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"
There's an old lady living in an old house
Since her husband died she hasn't been out
She lives in her own world with her own little nightmares
And she's stopped counting the days
She buys a radio station with her husbands legacy
She does her own show 10 hours a day
Plays poems and listens lets feelings run free
Helps people talk their pain away
So if your world falls down
Can't see the light of day
Call the lady call the station today
And listen
This is radio orchid listen and cry
To all the others that suffer and die
This is radio orchid listen and cry
Take your lonely heart and let fly
Sending her message she's solving the problems
Of millions and millions and who solves hers
The old lady gets older still lives in her old house
But when she dies we'll all live alone
So if your world falls down
Can't see the light of day
Call the lady call the station today
This is radio orchid listen and cry
To all the others that suffer and die
This is radio orchid listen and cry
Take your lonely heart and let fly
Take your lonely heart and let fly
So if your world falls down
Can't see the light of day
Call the lady call the station today
This is radio orchid listen and cry
To all the others that suffer and die
This is radio orchid listen and cry
Take your lonely heart and let fly
Take your lonely heart
Since her husband died she hasn't been out
She lives in her own world with her own little nightmares
And she's stopped counting the days
She buys a radio station with her husbands legacy
She does her own show 10 hours a day
Plays poems and listens lets feelings run free
Helps people talk their pain away
So if your world falls down
Can't see the light of day
Call the lady call the station today
And listen
This is radio orchid listen and cry
To all the others that suffer and die
This is radio orchid listen and cry
Take your lonely heart and let fly
Sending her message she's solving the problems
Of millions and millions and who solves hers
The old lady gets older still lives in her old house
But when she dies we'll all live alone
So if your world falls down
Can't see the light of day
Call the lady call the station today
This is radio orchid listen and cry
To all the others that suffer and die
This is radio orchid listen and cry
Take your lonely heart and let fly
Take your lonely heart and let fly
So if your world falls down
Can't see the light of day
Call the lady call the station today
This is radio orchid listen and cry
To all the others that suffer and die
This is radio orchid listen and cry
Take your lonely heart and let fly
Take your lonely heart
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Great version of a great song,
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This is a great song, one of my favorites. It's unfortunate not many people know about this band in the US.
Oi. Howyadoin, I'm in the US and I love this album. Radio Orchid Is actually kind of a sad song, and It's followed up well by the song with a rather angry tone, Waiting for Paradice.
robinjay490, it’s funny you say it’s a sad song…I see it as an inspirational, happy song…..an old woman with nothing to live for spends all her money and time to help other people in need and make them feel better, helping “millions and millions” in the process.
That aside, it’s just a quality song, really well produced, and one of the catchiest choruses ever! Quite an lifteruperrer for me.
I’m in England and am yet to meet anyone who’s ever heard of this band.
don't know if anybody still looks at this post, but Fury in the Slaughter House was one of my faves. Does anybody know where I could find their first cd, since mine has gone tragically MIA?