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"
Does summer exist in its praises?
Does summer exist in its praises?
The summer lives here where this place is
Come on up here, we've got something to show you
Wanna show you everything we know
Wanna show you we've been banished before you
Wanna show you we've got our own roads
And does your family know your wishes
'Cause this chorus will do you like the dishes
Summer's killin' us
It's just sing, sing, sing all day
It's as if summer existed in it's praises
Come on over, I've got somethin' to play you
'Back At Sunshine', it's the Shadow Band
We can have strictly cactus relations
Telling the waves to stop crashing
And does anybody know your wishes
'Cause this tune'll do you like the dishes
This summer's killin' us
It's just sing, sing, sing all day
It's as if summer just exists in her praises
A time for more to happen sooner
A time to be a person you still know
To float a while on your sure power
Till you say, "Canada lost, go home"
The summer's killin' us
We sing, sing, sing all day
And it's as if summer exists here in it's praises, ooh
Summer exists in a doorway
Summer exists at the fair
Summer is forever changes
Summer's taking me all the way
Does summer exist in its praises?
The summer lives here where this place is
Come on up here, we've got something to show you
Wanna show you everything we know
Wanna show you we've been banished before you
Wanna show you we've got our own roads
And does your family know your wishes
'Cause this chorus will do you like the dishes
Summer's killin' us
It's just sing, sing, sing all day
It's as if summer existed in it's praises
Come on over, I've got somethin' to play you
'Back At Sunshine', it's the Shadow Band
We can have strictly cactus relations
Telling the waves to stop crashing
And does anybody know your wishes
'Cause this tune'll do you like the dishes
This summer's killin' us
It's just sing, sing, sing all day
It's as if summer just exists in her praises
A time for more to happen sooner
A time to be a person you still know
To float a while on your sure power
Till you say, "Canada lost, go home"
The summer's killin' us
We sing, sing, sing all day
And it's as if summer exists here in it's praises, ooh
Summer exists in a doorway
Summer exists at the fair
Summer is forever changes
Summer's taking me all the way
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Holy geez. We need some more Canadians on this board. This song is unbelieveable. It was incredible when they performed it live this past July at Ontario Place. To me, this song is about a perfect summer, and all the attributes that go with it- awesome days, having a summer girl, and playing lots of beach volleyball.
The best lines are at the end "summer exists in a doorway, summer exists at the fair' I can't even explain why I like these lines so much. To me, that is the definition of an amazing song.
I'm Canadian and just signed up. Love the hip, I do. This song does me like the dishes.
I just got the new hipeponymous box set. In one of the DVD's with extra bonus stuff. Gord hints that this song is all about the Summer in which the hip first formed a band when they were still in high school. The memories of getting together every day/night and playing music and just living for the moment. the get thier fist few gigs at local bars n such, nothing special but they just loved playing for n e one even if the bar was half empty they didn't care they just play for the music.
i always took this song to mean that the summers were "killing" them. they do alot of touring during the summers they are always showing up at outdoor festivals and stuff like that... maybe...