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"
I don't wanna know your name (my vice grips)
I don't wanna know your name (bad vice cops)
I don't wanna know your name (the prescription doesn't scan)
We start shrinking
When we hit that grill you know we will
Don't beat around the black jack night
Don't beat around the black jack night
Don't beat around the black jack night
Don't beat around the black jack night
(My brain hurts, you're own your own from here)
I don't wanna know your name (bad vice cops)
I don't wanna know your name (the prescription doesn't scan)
We start shrinking
When we hit that grill you know we will
Don't beat around the black jack night
Don't beat around the black jack night
Don't beat around the black jack night
Don't beat around the black jack night
(My brain hurts, you're own your own from here)
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Mustache.
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mustache mustache mustache mustache
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Holy shit, sarcophaga is right! Thats amazing
i think it's "my tv's louder than yours, my grandma's blacker than yours" but hey it might just be me.
anyways. this song is oddly sexy, just the groove of it.
I also think it's "The carney's not my son" As well as "Don't beat around the black jack night Don't want to shave my moustache right Don't want to see my head in light Don't wanna be the sunset"
I agree with the "shave my moustache right" part.<br /> <br /> Does anyone know the significance of "Black Jack Night"?<br /> I heard it as "black jack knife" - "jackknife" play on words; double-edged swords on a black jack playing card...
MUSTACHE!MUSTASHE!MUSTASH! sometimes i say that while walking around school
i always thought it said "black jackknife"