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"
Lost; I thought you were lost? I keep on hiding from this Winter is moving east towards New Jersey will encompass A harbored glacier ice storm Now no one knows the difference I'm not an empiricist But your answers are forgiven I'm just not living like this Your endeavors Are dancing on top of the world You said you said These pills are shining like pearls Put the telephone on hold ‘cause I need to recount all my words There's a shard of dyslexia caught in my eye I'm taking that girl to the bank I'm dancing all night These knives by the way you abuse them Are glowing like ice I'm back and I love everyone I color between all the lines My stomach is red rosy cinnamon And baked into pies Badadadadbadadadbada My death bed Is shaking and trembling in fear And the priest, and the priest Is weeping and drinking his beer I know words alright It's all about what you don't hear I hear words alright alright I'm taking that girl to the bank I'm dancing all night These knives by the way you abuse them Are glowing like ice I'm back and I love everyone I color between all the lines My stomach is red rosy cinnamon And baked into pies Badadadadbadadadbada Violet Bruises These drinks Will out way them Out way them oh La dada la dada I know the Spanish flamenco The dance that we break and turn into limbo The reflection is simple So everyone knows in the end My friend My heart is a headache It's held in a neck brace It's beaming with bad taste And lost in ghost chase So everyone knows in the end I'm losing, My friend So pour another Glass of this whiskey It's making me dizzy I like being dizzy I like being sleepy Oh I like feeling sleepy So come on, let's dance baby! This river's a fountain A corpse in the canyon A drink in the mountains We breathe all around them To turn it in To ice Ice, ice Lose your control To find out you know No one has died It was just the snow oh It was just the snow oh So pour another Glass of this whiskey And dance let's dance Dance dance dance Dance dance Dance like your dead And those words words Words in your head They stopped stopped Stopped making sense And (ohh) slaughter you said…
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Haha again I have no fucking clue about what these guys must have been thinking when they wrote it, but i love all trophy scars lyrics anyway.
Aargh, I wish that the lyrics aren't posted in this big paragraph. Anyway, the part of the song that I can most relate to is:
My heart is a headache It's held in a neck brace It's beaming with bad taste
So pour another Glass of this whiskey It's making me dizzy I like being dizzy I like being sleepy Oh I like feeling sleepy
The usual I'm-heartache-so-I'm-drinking-till-i-pass-out kind of lyrics..haha I've had that -opens goon-
I agree, please sperate the song into it's lines. But nonetheless, great song.
I agree, please sperate the song into it's lines. But nonetheless, great song.
Favorite TS song. The song is pretty hard to figure out. I'm assuming it's about drugs and alcohol abuse. The beginning seems kind of sarcastic, but some parts it gets pretty serious. The "I'm losing, my friend" part makes me think that the whole drug and alcohol abuse might be causing him to drift from his friend. I especially like the "This river's a fountain A corpse in the canyon A drink in the mountains" line. He basically feels dead. Like he is alive but he's not LIVING. He feels he can't full "live" without the use of alcohol and drugs.
I also like the heart is a headache line.. very catchy.