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"
Well nobody wants to burn in hell
But everybody's got a soul to sell
When I was young my mama gave me some advice
She said boy don't you know everybody's got a price?
I make lots of money, I make more money than you
I drive around in my limo that's what I was born to do
And I might like you better if we fought together
If its not to be noted I got somethin' better for ya
Naked pictures, of your mother
Naked pictures of your mother
Naked pictures, of your mother GO!
I dropped the bomb on Japan
I was a hostage in Iran
I'm the ugly American
Now, I'm a government man
A government man!
I make lots of money, I make more money than you
I drive around in my limo that's what I was born to do
And I might like you better if we fought together
If its not to be noted I got somethin' better for ya
Naked pictures, of your mother
Naked pictures of your mother
Naked pictures, of your mother GO!
But everybody's got a soul to sell
When I was young my mama gave me some advice
She said boy don't you know everybody's got a price?
I make lots of money, I make more money than you
I drive around in my limo that's what I was born to do
And I might like you better if we fought together
If its not to be noted I got somethin' better for ya
Naked pictures, of your mother
Naked pictures of your mother
Naked pictures, of your mother GO!
I dropped the bomb on Japan
I was a hostage in Iran
I'm the ugly American
Now, I'm a government man
A government man!
I make lots of money, I make more money than you
I drive around in my limo that's what I was born to do
And I might like you better if we fought together
If its not to be noted I got somethin' better for ya
Naked pictures, of your mother
Naked pictures of your mother
Naked pictures, of your mother GO!
Lyrics submitted by uncle_fe_fe
Naked Pictures (Of Your Mother) Lyrics as written by Cory Martin Anthony Selph
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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look--the lyric is clearly 'i might like you better if we fucked together'. if you see them live it's clearly 'fucked' and it's not like tyler/dick has an aversion to using the word anyhow.
i think that line is also referencing the romeo void song 'never say never' where the singer repeats over and over again 'i might like you better if we slept together.' dick valentine is a pop culture encyclopedia and i have no doubt that this lyric is a riff on the older song.
so low isn't the lyric it's Solo(because of the SOlo following what he says)
It might be talking about how Americans care more about sex scandals than real violations of humanity (dropping a bomb on Japan).
Jesus christ! Whoever said these were the lyrics to this song is a fucking moron. I mean come on, what were you thinking? Oh wait! Its uncle fe fe! Of coarse! No wonder there wrong.
almost all the E6 lyrics are all fucked up
I strongly agree quiwd.
Yeah, I know they're all wrong... Another reason I'm sure it's "fought" and not "fucked"... Isn't it supposed to be his MOM talking to him?
Sigh... It's obviously about a person blackmailing a girl to sleep with him.
"Well nobody wants to burn in hell But everybody's got a soul to sell"
That's pointing to the fact that no one WANTS to do anything wrong, but people will do anything for cash.
"When i was young my mama gave me some advice She said boy don't you know everybody's got a price?"
His mother taught him from a young age that everyone is exploitable. This is where his mom's dialoge ends.
"I make lots of money, I make more money than you I drive around in my limo that's what I was born to do And i might like you better if we fought together If its not to be noted i got somethin' better for ya"
Personally, I think is "I'd like you better if we fucked together" because this guy is obviously a rich asshole and "fought" doesn't make sense in this context. He drives around in his limo looking for people to exploit, showing that he doesn't slink around in the dark. He's proud of what he does cause it makes him powerful.
"Naked pictures, of your mother Naked pictures of your mother Naked pictures, of your mother GO!"
He's blackmailing the person by threatening them with naked pictures of their mother. Now, how would a person get hold of naked pictures of someone's mother?! He said in the first verse: "everybody's got a soul to sell", implying he first paid your mother to pose naked for him, now he's using these pictures to get to you.
"I dropped the bomb on Japan I was a hostage in Iran I'm the ugly american Now, I'm a government man A government man!"
So now we see where he gets his contacts and money from. He's a CIA or FBI guy that's abusing his power for his own enjoyment. He's a war hero, so you can't get him arrested and he knows it. So now he's blackmailing you with naked pictures so that he can do whatever he wants with you.
^_^
he's a politician blackmailing another politician. he even says it in the song:
"Now, I'm a government man"
"And i might like you better if we fought together" is him telling another politician that if he "fights" with him, then the pictures don't need to be used. and they might not even be pictures of his mother, but a reference for something no one wants getting out.
I think this song is about America.