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"
Would you let me walk down your street
Naked if I want to
Can I fly fireworks on the fourth of every single July
Can I buy an amplifier on time
My sweet time
And I got no money
I will pay this time
And I got no money
I will pay you before I die.
And would you let me walk down your street
Naked if we all wanted to
Can I fly fireworks on the fourth of every single July
Can I fly an aeroplane way up high in all the sky
And I got no mercy
I will pay this time
And I got no mercy
I will pay you before I die.
Naked if I want to
Can I fly fireworks on the fourth of every single July
Can I buy an amplifier on time
My sweet time
And I got no money
I will pay this time
And I got no money
I will pay you before I die.
And would you let me walk down your street
Naked if we all wanted to
Can I fly fireworks on the fourth of every single July
Can I fly an aeroplane way up high in all the sky
And I got no mercy
I will pay this time
And I got no mercy
I will pay you before I die.
Lyrics submitted by insulatedsoul
Naked, If I Want To Lyrics as written by Jerry A. Miller Jr.
Lyrics © MARYANN SARAH SHELLEY MUSIC
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She could walk down my street naked if she wanted to.
Cat Power's cover of this song is too pretty to be about taking advantage of someone.
It's more about love/friendship/acceptance. Similar, perhaps, to William Carlos Williams' "This Is Just To Say." The things that are said point to something unspoken. The song suggests a relationship without jealousy (hence the walking naked down the street), and with allowances for fun (fireworks and amplifiers). It is not terribly serious, and that it why it's so beautiful.
As for the "I will pay you before I die," it sounds to me like a poetic "I owe you one," but I imagine it really signifies the giving nature of the relationship. No one's keeping track or score, or calling in favors.
This one's interesting. I'm assuming it's about taking advantage of/using someone. Pushing someone to the limit. Seeing how much you can do before he/she will object.
this song (honestly) sounded like a joke in the moby grape version. she did an amazing job of transforming it
snort.
schizima, i was just about to post the same thing =P
And yes, I'd let Cat Power walk down my street naked if she wanted to, too.