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"
The curtains are made for moving
Cuz you know sometimes you're not always there
You don't need it now
Your head's shaped like a cow
Till all is here, the world's just a sphere
No bigger than the balls you suck
Hey you with your head down
Don't you know that can't be where it's always at?
You've all been always there
Your head's shaped like a pear
You search thru the lights
Instead of jumped in the pie
Of life that you slice till it's just right
You're so often seen along
The west side wheel of the mills that you steal
To get around the coating of the slobs
It's always made you feel the best
You always need less and less of the casual
Forces that lead you away from the nest
I know your face
It's all out place
I know your face
It's all out of place
Cuz you know sometimes you're not always there
You don't need it now
Your head's shaped like a cow
Till all is here, the world's just a sphere
No bigger than the balls you suck
Hey you with your head down
Don't you know that can't be where it's always at?
You've all been always there
Your head's shaped like a pear
You search thru the lights
Instead of jumped in the pie
Of life that you slice till it's just right
You're so often seen along
The west side wheel of the mills that you steal
To get around the coating of the slobs
It's always made you feel the best
You always need less and less of the casual
Forces that lead you away from the nest
I know your face
It's all out place
I know your face
It's all out of place
Lyrics submitted by UseYourIllusion
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do you think its bout feeling lonely??? just a thought
i think its about watching someone who you love fall apart... but thats the beauty of john's lyrics. They can be interpreted in a way thats hits you close to your heart.
wow im almost crying here but thats prob cuz i have just after seeing that happen to me. someone close died here it might be somthing to do with johnny ramone
why johnny ramone? he sucked, I mean he was a member of the NRA and a Republican. Why should John Frusciante write a song about someone like that?
cuz he was really close to him if you read the newspaper once in a while oh shit i got the wrong ramone
i didnt get the wrong ramone hes the newset one to die isnt he not to sound mean
i think there is a little bit of feeling lonely, in this song, and also some anger, and bitterness, but I don't think it is necessarily about those feelings. i think it's about drifting away from who you really are, and becoming something you didn't expect, or want to become.
Johnny Ramone died in 2004, but this song was released in 1994.
The curtains are made for moving Cuz you know sometimes you're not always there
(What you know and think should be challenged, rethought, and sometimes you realize that you are not living the way you actually think you should)
You don't need it now
(But you can change)
Your head's shaped like a cow
(You think what you are told to think)
Till all is here, the world's just a sphere No bigger than the balls you suck
(Till you die everybody's world and the way you see it is just as big as your values... for most -material things)
Hey you with your head down Don't you know that can't be where it's always at? You've all been always there Your head's shaped like a pear You search thru the lights
(That is why there is depressed people, chasing things that they dont need, but they always lived that way and you can't think any different, your mind is shaped/not free, because you are searching for that happiness and peace by doing and thinking that you need what is shown on TV)
Instead of jumped in the pie Of life that you slice till it's just right (But you need to just live and not be afraid and you will find your happiness) You're so often seen along The west side wheel of the mills that you steal To get around the coating of the slobs
It's always made you feel the best You always need less and less of the casual Forces that lead you away from the nest
I know your face It's all out place I know your face It's all out of place
(the rest is the same idea. So in short, I think the message is: start living and find the true meaning of life, un derstand that the essence is not in the things you own... open spiritually and search within...