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"
This is a new garden over old flowers
And old makes old jokes take on the feel of the lore
And new lips are cradled sense of humor,
So don't waste wishes on him
Wish that one day they'd figure out how to shrink stars and I could keep one in my bedroom
And wish that me and her could grow old together
And wish that in my next life I come back as a tiger
These are fun wishes
In about seven minutes you can start
'Til then, you'll just listen to the radio from seat's edge
As if then it's the look on your face
As if, as if then you'll matter
And then I can't wait
And old makes old jokes take on the feel of the lore
And new lips are cradled sense of humor,
So don't waste wishes on him
Wish that one day they'd figure out how to shrink stars and I could keep one in my bedroom
And wish that me and her could grow old together
And wish that in my next life I come back as a tiger
These are fun wishes
In about seven minutes you can start
'Til then, you'll just listen to the radio from seat's edge
As if then it's the look on your face
As if, as if then you'll matter
And then I can't wait
Lyrics submitted by APartOfMeDies
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i have this tattooed on mi hip, the whole poem.
I annotated it for a friend:
vThis is a new garden over old flowers [new life from dead stuff. I’m growing beyond this.] And old [flowers, dead matter] makes old jokes take on the feel of the lore[things that used to be funny, cool, are part of a legend] And new lips are cradled sense of humor, [it’s so funny you think he’ll save you from what you did] So don't waste wishes on him [he isn’t the one]
Wish that one day they'd figure out how to shrink stars and I could keep one in my bedroom [keep you]
And wish that me and her could grow old together [not sarcasm] And wish that in my next life I come back as a tiger [like you? as vicious? one you’d be happy with] These are fun wishes [sarcasm, never coming true] In about seven minutes you can start [reference to the length of Vermont Connection]
'Til then, you'll just listen to the radio from seat's edge [listen to these songs about you waiting to understand what im saying to you] As if then it's the look on your face [ha, it’s not a love song] As if, as if then you'll matter [can’t wait you to understand…you’ll see just how little power you have] And then I can't wait [lit.]
@Cozen Nailed it.
could someone please explain this to me!!?? i've tried and tried to dissect it, bbut i just can't do it. i love hearing daryl say it though. he even speaks with great feeling
i cant find this song on kazaa? someone help me out here please
It's tacked on the end of The Vermont Connection as sort of a "hidden track".
I believe its about his ex, as most of the pre-W/T stuff is. New garden over old flowers- like rehashing things, trying something new that you've already done before
And old makes old jokes take on the feel of the lore- old people make old jokes/tales into somewhat of an epic told down and down to generations
And new lips are cradled sense of humor- like, maybe someone who always has a bit of humor or sarcasm about them?
So don't waste wishes on him- duh
Wish that one day they'd figure out how to shrink stars and I could keep one in my bedroom- Wishing for the impossible, something daryl might have truly wanted to do because stars are insanely beautiful
And wish that me and her could grow old together- see "duh"
And wish that in my next life I come back as a tiger- see every track on EYEWTKAS that refers to Tigers (esp the hidden track)
These are fun wishes In about seven minutes you can start- the Vermont Connection is a seven minute song
'Til then, you'll just listen to the radio from seat's edge- anticipate something to happen?
As if then it's the look on your face As if, as if then you'll matter And then I can't wait - as if then he will find some significance in this person he's trying to start over with, and if and when they might matter.
I love the way he reads this... almost hesitantly. I'd like to see what others thought of this.
this is one of the most beautiful poems i have ver read, and daryl's reading of it is almost haunting. great shit, and a great band that knows how to perfectly balance fragile beauty and violence.
oh, i've heard this referred to as "chapter seven test", does anyone know what the official title is?
its attached to Vermont Connection, but the poem itself is called the Chapter Seven Test, yeh.
simply amazing...
well, most people dont realize the fact that all the almost all of his relationship oriented songs are about his ex gf (or one of his ex'es), Katie Tiger. Thus his references to "Tiger" so much.
Can someone do me a favor and add me to your Yahoo IM, my name is ufo_sk8r and send me this hidden poem? or tell me where i can buy a copy of kiss kiss bang bang?