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"
I'm alone, fever dog
Scratchin' at my back door
I hear you howl
But I don't listen no more
Got to spit it out
The taste of the hair
Of the fever dog
Come around again
Well, that would be the end
Of the fever dog
Fever dog
Came to this Black City
I'm not surprised
You're beggin' now for six days
Got to spit it out
The taste of the hair
Of the fever dog
Come around again
Well that would be the end
Of the fever dog
Got to spit it out
The taste of the hair
Of the fever dog
Come around again
Well that would be the end
Of the fever dog
Oh, oh, oh
Scratchin' at my back door
Scratchin' at my back door
I hear you howl
But I don't listen no more
Got to spit it out
The taste of the hair
Of the fever dog
Come around again
Well, that would be the end
Of the fever dog
Fever dog
Came to this Black City
I'm not surprised
You're beggin' now for six days
Got to spit it out
The taste of the hair
Of the fever dog
Come around again
Well that would be the end
Of the fever dog
Got to spit it out
The taste of the hair
Of the fever dog
Come around again
Well that would be the end
Of the fever dog
Oh, oh, oh
Scratchin' at my back door
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Another kick ass song off of the movie Almost Famous. I love this song. It Fuckin Rocks.
i think what's cool is that jason lee sings it. word.
Yeah, that is pretty sweet shit.
still water is a pretty hot band, just outta curiosity, do they have their own record?
not too much. but it's neat, because stillwater grew up about 6 minutes from my house. and it's from almost famous, which rox fantastic.
i luv the film almost famous 1 song in particular. u no after russell took acid and theyre all sitting on the bus singing? who sings that song i really like it hope u an help!!
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okay i was wrong.