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"
Two glass eyes
I'll fucking tell you lies
I'm on the side of the road
You're gonna fucking die
Yeah, yeah
Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot
Pow, pow, pow, oh!
Fuck this road
Yeah, fuck you too
I'll fucking kill your best friend
What you fucking gonna do? Here I come
Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot
Pow!
Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot
Pow!
Ah, pow!
Woo, pow!
Ah, pow!
Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot
Pow!
I'll fucking tell you lies
I'm on the side of the road
You're gonna fucking die
Yeah, yeah
Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot
Pow, pow, pow, oh!
Fuck this road
Yeah, fuck you too
I'll fucking kill your best friend
What you fucking gonna do? Here I come
Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot
Pow!
Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot
Pow!
Ah, pow!
Woo, pow!
Ah, pow!
Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot
Pow!
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Page
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oh and by the way, what the hell is your opinion, all you said was things about OTHER opinions
Nick Oliveri is a crazy person.
Heh.
Dear god gueveralives, shut the fuck up!! Every single fucking QOTSA song section you babble on pretending to be righteous and saying this is your opinion. Who gives a flying fuck what your opinion is when all you can be arsed to do is flame at everyone who expressing their opinion. Often when their opinion is actually about what the site is actually for, a song meaning. Now please please please shut the fuck up unless you actually have something to say that isn't so completely covered in crap.
And what makes your comments so just my friend? I don't feel this song is ment to be taken seriously, just look at it for christ sake, I think in a way it's somewhat mocking everyone who goes around saying "I hate my life, I want to die, I'm going to kill you."
Can't you just for ones shut up, gueveralives?! Who said anybody wanted your opinion anyway?
I love this song... it's so screamy and terribly unlike the rest of their music. It's one time on this CD that you really feel pure, unadultered anger surging through the lyrics.
I was thinking about the hitch hiker thing, I saw the line "I'm on the side of the road" and the whole road trip thing.
Every time I hear this song, Nick's voice reminds me of Dr. Rockso, The Rock and Roll Clown from Metalocalypse. I always envission that coked up drug fiend going crazy, shooting at people n shit. Awesome song.
As for flamers, they're proving the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Average Person + annonominity = total fuckwad. :P But this theory doesn't take into consideration that some people are just dicks from the start.
I'll play some Bad Company 2 with this song in the background!