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"
You said, "Down with the church", with your fists up in the air, all the rancor and the hate, yeah we saw your frigid stare. You hate Christianity, but love your animosity, it's the church who's getting rotten, yet it's Christ that you've forgotten.
Goodnight, goodbye, farewell to arms, it's time. Who incited, what ignited, all this hatred? Say farewell to arms. Broken hearted, dearly departed, maybe we should say farewell to arms.
Lay down your hate, (the burden and) the weight will disappear. If you could separate your anger, from that still small voice you hear.
Clench your fists and grit your teeth, save forgiveness for the weak. Let your bitterness consume, let the salt rub in your wounds. You have saved up all your spite, stoked the flame that keeps the fight, it's so hard to be objective, when your reason is defective.
You say that you've aged, I think you're just enraged.
Goodnight, goodbye, farewell to arms, it's time. Who incited, what ignited, all this hatred? Say farewell to arms. Broken hearted, dearly departed, maybe we should say farewell to arms.
Lay down your hate, (the burden and) the weight will disappear. If you could separate your anger, from that still small voice you hear.
Clench your fists and grit your teeth, save forgiveness for the weak. Let your bitterness consume, let the salt rub in your wounds. You have saved up all your spite, stoked the flame that keeps the fight, it's so hard to be objective, when your reason is defective.
You say that you've aged, I think you're just enraged.
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
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"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
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i'm not allowed to say much about this song - ie. what it's about, when it'll be released - but I wanted to at least post the lyrics for people to read if they want them. It is a fantastic song, but it hasn't been released just yet.
ooo, hey sean! darn i was gonna say what it was about :P oh well, it's a secret
Hey look its sean. Wow. Yay for frenzy boardies =)
I was looking for these lyrics everywhere and Aaron refused to give them to me. Thanks sweetie.
i find this song to be an amazing challenge for myself cause the church pisses me off so much, but it is about Christ, not the structures we have made the church to be. THanks to FIF for keeping me on track here (-=
I love this song, it is amazing and powerful. These original lyrics are far better than the ones released on the album. I wish they had kept them, I love this song.
erk... i can say i'm rather glad they released teh other version...
I've always admired teh fact that five iron kept their lyrics clean...
Wow I still can't quite figure this whole song, but I think it is about a mentalitly that is in the church that Reese doesn't like. I don't know if he is speaking of a specific situation, but I think I can relate. My church just went through a huge split, for the third time. Each side claiming God wanted what they wanted. Obviously God didn't controdict himself, I think people's selfish ambishions dictate what they think God is saying. Nobody won in the church split. Like the civil war, it was a war between ourselves. Even know, we refuse to forgive. I am not perfect, I regret so much that I did during that time, but I think it is time for us to move on. So many churches are disunified, it is disgusting. Our enemy is each other, and though we don't know it, we are siding with satan. Change must happen.
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Awesome song, but what's the difference between the two versions?
This song seems to me to be about giving up on God because of a bad experience with a church.
I have seen it happen.