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"
What would I do?
Lonely as you
Pleasure or pain I can choose
What would I do?
Lonely as you
Pleasure or pain I can choose
Wake up you're dreamin' I can't stand your screamin'
Drowning out these prayers just some words without meanin'
Spare all the preachin' my secret's worth keepin'
No one understands like I do
Keep out of reach I'm your leadin' deletion
Hide behind these masks
Though they still see right through them
Every now and then
You're down and out my friend
Down and out again
Down and out again
Down and out again, but I'm down with you
One more time for the last time
One more time for release
One more time for the last time
Everyone wants to believe
Blame it on youth, all these years I've been losin'
Blame it on the past, it's the last place I knew you
Blame all the children their rage and their ruin
Blame it on the black and the blue
Every now and then
You're down and out my friend
Down and out again
Down and out again
Down and out again, but I'm down with you
One more time for the last time
One more time for release
One more time for the last time
Everyone wants to believe
Every now and then
You're down and out my friend
Down and out again
Down and out again
Down and out again, but I'm down with you
One more time for the last time
One more time for release
One more time for the last time
Everyone wants to believe
One more time for the last time
One more time for release
One more time for the last time
Everyone wants to believe
One more time for the last time
One more time for release
One more time for the very last time
Everyone wants to believe, all right
Lonely as you
Pleasure or pain I can choose
What would I do?
Lonely as you
Pleasure or pain I can choose
Wake up you're dreamin' I can't stand your screamin'
Drowning out these prayers just some words without meanin'
Spare all the preachin' my secret's worth keepin'
No one understands like I do
Keep out of reach I'm your leadin' deletion
Hide behind these masks
Though they still see right through them
Every now and then
You're down and out my friend
Down and out again
Down and out again
Down and out again, but I'm down with you
One more time for the last time
One more time for release
One more time for the last time
Everyone wants to believe
Blame it on youth, all these years I've been losin'
Blame it on the past, it's the last place I knew you
Blame all the children their rage and their ruin
Blame it on the black and the blue
Every now and then
You're down and out my friend
Down and out again
Down and out again
Down and out again, but I'm down with you
One more time for the last time
One more time for release
One more time for the last time
Everyone wants to believe
Every now and then
You're down and out my friend
Down and out again
Down and out again
Down and out again, but I'm down with you
One more time for the last time
One more time for release
One more time for the last time
Everyone wants to believe
One more time for the last time
One more time for release
One more time for the last time
Everyone wants to believe
One more time for the last time
One more time for release
One more time for the very last time
Everyone wants to believe, all right
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i love this song, i agree with you mxmattd.
Wake up You're dreaming I can't stand your screaming Drowning out these prayers Just some words without meaning
Spare all the preaching My secret's worth keeping No one understands like I do
Keep out of reach I'm your leading deletion Hide behind these masks Though they still see right through them
but maybe not, im no good at this sort of stuff, but thats what it means to me.
beautiful song, but i have no idea what it's about.
i think this song is about hiding your feelings. (my secret's worth keeping, keep out of reach). He's desperately trying to get himself to open up and get things off his chest, but he can't bring himself to do it.
i like the way the song starts slowly and dreamily (its a word!) and the changes at the line "wake up, you're dreaming..." one of the best on the album
i agree with you blackk starr but it dosnt fit with this verse can u make sense of it?
Blame it on youth, all these years I've been losing Blame it on the past, it's the last place I knew you Blame all the children, their rage and ruin Blame it on the black and the blue
i imagine that verse explains what has scarred him and caused him problems, he had a bad youth and it is still having an affect on him?
great song best on the album, would have liked it even more if the guitar breaks at the end of the verses were slightly extended as they are some of the foos best. Love the slow, fast,slow,fast,fast style certainly in my top 5 foo songs of all time.
What would I do Lonely as you Pleasure or pain I can't choose
He's been left alone. He's bored. What to do?
Whether or not the rest of the song backs this up is unknown to me. I just heard the first verse and being a teenager that's the first thing that came to mind. =D
"One more time for the last time"...raises eyebrow "Every now and then, you're down and out my friend" - eyebrow raised higher!
"One more time for release"...raises eyebrow "Every now and then, you're down and out my friend" - eyebrow raised higher!