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 know
You love the song but not the singer
I know
You've got me wrapped around your finger
I know
You want the sin without the sinner
I know
I know
[Chorus]
I know
The past will catch you up as you run faster
I know
The last in line is always called a bastard
I know
The past will catch you up as you run faster
I know
I know
I know
You cut me loose in contradiction
I know
I'm all wrapped up in sweet attrition
I know
It's asking for your benediction
I know
I know
[Chorus: x2]
You love the song but not the singer
I know
You've got me wrapped around your finger
I know
You want the sin without the sinner
I know
I know
[Chorus]
I know
The past will catch you up as you run faster
I know
The last in line is always called a bastard
I know
The past will catch you up as you run faster
I know
I know
I know
You cut me loose in contradiction
I know
I'm all wrapped up in sweet attrition
I know
It's asking for your benediction
I know
I know
[Chorus: x2]
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Do you know the story behind 'I know'?
Brian Molko : I was living in New York, thinking about moving there instead of living somewhere in France where I had been living and where I was feeling very down. I don't talk a lot of my private life, but it's very well known and very 'public domain' that I was in a relationship during that time but it didn't work. We really needed to take some time off. So I was in that big city and didn't know anybody. I lost my home, my family and I fell into a very deep depression. We had decided not to talk to each other but I couldn't bear it anymore. I remember I picked up a phone in some phonebooth in Broadway and called this person and said "see, I know I'm not supposed to be calling you right now, but I really need to talk to you". The song is part of the conversation we had over the phone, there's a lot of guilt in that song. Blind, included in Meds, is a somewhat alike song. The end of a relationship is kind like death. You have a life with someone and just suddendly, everything stops. The saddest part is that the world goes on and people go on minding their own business, without knowing the paint you feel. It's very interesting for an author to write about that.
Thanks Molks, I didn't know that... I'd love it if brian told me he really needed to talk to me, though. This song is amazing, although it's not tupical of Placebo, but it always blows me away when I listen to it.
This song helps em in my current situation. I fell in love with my best friend, and things evolved, we had sex and I expected commitment from it all because I felt we were together but she was so confused on things and said she wasn't ready for a relationship yet we kept having sex and this song just kinda helps me out. I feel he is talking about a person who would do things with him sexually and be close to him but she wouldn't commit, she wouldn't be with him in a relationship, she loved the sin but not the sinner, that's how I feel about this song.
I love this song... the lyrics are so so, but the muzic, it's just kinda... wows you away. creeps up on you... hard to explain.
its kinda hauntin, i no wot ya mean bout the music. such a great song.
I love this song. It fits my life at the moment. Everything is sort of wrong and you know it but you really dont know why its wrong or how to fix it. And really there is no point worrying because theres basically nothing you can do about it anyway.
This song gave me chills the first time i heard it. Great explaination darkeyes, it gives you that exact feeling
it is like me and my best mate, coz i would do anythink for her, and we both know it. parts are about how you can belong to sumone body and soul
I can relate with what darkeyes has said.
wow i luv this song, i also agree with darkeyes..my ex filled me in body, mind and soul, i miss him and i think a lot bout him when i hear this song...kinks
its like a self- hate song, but also blaming over people around you, blaiming them for why u feel so down. know, the past will catch you up as you run faster I know, the last in line is always called a bastard You cant get away from what youve done, and others wont let u foeget it.