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"
Aha shake taper jean girl with a motel face
Aha shake bury your eyes in a secret place
Aha shake black as night on a Sunday
Cunts watch their bodies, no room for make up
I think he's tasted, tasted the watcher
Heartbreak knockin' 'em down like the seventh grade
Heartbreak, cigarettes and songs, with a winter's chafe
Heartbreak keep like my daughter and a run away
Cunts watch their bodies, no room for make up
I think he's tasted, tasted the watcher
Aha shake tapered jean girl kills me
Cunts watch their bodies, no room for make up
I think he's tasted, tasted the watcher
Aha shake bury your eyes in a secret place
Aha shake black as night on a Sunday
Cunts watch their bodies, no room for make up
I think he's tasted, tasted the watcher
Heartbreak knockin' 'em down like the seventh grade
Heartbreak, cigarettes and songs, with a winter's chafe
Heartbreak keep like my daughter and a run away
Cunts watch their bodies, no room for make up
I think he's tasted, tasted the watcher
Aha shake tapered jean girl kills me
Cunts watch their bodies, no room for make up
I think he's tasted, tasted the watcher
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i think its probabaly a personal song, that none of us will understand, coz we dont know this girl lol. i love when he says aha shake, it took me ages to realsie what he was trying to say. calebs voice is amzing, no other bands ive ehard of have the kol originality.
vincent h.
what a fuckin uber tool this guy is!!!!!!!!! LOL Caleb's voice is the main reason this band is so great.go listen to franz ferdinand or some other lame fag band you lamer.
lol owned. hahaha
vincent h.
up your ass with with glass
I can't believe no one has posted on this song yet. It's definitly one of my favorite songs on aha shake heartbreak. Also it's Kills, not kisses.
"Heartbreak knocking them down like the 7th grade"
that's just the best line in this song. So true.
I think that this song is about the girls that wear tapered jeans that they have met on the road and how most of those girls have similar mentalities and how the girls are luring them into their world and tempting them like school girls hence "knocking them down like the seventh grade" this band is simply amazing and they have brought classic rock back to contemporary music with their own originality....they are beautiful
Man I totally agree with you on this! It makes sense. when he says " cunts watch their bodies, no room for makeup, I think she's tasted, tasted the watcher" The way I see it is similar to what you said. The girls met on the road, none of them get much sleep so thats why they don't care about makeup because their like "hey, screw it, im tired, lets just go!" and the "cunts watch their bodies" is like saying that the other girls are checkin them out and judging their looks ( i.e Sexy, or hot, or damn them girls is sexy) Then the "tasted the watcher" part is like the girl being watched had some sort of sexual encounter with the other girl who was eyeballing her. Anyway Im sure that seems crazy but it sounds possible.
i like to think that taper jeans are not the monstrosities mentioned by bruiseviolet, but rather just skinny jeans. which once again are only flattering if you are skinny.
i listen to this song to get ready in the morning sometimes and it may seem cheesy but it makes me feel extra sexy when i put on my skinny jeans :P
Anyone know what Aha Shake Heartbreak means? I thought it was a double meaning for sex or something? Like a euphamism for an orgasm. That was a rumor I heard. Who knows. This is one of the best Up-tempo rock songs ever written.
I tried to edit my comment because I spelled euphemism wrong, but I accidently minus rated the comment. Oops.
Yea i agree, this is a great song but whats he saying? whats it about im lost
kings of leon are like marmite, you either love them or hate them, me personally think they are amazing! haha and im off to see them tonight, i cant f**kin wait!