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"
Tonight the cinema's the treatment clinic where the perverts seek the cure. Show me the rape scene one more time for the cause and I promise we'll behave like perfect christians. We'll sing the glory of the gospel for some whiskey and a skin flick. Hallelujah. All rise. Hollow be my name. In this kingdom we come without calling. Hallelujah. The violence and the choir, the virgin and the fire. Up to her neck in tongues. Lovely, so lovely is Ludwig Van. Electronic sonata pumped through the mud of a one night stand. The saints in regalia whistling while they rape. Lid clamps in vitamins. Lift up her skirt and I'll be cured, like a junkie with a methadone addiction thinks he's clean. I'll be cured. Sit down and watch closely. All these whores have conceded the war. She said "you might be sick, but you feel alright to me." Turn it off. That's enough, I promise I'm better. Healed at the horror show.
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I am pretty sure that this song is about hypocritical christians. The people that he is talk about tell everyone to resist lust, but in the end they can't even control their own. In the end the "christians" feel bad about what they do, and when they have some sort of punishment, wheter it is God not giving them everything they want, or someone knowing that they gave into lust, they say they don't deserve it.
this song is mostly in reference to the book and movie "clockwork orange" great song and a great book/movie
YEH! i thought it was to do with 'A Clockwork Orange' cause of the Ludwig Van bit. and the Lid clamps bit ace :D
"like a junkie with a methadone addiction thinks hes clean"
everyone has personal struggles or addictions that ail them in life, and sometimes we convince ourselves we've overcome them even though they still remain, although with different appearances
Definately about A Clockwork Orange. "the saints in regalia whistling while they rape" is an obvious reference to the singing in the rain scene. Maybe Keith's views on the subject of what's considered acceptable in society? I find it interesting how he perceives them as saints though..
he's talking about how he is addicted to sex he thinks if he just does it one more time then he'll be fine be able to live without it: "lift up her skirt and ill be cured"
but he finds this sort of thing disgusting, and doesn't want to be a part of it "healed at the horror show" it's the things he hates that make him feel better
by the way when i saw him i mean the perspective that this song is written in, and yeah i think it is a reference to a clockwork orange. he switches persons though from "i" to "him"
There's no doubt in my mind that this song is about A Clockwork Orange.
"Tonight the cinema's the treatment clinic where the perverts seek the cure. Show me the rape scene one more time for the cause and I promise we'll behave like perfect christians."
-To cure the main character Alex in the book, they make him watch all kinds of messed up shit such as women being gang raped and such, while he's on medication. It gets him sick and he begs them to stop. This part basically saying "show me the rape scene again and i'm cured i swear i'm cured."
"Lovely, so lovely is ludwig van. Electronic sonata pumped through the mud of the night stand."
-Alex loved Ludwig Van in this and also they played that music when they show him the videos so he ends up not being able to listen to it without becoming sick near the end of the book.
"Sit down and watch closely. All these whores have conceded the war. She said "you might be sick, but you feel all right to me". That's enough. Turn if off. I promise I'm better. Healed at the horror show."
-He begs them to stop and turn it off. That he's cured. Oh and the word "horrorshow" was used in the book a lot, as it meant a good time. Such as "it was a real horrorshow."
good call, butter. though, the horror show could be reference to that, but also just a reference to the films being a horror show.
or hey, lets go crazy, maybe it meant that the horrorshow that was supposed to cure him contained stuff that he used to think was horrorshow? either way, good call.
we'll sing the glory of the gospel for some whiskey and a skin flick!!