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"
Don't believe a word
A word they say
It's more than a T-shirt
It's more than a tattoo
It's more than a phase
This is how I was raised
You keep trying to market this feeling
I heard what you said
And no were not the same
No were not the same
You'll never be a part (of what we have)
You'll never sing a song (that we love)
You'll never get respect
And you can't fool us
'Cause we know what you are
Don't believe a word
A word they fucking say!
A word they say
It's more than a T-shirt
It's more than a tattoo
It's more than a phase
This is how I was raised
You keep trying to market this feeling
I heard what you said
And no were not the same
No were not the same
You'll never be a part (of what we have)
You'll never sing a song (that we love)
You'll never get respect
And you can't fool us
'Cause we know what you are
Don't believe a word
A word they fucking say!
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
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"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
When We Were Young
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Havent Heard this yet... looked on Warez and Kazaa lite but no luck... lyrics are great NFG has really evolved but still are the same if that makes sense.
this song is fucking awesome. who would've ever thought NFG would make something like this. i wish the whole record sounded like this. oh well. the new album is still a great new kinda sound for NFG.
Amazing Intro... its crazy! doesnt sound like "Typicall NFG"
-StiX
I think this is like the intros that bands like AFI do. I think it's making fun of them. Yeah....
I love the speed this song goes at, and the shouting in the background! It sounds like they're criticising bands who got in on the pop-punk popularity explosion to make money.
everyone needs to recognize nfg was doing this before it was the "cool thing to do" and they will always be one of my favorites...fuck good charlotte, fuck simple plan, respect new found glory
thatWASthen...you had a great comment until the last statement; GC and Simple Plan are good bands that just made it big. I totally agree with NFG in this intro song but still dont hate on bands that have success, especially good charlotte, those kids busted their ass and went through some tough times and deserve all the success they've had
GC and Simple plan didn't make themselves, they were made by producers and promoters. You dont make yourself off of a couple of full lengths, have you ever heard of originality?
Okay, I was gonna keep my mouth shut but a can't.
First, about the song. Awesome, if they had left the f-word out. It's so tasteless. Frankly I'm surprised at them for putting it in there.
Second- about GC and Simple Plan. The hell they didn't make themselves. Those kids worked their asses off to get where they did. And just because they have five people in the band, and have similar musical taste, doesn't make them unoriginal. They each have amazing lyrics.
I have had the pleasure to meet both bands and I must say that I am very proud of what they have accomplished and they deserve it all. They are amazing people and they don't take ONE BIT of their success for granted.
So don't hate on them.
-XBeautifulLetdownX
Think the 'f' word is put in to show that the current market is all radio and mtv 'friendly'. And that people compare the softer, manufactured bands, they are singing about here to nfg cause they don't swear either. Just NFG wanna say that they aren't pop child friendly music, they just don't use swear words because they, like you said make it sound tasteless.... at least thats my opinion.