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"
You never give up, you never give up, you never give up the army
You never give up, you never give up, you never give up the army
You never give up, you never give up, you never give up the army
Join the army at seventeen
Two years later your a killing machine
Three more rifles if they die
You got to do ever what army says
[Chorus]
Army life is killing me, me, me, me, me, me, me
Army life is killing me
Where the Belfast is the fucking fun
Walking about with a tommy gun
Several years and when you're dead
You'll just be announced in your local paper
[Chorus]
Five AM its just up in the morning
I gotta gear up from bed to teach
Walk through the country for our pay
Gotta do whatever the army says
[Chorus]
I joined the army to learn to kill
I joined the army to be a man
But all I learned in the long years is
Gotta do whatever the army says.
[Chorus]
You never give up, you never give up, you never give up the army
You never give up, you never give up, you never give up the army
Join the army at seventeen
Two years later your a killing machine
Three more rifles if they die
You got to do ever what army says
[Chorus]
Army life is killing me, me, me, me, me, me, me
Army life is killing me
Where the Belfast is the fucking fun
Walking about with a tommy gun
Several years and when you're dead
You'll just be announced in your local paper
[Chorus]
Five AM its just up in the morning
I gotta gear up from bed to teach
Walk through the country for our pay
Gotta do whatever the army says
[Chorus]
I joined the army to learn to kill
I joined the army to be a man
But all I learned in the long years is
Gotta do whatever the army says.
[Chorus]
Lyrics submitted by anti-flagmaggot, edited by Tricci
Army Life Lyrics as written by Duncan Buchan
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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You never give up, you never give up, you never give up the army You never give up, you never give up, you never give up the army You never give up, you never give up, you never give up the army
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Join the army at seventeen Two years later you're a killing machine Clean my rifle everyday I gotta do whatever the army says
Army life is killing me, me, me, me, me, me Army life is killing me
Went to Belfast just for fucking fun Walking about with my Tommy gun Sooner or later you'll end up dead You'll just be a line in your local paper
Army life is killing me, me, me, me, me, me Army life is killing me
Army life is killing me, me, me, me, me, me Army life is killing me
Reveilles at 6 AM in the morning I've gotta get up or I'll be on fatigues Report to the guardroom for RP's You've gotta do whatever the army says
Army life is killing me, me, me, me, me, me Army life is killing me
I joined the army to learn to kill I joined the army to be a man But all I learned in eight long years Is gotta do whatever the army says
Army life is killing me, me, me, me, me, me Army life is killing me
it means don't join the damn army...
Based on Wattie's actual experiences in the army. He been kicked out because he wanted to dress punk, which obviously didn't go down well!