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"
Thumbing through the pages of my fantasies
Pushing all the mercy down, down, down
I wanna see you try to take a swing at me
Come on, gonna put you under ground, ground, ground
Why are you trying to make fun of me?
You think it's funny?
What the fuck you think you're doing to me?
You take your turn lashing out at me
I want you crying when you're bloody at the foot of me
All of my hate cannot be bound
I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming
So, you can try to tear me down
Beat me to the ground
I will see you screaming
Thumbing through the pages of my fantasies
I'm above you, smiling at you, drown, drown, drown
I wanna kill and rape you the way you raped me
And I'll pull the trigger
And you're down, down, down
Why are you trying to make fun of me?
You think it's funny?
What the fuck you think you're doing to me?
You take your turn lashing out at me
I want you crying when you're bloody at the foot of me
All of my hate cannot be bound
I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming
So, you can try to tear me down
Beat me to the ground
I will see you screaming
All my friends are gone, they died
(Gonna take you down!)
They all screamed and cried
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
All of my hate cannot be bound
I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming
So, you can try to tear me down
Beat me to the ground
I will see you screaming
All of my hate cannot be bound
I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming
So, you can try to tear me down
Beat me to the ground
I will see you screaming
Pushing all the mercy down, down, down
I wanna see you try to take a swing at me
Come on, gonna put you under ground, ground, ground
Why are you trying to make fun of me?
You think it's funny?
What the fuck you think you're doing to me?
You take your turn lashing out at me
I want you crying when you're bloody at the foot of me
All of my hate cannot be bound
I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming
So, you can try to tear me down
Beat me to the ground
I will see you screaming
Thumbing through the pages of my fantasies
I'm above you, smiling at you, drown, drown, drown
I wanna kill and rape you the way you raped me
And I'll pull the trigger
And you're down, down, down
Why are you trying to make fun of me?
You think it's funny?
What the fuck you think you're doing to me?
You take your turn lashing out at me
I want you crying when you're bloody at the foot of me
All of my hate cannot be bound
I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming
So, you can try to tear me down
Beat me to the ground
I will see you screaming
All my friends are gone, they died
(Gonna take you down!)
They all screamed and cried
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
I got my body
Got my body back against the wall
(Gonna take you down!)
All of my hate cannot be bound
I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming
So, you can try to tear me down
Beat me to the ground
I will see you screaming
All of my hate cannot be bound
I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming
So, you can try to tear me down
Beat me to the ground
I will see you screaming
Lyrics submitted by a scar in the sky, edited by BrEnNo1023
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I understand that this song is about the shootings but i cant tell you how many times i'v felt this way (the answer is too many) at school id always get made fun of and shit like that but hell i try to swallow my pride and let it go but as i go on in life its getting harder to swallow i can tell that one of these days i'm just gonna snap and i dont want that to happen.
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I think this is about how Jon was made fun of and all that shit, and how he's not going to get taken down by it, and he'll be the one laughing in the end
I think this song is actually based on the Columbine school shootings. These lyrics are through the eyes of one of the killers. The world told them that they were nobodies, that they would never amount to anything - and they proved everybody wrong because the media turned them into superstars. That shows you how our society twists the loss of so many lives into a hollow television frenzy. It's ironic that this is turning out to be one of the most popular songs on Untouchables. I don't think that many fans realize what it's really about.
this song rocks my socks dudes... i agree with DeathRockBoy... it makes sense...i love johnatan... he's so deep...
you know, now that I look at it with that idea in mind, it does make alot of sense
DeathRockyBoy is right I don't think most people really understand what the meaning to "Thoughtless" really is. And the fact that this is the 2nd single off Untouchables it is bound to stir up the critics and hopefully open the eyes of people to what teasing and ridicule can drive someone to do.
this is defintly my favorite song off Untouchables, i can't wait for the video
yea i never looked at the lyrics until now. i liked the tune and made a mental note in my head to look the lyrics up. i've only heard here to stay and thoughtless and i like them both so i might get the cd once i get some money. but yeah.. mean people suck
this song wuz awesome when they performed it in peoria
Ive seen the video. Johnathan is awesome. The video is about this guy who get beat up and teased non stop. In one scene, he simply dives into the pool at school, and these jocks go over and try to drown him. then hes sitting by himself in the locker room, and thinkin. these faces start poking out of his back. then he is shown in his room looking at the yearbook, and it seems as though john is talking to him. in the next scene, he walkis into the prom with this girl with this hell-ish look on her face. she takes off her coat and it looks like theyres somehting like a devil as a dress.all the jocks look up... youll have to see the ending!!!!!!!!!its too good!