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"
Let's go down to the fashion show
With all the pretty people that you don't know
We'll sit down in the velvet chairs
They'll hand awards out for best hair
And if we don't win one, well, then
We'll blow off our heads in despair
We'll blow off our heads in despair
I smell magic in the room
Flashing lights and sonic booms
Lovely saps all without a care
Nobody said that the world was fair
And if they did say so, well, then
We'll blow off our heads in despair
We'll blow off our heads in despair
Let's go down to the fashion show
With all the pretty people and piles of blow
We'll sit down in the velvet chairs
And hang on tight to our bus fare
And if it falls between the seats
We'll blow off our heads in despair
We'll blow off our heads in despair
With all the pretty people that you don't know
We'll sit down in the velvet chairs
They'll hand awards out for best hair
And if we don't win one, well, then
We'll blow off our heads in despair
We'll blow off our heads in despair
I smell magic in the room
Flashing lights and sonic booms
Lovely saps all without a care
Nobody said that the world was fair
And if they did say so, well, then
We'll blow off our heads in despair
We'll blow off our heads in despair
Let's go down to the fashion show
With all the pretty people and piles of blow
We'll sit down in the velvet chairs
And hang on tight to our bus fare
And if it falls between the seats
We'll blow off our heads in despair
We'll blow off our heads in despair
Lyrics submitted by windmills221b
Fashion Awards Lyrics as written by Mark O. Everett
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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I'm not real sure about this one...I think it might be talking about how materialistic our world is. More specifically, I think it might be aimed at people who want to be famous. For example...
"let's go down to the fashion show with all the pretty people that you don't know we'll sit down in the velvet chairs we'll hand awards out for best hair and if we don't win one well then we'll blow off our heads in despair "
I think this refers to people who want to win so badly, that if they lose such a competition, they will freak out on themselves and become depressed. Maybe to the point of suicide.
"nobody said that the world was fair and if they did say so well then we'll blow off our heads in despair"
I think the last lines here mean is suggesting that people who get as high as they do in the hollywood-ish, mainstream industry never do it without cheating, sinning, and generally being a bad person. And, if the world is indeed fair, and you didn't need to do these things, the people he talks about would be so ashamed they would commit suicide.
The last verse...I'm not so sure. Anyone have an idea about the last verse?
blow is cocaine.
o man I cant believe there are so few comments on this song. I think its alot about just being unhappy and about committing suicide. "we'll blow off our heads in dispair" . Now you if ever are feeling really depressed this song and "somebody loves you" are great songs to listen to. I love this song.
E wrote this song while watching the VH1 fashion awards.
I love it. "we'll hand awards out for best hair and if we don't win one well then we'll blow off our heads in despair " Nice jab at those who worship fashion.
love this song, listened to it this morning while reading the paper, and guess what i see Kate Moss on coke, he,he,he.