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"
Emma appeared like an angel.
Emma fell like rain
Into my lap like a heart attack.
Like lightning from her name
I'm running dry of bad excuses.
Don't want to lie or seem intrusive, but
Time hasn't told me anything,
And neither has she
A poinsettia in poison rain...
Traded true love for insult and injury
We washed it down the drain with
One silver bullet and two vicodin
Emma woke up in darkness,
Suitcase already packed
Note on the bedstand signed in blood,
"sincerely, never coming back."
A nightmare on my street the day she arrived
A nightmarish household in which she died,
'cause it made her feel at home
Somehow made me feel at home
A poinsetta in poison rain...
Traded true love for insult and injury
We washed it down the drain with
One wooden stake through the heart, and two vicodin
A poinsetta in poison rain...
Traded true love for insult and injury
We washed it down the drain with
One silver bullet and two vicodin
And we watched the sun fall crown
On a city that sleeps in a world upside down
A slow ticket straight out of town
You went out with a bang when you took
With you all my dreams underground
Emma fell like rain
Into my lap like a heart attack.
Like lightning from her name
I'm running dry of bad excuses.
Don't want to lie or seem intrusive, but
Time hasn't told me anything,
And neither has she
A poinsettia in poison rain...
Traded true love for insult and injury
We washed it down the drain with
One silver bullet and two vicodin
Emma woke up in darkness,
Suitcase already packed
Note on the bedstand signed in blood,
"sincerely, never coming back."
A nightmare on my street the day she arrived
A nightmarish household in which she died,
'cause it made her feel at home
Somehow made me feel at home
A poinsetta in poison rain...
Traded true love for insult and injury
We washed it down the drain with
One wooden stake through the heart, and two vicodin
A poinsetta in poison rain...
Traded true love for insult and injury
We washed it down the drain with
One silver bullet and two vicodin
And we watched the sun fall crown
On a city that sleeps in a world upside down
A slow ticket straight out of town
You went out with a bang when you took
With you all my dreams underground
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good mourning is a bad cd. so now you going to maul me?
ha. that was a joke.... i really like it, i get flack (sp?) for it, but it's good... they are developing more and more
my name is emma too. i love this song. it's always in my away message
i agree with whoever said this is about emma killing herself, and that he based his life around her. i think he kills himself too though.
the line "one silver bullet and two vicodin" has nothing to do with vampires...
vicodin is a strong painkiller and its effects are greatly increased by the consumption of alcohol
a silver bullet in this case is a coors light can; he's drinking the beer with the vicodin to get fucked up
fucking sick line...
"Into my lap like a heart attack, like lightning from her name"<br /> <br /> How could these lyrics not be about a Dog you Bozo's <br /> <br /> Some girl asked me who Emma was on Twitter.<br /> <br /> Check my Twitter and thanks for all the support. twitter.com/danielandriano
Really love that song, definately my favorite from Good Mourning. The chorus kicks soo much ass and yeah, i think it was the right decision to let Dan sing Matt's song...
I couldn't agree more. I love the harmony in the chorus.
I think I heard something in an interview snibbit about how this song is about when Matt was in school and there was this girl that kicked him in the balls in front of everyone. Beautiful song(maybe it's due to the fact that the love of my current life is named Emma...)
The girl didn't kick matt in the balls, it was a teacher on the playground because she wanted to reveil that something was going on which she didn't think was right.
Greatest song on the new album
i def. agree best song needs 2 be their next video contrary to what many people believe it should be (all on black)
dans voice is more of a crooner which totally compliments matts raspier one. i tend to favor matts voice although i do agree that dan totally makes this song
This song kicks so much ass...it almost pains me to hear people say that Good Mourning is a bad CD. I swear to god I'm gonna maul the next person that says that, although most of my friends share my taste in music, there are the select few with 0 taste that like other stuff. But yeah...great song