00 they are having sex everywhere.
It felt like i was watching a video. I was expecting some violent ending, a peak to the song, but the song has none. so the ending was disturbing, funny, and unexpected. I was expecting a big fight and blood and death. No one died or killed anyone besides the school.
like they said at the show the other night..."sometimes yo just have to let the music sing"..
"You could really just fast-forward to the part like..."
"What the fuck?!"
"That's enough of that fuckin' shit!"
Also, they seem to be talking about masturbating in public in the background at the end.