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"
times up yeah ya should've known
pretty little princess put it in a hole
cold expect it's not a disease
can you take a photograph, a person that can see
bam bam bam
trick or treat wanna stay
you can do it ours we will do it your way
not so bad if you follow the plan
that's how it goes with your head in the sand
we've already lost control
already lost control
we've already lost control
already lost control
can't we join an army of you
and help you at a battle to fend your point of view
turntables it's just like ya said
now i'm in the army probly better off dead
cham slam wham
i forgot what to say
you can take the battles ride along the highway
just thought you maybe would understand
what goes down in a rock n roll band
we've already lost control
already lost control
we've already lost control
already lost control
no fun coz it's al been done
picture perfect prefect thinks he's fucken one
read out the list and see if it's free
now i'm in your photograph as pretty as can be
wham bam mam
was it somethin i said
when it's got a moment i'll talk about my head
i love shit when it gets outta hand
smoke the grass quicker as a cool rockin band
we've already lost control
already lost control
we've already lost control
already lost control
pretty little princess put it in a hole
cold expect it's not a disease
can you take a photograph, a person that can see
bam bam bam
trick or treat wanna stay
you can do it ours we will do it your way
not so bad if you follow the plan
that's how it goes with your head in the sand
we've already lost control
already lost control
we've already lost control
already lost control
can't we join an army of you
and help you at a battle to fend your point of view
turntables it's just like ya said
now i'm in the army probly better off dead
cham slam wham
i forgot what to say
you can take the battles ride along the highway
just thought you maybe would understand
what goes down in a rock n roll band
we've already lost control
already lost control
we've already lost control
already lost control
no fun coz it's al been done
picture perfect prefect thinks he's fucken one
read out the list and see if it's free
now i'm in your photograph as pretty as can be
wham bam mam
was it somethin i said
when it's got a moment i'll talk about my head
i love shit when it gets outta hand
smoke the grass quicker as a cool rockin band
we've already lost control
already lost control
we've already lost control
already lost control
Lyrics submitted by surfy_chic
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these might not be the exac tlyrics but it's the best i could do. this is one of my fav. songs so go get it :)
oh yeah, and the clip for this is great. it was shot on bondi beach and it has the three things you need, surfing, rock and passion :) :) :)
Grinspoon fucking rule! Videopimp.com does a bunch of there [live] videos because we have a ripper from austrialia....why is it that everything good comes out of austrialia.....
this is a really good song
killer band and killer song. rock on
haha its only 9pm here
yeah pat (the guitarist) from grinspoon came into my work a few weeks back he wanted to buy taps
this so so fucken good live its just the best to drive really fast to fucken rips
Yeah, all that's really good...but what's the song about?
losing control