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"
This has got to die
This has got to stop
This has got to lie down
Someone else on top
You can keep me pinned
It's easier to tease
But you can't paint an elephant
Quite as good as she
And she may cry like a baby
And she may drive me Crazy
Cause I'm lately lonely
So why d'you have to lie?
I take it I'm your crutch
The pillow in your pillow case
It's easier to touch
And when you think you've sinned
You fall upon your knees
Living in your picture
You still forget the breeze
And she may rise
If I sing you down
And she may wisely
Cling to the ground
Cause I'm lately horny
So why would she take me
'Cuz I'm horny
This has got to die
This has got to stop
This has got to lie down
Someone else on top
This has got to stop
This has got to lie down
Someone else on top
You can keep me pinned
It's easier to tease
But you can't paint an elephant
Quite as good as she
And she may cry like a baby
And she may drive me Crazy
Cause I'm lately lonely
So why d'you have to lie?
I take it I'm your crutch
The pillow in your pillow case
It's easier to touch
And when you think you've sinned
You fall upon your knees
Living in your picture
You still forget the breeze
And she may rise
If I sing you down
And she may wisely
Cling to the ground
Cause I'm lately horny
So why would she take me
'Cuz I'm horny
This has got to die
This has got to stop
This has got to lie down
Someone else on top
Lyrics submitted by veritas9
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where abouts can you find this song?
yeah is it possible to buy or download - if so where, its noit my favorite by damine rice (thats volcano) but i would still love to hear part 2 of one of the most beautiful songs ever!
i love the blowers daughter but volcano is also my fav damien song 'goodluck20'
just search up the blower's daughter 2 on limewire or whatever you use to download music for.. and if you are anti-downloading, then i don't know where to find it. i'm just glad i've got my copy. :)
This song is amazing. I love to listen to part one and two back to back, it gives me chills.
I take it I'm your crutch The pillow in your pillow case It's easier to touch
amazin song indeed- think i may even like it more than pt.1.
"But you can't paint an elephant Quite as good as she" love that one...
its obvious that in this part of the song that he's realised she's using him. the initial infatuation has dropped and now he cares about how he's being treated and decided "This has got to die/This has got to stop". its like the golden senario: you love someone and they don't love you back but instead use their power over you for their own gain (mainly because they know you'll have sex with them the moment they click their fingers.)
can you hear the bitterness as you read this?
beautiful song... deep felt! woo! yup its cool.
This is by far one of the nicest and saddest songs I've heard Damien Rice play. It doesn't sound like the 1st part and sometimes when he plays it live he plays it along to a few chords of Radiohead's Creep... Very bitter and damn, do I love it so.
you can listen to this song here:
myspace.com/damienrice52
:)
This song is now known as Elephant. It has been recorded in the studio, and will be on Damien's next album, 9, on November 14.