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"
She upset the weather
She upset my sweet cloud
Growing black
Thick and heavy
Strike me now gonna put me down
She upset my brother
She upset his sweetheart
I love him so I do not kill
I know no words to make it right
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
But I'll do anything to bring my brother alive
I know no words to fix my killing
But I'll do anything to bring my brother alive
Lost a lot of blood
Lost a lot of cool cool
Lost a lot of blood
Lost a lot of cool cool cool
She upset his morning
She upset his afternoon
I see no way
I see no right
The night calls it stays on the night
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
But I'll do anything to bring my brother alive
I know no words to fix my killing
But I'll do anything to bring my brother alive
Lost a lot of blood
Lost a lot of cool cool
Lost a lot of blood
Lost a lot of cool cool cool
Lost a lot of blood
Lost a lot of cool cool cool
Lost a lot of blood
Lost a lot of cool cool cool
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
But I'll do anything to bring my brother alive
I know no words to fix my killing
But I'll do anything to bring my brother alive
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
She upset my sweet cloud
Growing black
Thick and heavy
Strike me now gonna put me down
She upset my brother
She upset his sweetheart
I love him so I do not kill
I know no words to make it right
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
But I'll do anything to bring my brother alive
I know no words to fix my killing
But I'll do anything to bring my brother alive
Lost a lot of blood
Lost a lot of cool cool
Lost a lot of blood
Lost a lot of cool cool cool
She upset his morning
She upset his afternoon
I see no way
I see no right
The night calls it stays on the night
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
But I'll do anything to bring my brother alive
I know no words to fix my killing
But I'll do anything to bring my brother alive
Lost a lot of blood
Lost a lot of cool cool
Lost a lot of blood
Lost a lot of cool cool cool
Lost a lot of blood
Lost a lot of cool cool cool
Lost a lot of blood
Lost a lot of cool cool cool
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
But I'll do anything to bring my brother alive
I know no words to fix my killing
But I'll do anything to bring my brother alive
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
I know no words to fix my killing
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I would love to know what this song means cause i really like it and its the only Kills song i have ehard but i love the "Lost a lot of blood, lost a lot of cool cool." line anyone know?
That line's in At The Back Of The Shell too :) "See I've upset my brother. See I've upset his sweet heart. I love him so, in turn I kill. I know no words to make it right. I know no words to fix my killing. I know no words to fix my killing, but I'll do anything to bring my brother alive." Her brother and his girlfriend/wife/whatever break up so he kills himself, and she feels like it's her fault for some reason. That's my guess :)
I do believe that the whole album No Wow is telling a story. In short, a girl is going out with a boy, but he pisses her off. After taking some drugs, she goes nuts and kills him.
This song is her reaction post her murder.
"See I've upset the weather. See I've upset my sweet cloud."
This is basically an ironical way to say that she is upset, she was living in her "sweet cloud" and because of the boy (she doesn't to say it's because of her) her life is upside down.
"I know no words to fix my killing." It's pretty self explinatatory.
"but I'll do anything to bring my brother alive." Her brother finding out about what his sister did (kill her boyfriend) must have commited sucide or something, but I'm not really sure. She is upset and wants her bro to be back in any case.
I didn't take it as literally... It seems more like, she doesn't really approve of whomever her boyfriend is dating and she upsets her, but only because of how much she loves her brother and wants the best for him and no one will ever be good enough for him in her eyes. She knows no way to fix her killing... she doesn't know how to start being nice to the girl and feel okay about their relationship, but she knows she needs to because he loves this girl.
Now that I've read everyone else's I'm not sure, and maybe if you look at the whole album it's different but this is how I first interpreted the song.
I think it's about drug relapse. 'She' in the song could be drugs or a drug connection. Maybe she's an addict feeling guilty for doing drugs again and break his brother's heart or maybe her brother is the addict and she's trying to save him by getting rid of his drug buddy/dealer or his drug stash. Since the lyrics says "will do" and not "would do" I believe her brother is not really dead.