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"
I was once a boy.
'Til I cut my penis off
And I grew a hairy skull
Of stubborn fire
Then I was a girl.
'Til I sewed my hole up
And I grew a hairy heart
Of dark desire
But
There's no answer. just surrender
Send all your barriers into the fire
And
Let no foot. mark your ground
Let no hand hold you down.
You were once so sad
Till you cut your suffer off
Now you please yourself
And fight your own wars
And you were once so weak
'Til you sewed your wounds up
Now you've learnt to sing
About sun and shine!
Be you own hero
Be your own savior
Send all your suffering
Into the fire
'Til I cut my penis off
And I grew a hairy skull
Of stubborn fire
Then I was a girl.
'Til I sewed my hole up
And I grew a hairy heart
Of dark desire
But
There's no answer. just surrender
Send all your barriers into the fire
And
Let no foot. mark your ground
Let no hand hold you down.
You were once so sad
Till you cut your suffer off
Now you please yourself
And fight your own wars
And you were once so weak
'Til you sewed your wounds up
Now you've learnt to sing
About sun and shine!
Be you own hero
Be your own savior
Send all your suffering
Into the fire
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I think it's talking about being yourself. Whether your a guy who like's guys or w/e. You don't have to be what society see's you as.
I agree, I think the song is about being yourself. Not being obstructed by gender roles. He means that a guy is not just a penis and a girl is not just a "hole". You shouldn't let anyone stop you from being yourself based on that. It's also about someone coming to terms with that and being who they are and not caring about their gender stereotype.
yeah definatly. good song
I dunno, to me it kind of seems like he's trying to say that the person let go of their sexual organs because maybe they chained the person down.. I mean how sex and stuff like that always gets in the way.. And once you get rid of your ridiculous need of the opposite sex, you're free and you can just live.
added note: on the line "then i grew a hairy skull" i've seen it posted as "hair scar" but w/e.
the first time i heard this song i was like wtf. but it's amazing
hairy*. i thought i should correct myself. there was a lot more to that comment, but it looks like i was cut off. oh well...
the song is basically tying in with the album its meant to be him transfering through the album as reflected in the snows/ song names
Lycanthropy- is the name for transforming into a wolf in mythology
i think the basic idea of this song is about being yourself. doing what you want to. alot of songs are bout such things
Fantastically experimental song from the androgynous Patrick Wolf that's about, well, androgyny.
It's actually kind of alarming how many people are so willing to simply interpret this as a typical "Be Yourself" type song. Is anyone else concerned about the grizzly metaphors he uses? He's not completely glorifying being independent, he's saying that there's an ugly price for cutting off these parts of your identity. The whole "cut your suffer off" seems like a warning that if you were to do what he suggests you'd become rather inhuman.
yeah, there's a price on his optimism.. I was too ready to accept.. I don't want to sew up my heart. And I can't be my own hero or saviour. I am not enough. I need something else, something other, something outside. Like crazy Patrick Wolf songs.