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"
In space, the stars are no nearer
Just glitters like a morgue
And I dreamed I was a spaceman
Burned like a moth in a flame
And our world was so fucking gone
I'm not attached to your world
Nothing heals, nothing grows
I'm not attached to your world
Nothing heals, nothing grows
'Cause it's a great big white world
And we are drained of our colors
We used to love ourselves
We used to love one another
All my stitches itch
My prescription's low
I wish you were queen, just for today
In a world so white, what else could I say?
And hell was so cold
All the vases are so broken
And the roses tear our hands open
Mother Mary, miscarry
But we pray just like insects
And the world is so ugly now
'Cause it's a great big white world
And we are drained of our colors
We used to love ourselves
We used to love one another
All my stitches itch
My prescription's low
I wish you were queen, just for today
All my stitches itch
My prescription's low
I wish you were queen, just for today
In a world so white, what else could I say?
'Cause it's a great big white world
And we are drained of our colors
We used to love ourselves
We used to love one another
All my stitches itch
My prescription's low
I wish you were queen, just for today
All my stitches itch
My prescription's low
I wish you were queen, just for today
In a world so white, what else could I say?
Just glitters like a morgue
And I dreamed I was a spaceman
Burned like a moth in a flame
And our world was so fucking gone
I'm not attached to your world
Nothing heals, nothing grows
I'm not attached to your world
Nothing heals, nothing grows
'Cause it's a great big white world
And we are drained of our colors
We used to love ourselves
We used to love one another
All my stitches itch
My prescription's low
I wish you were queen, just for today
In a world so white, what else could I say?
And hell was so cold
All the vases are so broken
And the roses tear our hands open
Mother Mary, miscarry
But we pray just like insects
And the world is so ugly now
'Cause it's a great big white world
And we are drained of our colors
We used to love ourselves
We used to love one another
All my stitches itch
My prescription's low
I wish you were queen, just for today
All my stitches itch
My prescription's low
I wish you were queen, just for today
In a world so white, what else could I say?
'Cause it's a great big white world
And we are drained of our colors
We used to love ourselves
We used to love one another
All my stitches itch
My prescription's low
I wish you were queen, just for today
All my stitches itch
My prescription's low
I wish you were queen, just for today
In a world so white, what else could I say?
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Great Big White World Lyrics as written by Jeordie White Brian Hugh Warner
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"In space the stars are no nearer. They just glitter like a morgue. And I dreamed I was a spaceman, and burned like a moth in a flame. And our world was so fucking gone."
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"But I'm not attached to your world and nothing heals and nothing grows."
Self explanitory
"Because it's a great big white world and we are drained of our colors. We used to love ourselves, we used to love another."
When it comes to subtractive colours, the more you take out the more white it becomes. In these terms, white means blank, empty, dead, etc.
"All my stiches itch. My prescription's low. I wish you were queen just for today. In a world so white what else could I say?"
He has stitches because he has scars from the past, he speaks of his prescription because now he has an addiction to drugs since drugs was all he knew from the beautiful people because they sell it.
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"And hell was so cold. All the vases are so broken, and the roses tear our hands all open. Mother marry miscarry, and we pray just like insects. And the world is so ugly now."
Before the revolution, he lived in the valley of death. He talks about how broken everyone there is. And their obsession with media and drugs has them praying "just like insects."