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"
Glass war, glass war, glass war, glass war, it's a glass war
Glass war, glass war, it's a glass war
Glass war, glass war
It's a glass war
'Cause you can see right through the poison
It's a glass war
'Cause we all know the activities
It's a glass war
'Cause it's made of smoke and mirrors
It's a glass war
It's a glass war
It's a glass war
'Cause only poor men are dyin' in the
Gas war
'Cause we know why it was started
It's an ass war
'Cause the president's an asshole
It's an ass war
It's a glass war
It's a gas war
'Cause the starters are all victims of the
Glass war
The slogan men were starters of the
Last war
Now the southern men are starters of the
Glass war
It's a glass War
It's a glass war
And the shards are gonna start another glass war
And the shards are gonna start another glass war
And the shards are gonna start another glass war
And the shards are gonna start another glass war
And the shards are gonna start another glass war
It's a glass war
It's a glass war
Glass war, glass war, it's a glass war
Glass war, glass war
It's a glass war
'Cause you can see right through the poison
It's a glass war
'Cause we all know the activities
It's a glass war
'Cause it's made of smoke and mirrors
It's a glass war
It's a glass war
It's a glass war
'Cause only poor men are dyin' in the
Gas war
'Cause we know why it was started
It's an ass war
'Cause the president's an asshole
It's an ass war
It's a glass war
It's a gas war
'Cause the starters are all victims of the
Glass war
The slogan men were starters of the
Last war
Now the southern men are starters of the
Glass war
It's a glass War
It's a glass war
And the shards are gonna start another glass war
And the shards are gonna start another glass war
And the shards are gonna start another glass war
And the shards are gonna start another glass war
And the shards are gonna start another glass war
It's a glass war
It's a glass war
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this is such an awesome song, the bass part is simple but sweet
The 1st time I heard this song I was like "oh my god". The 2nd time I heard it was like "oh my god". the 3rd time i heard I was like "oh my god". and guess what? I'm still saying "omg" after listening to it... yeah is that fucking good.
this is such an awesome song, the bass part is simple but sweet
i'm pretty sure fat mike is saying you can see right through the bullshit, not the poison. and also, not the southern men are starters of the glass war. the shards are gonna start another glass war
apparently theres an extreme left anarchistic british party called 'class war' and its been there a while
This is about the class war yes. If you listen to this song with "Class War" in your head you can see it.
I'm pretty sure the class war is just rich vs the poor~ Upper/lower 'classes'
I quite like it, is it only avail on the live album?
its also on the 13 stitches ep
The song is very simply refering to Class warfare and class inequality in America. Glass War makes it a bit more clever...and somewhat metaphorical as we are watching Fat Mike create a metaphor out of a very obvious class war.
The war in Iraq IS a class war of sorts. I think that is what is being referenced here.
I think this is about if you can't get through the window pane you can break it, but the glass shards will hurt you so either way the pane is like an invincible army.