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"
She-rocker, you're wasting your time
'Cause you're only a girl
She-rocker sacked the factory line
For a chance of a dance in a surreal world
She said, "come rescue, rescue me
From this hollywood life
Come rescue, rescue me
From this hollywood life"
She-rocker, hear the audience scream
For the death of the king
But a hand-job is all the butchery brings
'Cause fame ain't as easy as him (how sad)
Oh, come rescue, rescue me
From this hollywood life
Come rescue, rescue me
From this hollywood life
Oh, come rescue, rescue me
From this hollywood life
Come rescue, rescue me
From this hollywood life
Come take this hollywood life
Take this hollywood life
Take this hollywood life
Come take this hollywood life
'Cause you're only a girl
She-rocker sacked the factory line
For a chance of a dance in a surreal world
She said, "come rescue, rescue me
From this hollywood life
Come rescue, rescue me
From this hollywood life"
She-rocker, hear the audience scream
For the death of the king
But a hand-job is all the butchery brings
'Cause fame ain't as easy as him (how sad)
Oh, come rescue, rescue me
From this hollywood life
Come rescue, rescue me
From this hollywood life
Oh, come rescue, rescue me
From this hollywood life
Come rescue, rescue me
From this hollywood life
Come take this hollywood life
Take this hollywood life
Take this hollywood life
Come take this hollywood life
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To me it sounds like a parable about the exloitative lot of women in music or on the screen (Marylin et al, like in their song 'Heroin') but with an analogy to classical women like Elizabeth I or Meryl Streep in Dangerous Liasons: no matter what they do, they can't win in a man's world... The first line is a man's attitude to them; the bit about sacking the factory line might mean breaking the mould, smashing formulaic stereotypes; 'resuce me frm this Hollywood life' sounds like a sarcastic retort - what need a man beside her, when a woman can be that successful? 'The death of a king/blowjob/butchery' bit could be that she can win against men awesomely, she can butcher them, but all that means to men, ie the world, is a quick bit of cheap gratification - they don't really care for more than five minutes (how sad). The Hollywood life ain't easy... So the final line is a challenge: come on then, take everything I've got... This song is f*ckin mighty. It never seemed rated that highly - CHANGE THAT, PEOPLE!
I agree with you, except one thing: Meryl Streep wasn't in Dangerous Liasons, you probably mean Glen Close...<br /> <br /> Great song!
I saw an interview with Brett where he said that this song was actually about a male friend of his if I remember correctly, who lived in Hollywood and tried over and over to get famous, but never succeeded. He said it was a sad life. So maybe it's just written like it's about a girl so that his friend didn't realise it was about him (though it does seem pretty obvious) or just because Brett thought a woman theme would make the song sound more glamorous?
courtney love comes to mind whenever i hear this song
That actually makes a lot of sense.
Not sure I understand the line about a handjob.
To me it sounds like a parable about the exloitative lot of women in music or on the screen (Marylin et al, like in their song 'Heroin') but with an analogy to classical women like Elizabeth I or Meryl Streep in Dangerous Liasons: no matter what they do, they can't win in a man's world... The first line is a man's attitude to them; the bit about sacking the factory line might mean breaking the mould, smashing formulaic stereotypes; 'resuce me frm this Hollywood life' sounds like a sarcastic retort - what need a man beside her, when a woman can be that successful? 'The death of a king/blowjob/butchery' bit could be that she can win against men awesomely, she can butcher them, but all that means to men, ie the world, is a quick bit of cheap gratification - they don't really care for more than five minutes (how sad). The Hollywood life ain't easy... So the final line is a challenge: come on then, take everything I've got... This song is f*ckin mighty. It never seemed rated that highly - CHANGE THAT, PEOPLE!
To me it sounds like a parable about the exloitative lot of women in music or on the screen (Marylin et al, like in their song 'Heroin') but with an analogy to classical women like Elizabeth I or Meryl Streep in Dangerous Liasons: no matter what they do, they can't win in a man's world... The first line is a man's attitude to them; the bit about sacking the factory line might mean breaking the mould, smashing formulaic stereotypes; 'resuce me frm this Hollywood life' sounds like a sarcastic retort - what need a man beside her, when a woman can be that successful? 'The death of a king/blowjob/butchery' bit could be that she can win against men awesomely, she can butcher them, but all that means to men, ie the world, is a quick bit of cheap gratification - they don't really care for more than five minutes (how sad). The Hollywood life ain't easy... So the final line is a challenge: come on then, take everything I've got... This song is f*ckin mighty. It never seemed rated that highly - CHANGE THAT, PEOPLE!
this song is obviously NOT about justine frischmann