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"
Don't want a theocracy
Don't want to share my economy
Fuck that shit about sea to shining sea
I want out of the U.S.A.
But i don't wanna leave C.A.
Jonathan Christ said it best first
Let California stand alone
From Eureka to El Cajon
Fuck the forty-nine
We want our state to be left alone
I don't care where you were born
You're not part owner of California
Don't want to share my economy
Fuck that shit about sea to shining sea
I want out of the U.S.A.
But i don't wanna leave C.A.
Jonathan Christ said it best first
Let California stand alone
From Eureka to El Cajon
Fuck the forty-nine
We want our state to be left alone
I don't care where you were born
You're not part owner of California
Lyrics submitted by punkpirate
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Great version of a great song,
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cool song off the 7 inch of the month.
another political nofx song describing fat mikes black and white thinking about things (even if he is true alot of the time and an excellent muscian).
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The song is singing about California secededing from the 50 states & becoming independent.
There are many website advocating just that. Heres one:
newcaliforniarepublic.org/
"if you dont like something, then MOVE OUT!"
...
you're an idiot.
Move out? That is a moronic statement. If you have a dirty house do you just burn it down or move to a new house? No, you clean it. America is fucked up. I've lived here all my life, but just because it has its shortcomings doesn't mean I should leave. Fat Mike complains and bitches because he sees Americas' potential.
@underthegun897
You my friend, are an arrogant duchebag
wow...and i thought this band couldn't get any more retarded...im scared that so many people listen to them.
if you dont like something, then MOVE OUT!
californias slowly seperating from the rest of the US, so i guess NOFX will get their wish...which makes no sense in the first place.
"This is america, and if you don't like it you can get out!"<br /> <br /> Classic stupid fucking redneck mentality. I bet you also don't care about getting an education, do you?<br /> <br /> I, for one, will say that i don't always agree with fatty, especially after he turned a complete 180 to support peta, which was fucking retarded. But come on man. I bet you love everything about the US huh? Well, the next time a law is passed in your state that you don't agree with, you are not allowed to complain. Cuz if you don't it, you can just leave.