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"
May all our young Aussie swimmers
Be resigned to failure;
May all out T.V. stations
Be like other nations' -
"Give up! Give up! Give up! for Australia."
May Timorese fishermen
Evade the Aussie sailor;
May we do as history teaches -
Die on Middle Eastern beaches -
"Give up! Give up! Give up! for Australia."
May this nation's flag
Carry another's regalia;
May our nation state
Be always second rate -
"Give up! Give up! Give up! for Australia".
We produce a Norman May
Not a Norman Mailer;
May this land's vast distance
Always treat us with indifference -
"Give up! Give up! Give up! for Australia".
Be resigned to failure;
May all out T.V. stations
Be like other nations' -
"Give up! Give up! Give up! for Australia."
May Timorese fishermen
Evade the Aussie sailor;
May we do as history teaches -
Die on Middle Eastern beaches -
"Give up! Give up! Give up! for Australia."
May this nation's flag
Carry another's regalia;
May our nation state
Be always second rate -
"Give up! Give up! Give up! for Australia".
We produce a Norman May
Not a Norman Mailer;
May this land's vast distance
Always treat us with indifference -
"Give up! Give up! Give up! for Australia".
Lyrics submitted by Grimson
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This is exactly what it says on the website, yet it's not actually what they sing in the song..
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bkatoo4...whooptie frikkin do
I thought it went a lil' sumthin' like this:
(5 minutes,4, 3, 2, 1.. Gold to Australia) Gooooold! (5 minutes) Goooold! (5 minutes,4, 3, 2, 1.. Gold)
May all our young Aussie swimmers Be resigned to failure; May our nation's state Be always second-rate. (5 minutes,4, 3, 2, 1.. Gold to Australia)
May Timorese fishermen Evade the Aussie sailor; Do as history teaches - Die on Middle Eastern beaches -
"Give up! Give up! Give up! for Australia."
(Hands up who wants to die.) (Go and get lost.)
We produce a Norman May Not a Norman Mailer; May this land's vast distance Always treat us with indifference - "Give up! Give up! Give up! for Australia".
Satirizing The Australian way of life is TISMs trademark...
Australians are known worldwide as a scattered group of crude, unhinged, descendent of convict people, only thing is we are deluded. Like America, we care very little about anything outside our country, and care only about our performance at the olympics when it comes to our view on the world stage, and we blame all our problems on immigration.
In my Opinion the Song is about: Australians Ignorance and Mediocrity,
Norman May was an Australian Sports commentator, known for shouting “GOLD, GOLD for Australia, GOLD" (ta wiki) during mens 4x4 100m relay swimming, and was known for not much else.
Norman Mailer was an American novelist, actor, screen writer, politician... a much more successful and more accomplished person.