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"
part one from the bird and the deer who live on the same to the condominiums that litter the plain it took time... time and disregard from the green and the trees that shot high in the air to the high-business market-men who take all that's there it tooktime... time and disregard part two one more acre, another tree "it's all untamed, of course it's free" one more acre, it seems no one cares "another great chance to put a building there" part three i used to roam, wherever i would i'd see my friends and i'd eat what i could we did live together in our borderless state survival our instinct, nature our fate today i see borders and my friends disappear man chooses my fate thus i live in fear tomorrow the trucks come i've nowhere to run my home is destroyed so they can have fun. part four from the wild natural wonderland from which we all came to the cement and metal that lost all the game it took time...time and disregard...
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This song is amazing. It's a 7 minute long song that sounds nothing like anything Bad Religion have ever done. I can understand a Bad Religion fan disliking it though.
hey jakebert - i checked out your site (saw it listed in the green day section). you\'re pretty funny. i saw some of your fave bands - you should check out instruction, i think you\'d like them. they had a single out (breakdown) and their newest is going to be out any minute (i\'m dead). they\'re awesome - check it out!
Jakebert, actually, if you listen to their first album "Into the Unknown", Time and Disregard doesn't vary much from their old style. I remember listening to Time and Disregard in the car on repeat when I was about 4 years old, but never knew who sung it until I got the Into the Unknown album and heard it, and it's still as good as it was as a young kid, and I still play it on repeat once in a while... Anyways, its possibly one of my favorite Bad Religion songs, and its obviously about the destruction of forests and wooded areas for the construction of new homes and buildings.
Actually, Time and Disregard is from Into the Unknown. Their first release (in this case an EP rather than album) was How Could Hell Be Any Worse? which is an immense difference between the two. Early BR was much rougher and harder than the newer BR. Into the Unknown is considered a failure by many, including the band, because it just wasn't punk. A lot of fans got pissed off at it. But I'm glad SOME people (other than critics) like the songs from Into the Unknown. I personally can't say it's bad, but it's not my style of music.
strungoutpunk = nub.
along with complete fucking retard.
how can you compare fuck armageddon...this is hell, to this?