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"
Who the hell are you to tell me
What I am and what's my master plan
What makes you think that it includes you
Self-righteous wealth
Stop flattering yourself
So when the smoke clears here I am
Your reject all-American
Sucking up your social sect
Making you a nervous wreck
To hell and back and hell again I've gone
You're not my type
Not my type
What's the difference between you and me
I do what I want and you do what you're told
So listen up and shut the hell up
It's no big deal and I'll see you in hell
So when the smoke clears here I am
Your reject all-American
Sucking up your social sect
Making you a nervous wreck
To hell and back and hell again I've gone
You're not my type
Not my type
Not my type
You're not my type
So when the smoke clears here I am
Your reject all-American
Falling from grace right on my face
To hell and back and hell again I've gone
What I am and what's my master plan
What makes you think that it includes you
Self-righteous wealth
Stop flattering yourself
So when the smoke clears here I am
Your reject all-American
Sucking up your social sect
Making you a nervous wreck
To hell and back and hell again I've gone
You're not my type
Not my type
What's the difference between you and me
I do what I want and you do what you're told
So listen up and shut the hell up
It's no big deal and I'll see you in hell
So when the smoke clears here I am
Your reject all-American
Sucking up your social sect
Making you a nervous wreck
To hell and back and hell again I've gone
You're not my type
Not my type
Not my type
You're not my type
So when the smoke clears here I am
Your reject all-American
Falling from grace right on my face
To hell and back and hell again I've gone
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this song is aawesome, and the meaning is really different compared to what i originally thought. i mean, at first i thought that it had something to do with some girl asking him out, and him rejecting her, "not my type" but i didnt listen to the rest of the words, and now it makes more sense.
YEAH...this one is definitely in my "favorites" list... Even if that list is difficult to amke cause i have sooo many favorite songs from them...ACTUALLY...I LOVE THEM ALL!!! (even the new stuff contrarily to a lot of people here...i mean on the site... i just love Green Day!
billie-joe wrote this song after a mum wrote to him complaining that he swore too much in songs. he wrote back saying he doesnt give a damn what she thinks and he will write what he wants. the line 'I do what I want, and you do what you're told' was actually in his letter to this woman. its a quality song
i love this song.
I think it's about socal outcasts. But thats just my opinion.
this is my favorite green day song. ok well one of many.. this is... one of my favorite green day songs on nimrod? maybe...
iamtheone is correct. no offense, but you're all wrong but iamtheone.
IAMTHEONE is correct. This song reminds of a lot of people I know. There is so many great lines in this song
This is one of my favourite green day songs, off my favourite album by them :) I think it's about being rejected by society, personally.
Revising my earlier post, i did actually hear about that letter and now I see that this song is cos of it. A big DOH! to me.