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"
A one two three four, one
Yeah
OK
Don't do it
Don't you try it baby
Don't do that
Don't, don't, don't
Don't do that
You got a good thing going now
Don't do it, don't do it, don't
Don't try suicide
Nobody's worth it
Don't try suicide
Nobody cares
Don't try suicide
You're just gonna hate it
Don't try suicide
Nobody gives a damn
So you think it's the easy way out
Think you're gonna slash your wrists this time
Baby, when you do it all you do is get on my tits
Don't do that
Try try try baby
Don't do that,
You got a good thing going now
Don't do it, don't do it, don't
Don't try suicide
Nobody's worth it
Don't try suicide
Nobody cares
Don't try suicide
You're just gonna hate it
Don't try suicide
Nobody gives a damn
You need help
Look at yourself you need help
You need life
So don't hang yourself
It's OK, OK, OK, OK
You just can't be a prick teaser all of the time
A little bit attention
you got it
Need some affection
you got it
Suicide, suicide, suicide bid
Suicide, suicide, suicide bid
Suicide, hey
Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, babe (yeah)
Don't do it, don't do it, don't, do it
Yeah, yeah
Don't put your neck on the line
Don't drown on me babe
Blow your brains out
Don't do that (yeah)
Don't do that, you got a good thing going baby
Don't do it (no) don't do it (no) don't
Don't try suicide
Nobody's worth it
Don't try suicide
Nobody cares
Don't try suicide
You're just gonna hate it
Don't try suicide
Nobody gives, nobody cares
Nobody gives a damn
OK
Yeah
OK
Don't do it
Don't you try it baby
Don't do that
Don't, don't, don't
Don't do that
You got a good thing going now
Don't do it, don't do it, don't
Don't try suicide
Nobody's worth it
Don't try suicide
Nobody cares
Don't try suicide
You're just gonna hate it
Don't try suicide
Nobody gives a damn
So you think it's the easy way out
Think you're gonna slash your wrists this time
Baby, when you do it all you do is get on my tits
Don't do that
Try try try baby
Don't do that,
You got a good thing going now
Don't do it, don't do it, don't
Don't try suicide
Nobody's worth it
Don't try suicide
Nobody cares
Don't try suicide
You're just gonna hate it
Don't try suicide
Nobody gives a damn
You need help
Look at yourself you need help
You need life
So don't hang yourself
It's OK, OK, OK, OK
You just can't be a prick teaser all of the time
A little bit attention
you got it
Need some affection
you got it
Suicide, suicide, suicide bid
Suicide, suicide, suicide bid
Suicide, hey
Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, babe (yeah)
Don't do it, don't do it, don't, do it
Yeah, yeah
Don't put your neck on the line
Don't drown on me babe
Blow your brains out
Don't do that (yeah)
Don't do that, you got a good thing going baby
Don't do it (no) don't do it (no) don't
Don't try suicide
Nobody's worth it
Don't try suicide
Nobody cares
Don't try suicide
You're just gonna hate it
Don't try suicide
Nobody gives, nobody cares
Nobody gives a damn
OK
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"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Plastic Bag
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“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
Ok well this is pretty straight forward. Don't Try Suicide people!
my friend is a mixed up kid, she really needs help and i'm always telling her that i love her and she knows that I'm always there for here, yada yada yada, i wagged school to go to the airport and get her to come home (if you knew my parents thatd b a huge huge huge thing) so when i first heard this song, i got my best guy mates band to sing it at their first gig, which i knew she'd be at. shes now okay, and is addicted to queen! this song really did save lives, dont underrate it.
my friend is a mixed up kid, she really needs help and i'm always telling her that i love her and she knows that I'm always there for here, yada yada yada, i wagged school to go to the airport and get her to come home (if you knew my parents thatd b a huge huge huge thing) so when i first heard this song, i got my best guy mates band to sing it at their first gig, which i knew she'd be at. shes now okay, and is addicted to queen! this song really did save lives, dont underrate it.
To start off, this song was firmly tounge-in-cheek. The real meaning is seen as a joke. First it says "Don't Try Suicide"...then "Nobody cares." Simply put, if someone said they were going to commit suicide, you wouldn't say "Nobody cares." The song is just a morbid joke, thats why I love it.
Dark humor at its finest. Never fails to make me smile.
I always assumed it was a parody of over-simple "inspirational" songs such as "Just Say No", although I think it predates that specific example by some years.
Hey! I know how we can win the war in Iraq! Fill Baghdad up with speakers, and play a never-ending loop consisting of just this song!
One of the words is sampled on the song "Yeah" which proceeds to the next track on "Made in Heaven
I don't know if I know anyone who has ever tried to commit suicide. It makes me sad that someone would feel so hopeless about life. Tomorrow is a new day. If you are someone who has tried suicide or feels suicidal, you need to remember that you have loads of people who love you and give a damn. And that bit about not getting into heaven is SUCH a crock of shit.
@Victrola and just remember, nobody cares LOL!!
No, not very strait forward at all... It seems to be a relationship of some sort, whether romantic, familial, or just a friendship, but the verses are one member of the relationship, seemingly a male telling the other (presumably female) that [she] should not kill [her]self,"When you do it, all you do is get on my tits" then the chorus brings in a dialogue of some sort, perhaps between the two, but more likely the person considering suicide with themself, [she] hears "Don't try suicide, nobody's worth it" and then within says, "Nobody cares...Nobody Gives a damn"
Its all about the internal conflict, and how ridiculous it can sometimes be, with such a serious subject the arrangement is almost humorous, as if it were actually satirizing the melodramatic progressive rock bands of the time... my rambling thoughts