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"
Sweet emotion
Sweet emotion
You talk about things that nobody cares
Wearing out things that nobody wears
You're calling my name but I gotta make clear
I can't say, baby, where I'll be in a year
Some sweat hog mama with a face like a gent
Said my get up and go, must've got up and went
Well I got good news, she's a real good liar
'Cause the backstage boogie sets your pants on fire
Sweet emotion
Sweet emotion
I pulled into town in a police car
Your daddy said I took it just a little too far
You're telling her things but your girlfriend lied
You can't catch me 'cause the rabbit done died
Yes it did
Stand in the front just a shakin' your ass
I'll take you backstage, you can drink from my glass
I'll talk about something you can sure understand
'Cause a month on the road and I'll be eating from your hand
Sweet emotion
You talk about things that nobody cares
Wearing out things that nobody wears
You're calling my name but I gotta make clear
I can't say, baby, where I'll be in a year
Some sweat hog mama with a face like a gent
Said my get up and go, must've got up and went
Well I got good news, she's a real good liar
'Cause the backstage boogie sets your pants on fire
Sweet emotion
Sweet emotion
I pulled into town in a police car
Your daddy said I took it just a little too far
You're telling her things but your girlfriend lied
You can't catch me 'cause the rabbit done died
Yes it did
Stand in the front just a shakin' your ass
I'll take you backstage, you can drink from my glass
I'll talk about something you can sure understand
'Cause a month on the road and I'll be eating from your hand
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in vh1 behind the music steve tyler said the lines Ya callin' my name, but I gotta make clear I can't say baby where I'll be in a year were written specifically to Joe's first wife and that he honestly can not say that about most lines of any song he's ever written. They meant he couldn't say where he'd be because it was hopefully as far away from her as possible.
This song was written by steven tyler about Joe Perry's wife who was always interfering with the band affairs & who often patronised steve. Steven sends out the nessage that one person ain't gonna change him. Cuz there are thousand others who love to see him & joe perform together.
This song is rock genius. Wikipedia says: "The song kicks into a more rocking rhythm with dueling guitars, and rapid-fire angry-sounding lyrics sung by Steven Tyler." I love the rapid-fire angry-sounding lyrics!
I can't believe none of you have touched on "cause the rabbit done died". This is a reference to the fabled pregnancy test. So, at least the last part of the words are about the writer not being the father of the baby.
yup i did know that. there was a pregnancy test in older times, where if the rabbit died, it meant the girl was pregnant. I don't know how it goes though, but that lyric certainly means that steven got a girl (prolly underage, because of the 'daddy' bit) pregnant, and now he got away while they were waiting for the test results.
Two words: Groupie Drama.
You stand in the front just a shakin' your ass I'll take you backstage, you can drink from my glass Your telling me things I can sure understand 'Cause a month on the road an' I'll be eating from your hand
According to Steven Tyler's biography this verses are not about Elyssa Perry. They were dedicated to a sixteen years old groupie he fell in love with in one of the first american Aerosmith tours.
This song means to me that you should just be yourself and worry about what people think about you. I enjoy this song as well. I think that Aerosmith is the coolest band ever.
This song has always been an Aerosmith favorite of mine. The guitar parts totally rock! This song to me is about having fun to deal with the difficulties of touring and being on the road.
Steven Tyler wrote this about how frustrated he was with the band. They were doing a lot of drugs at the time, and tensions often ran high, especially between Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry.
I agree with all of you...it's a kick ass song. Like Boonechic_21 said that song was written when tensions were high and they were doing drugs. But the lyrics were directed at Joe Perry's first wife. Steven Tyler was tired of here being around the band all of the time and he thought that she was breaking the band up by seperating Joe from the rest of the band. So I guess this was his was of telling her that her shit does stink no matter what she may think. All that being said I think the first part of the song he is talking to Joe's wife pretty much telling her that she's nothing but a groupy especially him talking about screwing her backstage. I think kinda indirectly too that he is trying to tell Joe that his wife is nothing but trash so he should dump her....either way I don't think she was very well though of....but that's my 2 cents.
Maybe he was a bit jealous and wanted her for himself? My 2 cents LOL