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"
Solstice sun it sank beneath the line
And the commoners were
Drunken upon the hillside
Or so the story goes.
I guess she followed along
So she could
Watch their games!
Sink beneath the line little girl.
Peak above the shrine them commoners were.
Harvest moon it peaked above the shrine
And the crawlers emerged multitudious!
Silly girl she sat upon their doorway
Just poppin a squat!
That's when she
Felt the squirms.
My underpants!
All I know is that she wanted to be part of the crowd.
I could've told her she was welcome here, anywhere!
But instead she combed the outskirts lookin inside
And then she sat upon a bughill.
This was when things started to get rough.
An army-o-de-pinchers climbed their creepy ways
Right inside her 5-0-1 cut-offs
And her skin took on a hue of a chemical unknown to me that's right!
They were biting her beneath the line.
She was a sitting on atop their shrine.
I wish I could've warned her!
"She should've worn underpants!
There's bugs crawling everywhere and shit,
I can't believe it!"
And the commoners were
Drunken upon the hillside
Or so the story goes.
I guess she followed along
So she could
Watch their games!
Sink beneath the line little girl.
Peak above the shrine them commoners were.
Harvest moon it peaked above the shrine
And the crawlers emerged multitudious!
Silly girl she sat upon their doorway
Just poppin a squat!
That's when she
Felt the squirms.
My underpants!
All I know is that she wanted to be part of the crowd.
I could've told her she was welcome here, anywhere!
But instead she combed the outskirts lookin inside
And then she sat upon a bughill.
This was when things started to get rough.
An army-o-de-pinchers climbed their creepy ways
Right inside her 5-0-1 cut-offs
And her skin took on a hue of a chemical unknown to me that's right!
They were biting her beneath the line.
She was a sitting on atop their shrine.
I wish I could've warned her!
"She should've worn underpants!
There's bugs crawling everywhere and shit,
I can't believe it!"
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No Surprises
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Just A Little Lovin'
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Punchline
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i love the solo parts at the end
awesome song
early Incubus is great. I think they should separate the two: a concert of new Incubus (Make Yourself onwards) and a concert of old Incubus (SCIENCE backwards)
It's funny that a lot of people think that this song is about oral sex, but it's really just about a girl that sat on an anthill without undies... lol Old Incubus is great. It's just too bad they've changed irreversably.
It Pains me I mean I feel sick when i think what happend to this band. Its like The Offspring with their cd SMASH that was their best it was so damn good but than they just move on and change thier sound to conform to what they need to be big. Fungus amongus is a very unique cd its FUNKY, There is nothing like it and compared to new Incubus even science you realize that their new stuff is crap. I pray that incubus could see this and go back to doing what they are good at which is being Original. if incubus did now what they did back in the early 90s it could easily become a tottaly new era of music. Dont get me wrong incubus is still a very talented band but why cnat they cant do some more funky things like on fungus amongus. They are a big enough band to try new things or in this case old things.
To defy the laws of tradition. It's a crusade only of the brave.
Well i like both incubus' equally. Old incubus' has the funk and the funny songs...to suit their age (15-19) the new incubus are more mature and write about profound things. their too old to write about people sitting on anthills?! lol
MULTITUDIOUS!
It sickens me that you're too closed-minded to like it all. Sink beneath the line here in my stellar pardon of burstings...Sheesh. If I had a dime for everytime you walked away from Incubus.
Its about a girl, Brandon once knew in school. And he is actually singin about how he acted, and how it seems in his eyes. Actually the point of this song is, dont sink beneath the oposite things that are for you....
haha she sat on a anthill retard