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"
It's as though I've got something on my glasses,
No matter where I look
Today, too, unchanging landscape
Disappoints me
What the heck kind of system is everyone using
To control their emotions
I felt as if I was going insane, and started crying
But I'm sane, I'm sure
Morning Station
I couldn't board the packed train
The era of boys locking themselves away in rooms
Littered with keys
Slipping out from the radio,
An electric monster
The speakers only whisper out
What you shouted at the top of your lungs
I saw the era's chosen hero
Vanquished before my eyes
Power Station
I'll give you as many volts as you want
Blues Drive Monster
Can't you just smash up this melancholy world of ours?
I'm forever waiting
Adults wrinkle their brows
Your laughing voice
And your footsteps, announced your arrival
Drawing slowly nearer
Those guys are holding a pistol
Aimed at your overlarge throat
To think that sort of thing would have any effect on you
Is so conceited
Radio Station
Destory the wall of illusions
Blues Drive Monster
Can't you just smash up this melancholy world of ours?
I'm forever waiting
How many times did you hoist dreams upon your shoulders
And run
Until the night turned into day
No matter where I look
Today, too, unchanging landscape
Disappoints me
What the heck kind of system is everyone using
To control their emotions
I felt as if I was going insane, and started crying
But I'm sane, I'm sure
Morning Station
I couldn't board the packed train
The era of boys locking themselves away in rooms
Littered with keys
Slipping out from the radio,
An electric monster
The speakers only whisper out
What you shouted at the top of your lungs
I saw the era's chosen hero
Vanquished before my eyes
Power Station
I'll give you as many volts as you want
Blues Drive Monster
Can't you just smash up this melancholy world of ours?
I'm forever waiting
Adults wrinkle their brows
Your laughing voice
And your footsteps, announced your arrival
Drawing slowly nearer
Those guys are holding a pistol
Aimed at your overlarge throat
To think that sort of thing would have any effect on you
Is so conceited
Radio Station
Destory the wall of illusions
Blues Drive Monster
Can't you just smash up this melancholy world of ours?
I'm forever waiting
How many times did you hoist dreams upon your shoulders
And run
Until the night turned into day
Lyrics submitted by AngelicRaver
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Well, Im not too sure about the station parts.. (that may just be the hook, or English that The Pillows knew?) & how music comes to us.. we hear it early as in the Morning (like a baby).. rock out as a teenager-40 something (Power Station) & then in old age a little melancholy about society to hope to hear it played once again to remember it (Radio Station)
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This is one of my favorite Pillows songs. I think the lyrics are about growing up and the general insanity of living in a world obsessed with image and consumerism ("Destory the wall of illusions"). I think the song is talking about how music offers an escape from indifference. The line about being locked in a room littered with keys makes me think that they are saying there are a lot of ways to change things and make a difference, people just need to pay more attention to them and open their eyes.