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"
Only angels have wings, girl
And poets have all the words
The earth belongs to the two of us
And the sky belongs to the birds
You've given me so much happiness
That I'll wrap up and give you this song
You gotta grab it with both hands
You gotta keep hanging on
Gotta keep hanging on
You gotta keep hanging on
You gotta keep,
You gotta keep hanging on
The cat walks to the window
And I hear the key turn in the door
No one knows and anything goes
And everything falls on the floor
The apartment starts shaking
And the roof opens up to the sun
The crows flying in parallel lines
And ah ah ah
You gotta keep hanging on
You gotta keep hanging on
Hanging on, keep hanging on
Ah ah ah
Laying in each other's arms
We're sleepy, we begin to nod
And we start to dream of grandiose things
Oh God, oh God, oh God
You gotta keep hanging on
You gotta keep hanging on
You gotta keep hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hanging on
You gotta keep hanging on
You gotta keep hanging on
You gotta keep
Ah ah ah
And poets have all the words
The earth belongs to the two of us
And the sky belongs to the birds
You've given me so much happiness
That I'll wrap up and give you this song
You gotta grab it with both hands
You gotta keep hanging on
Gotta keep hanging on
You gotta keep hanging on
You gotta keep,
You gotta keep hanging on
The cat walks to the window
And I hear the key turn in the door
No one knows and anything goes
And everything falls on the floor
The apartment starts shaking
And the roof opens up to the sun
The crows flying in parallel lines
And ah ah ah
You gotta keep hanging on
You gotta keep hanging on
Hanging on, keep hanging on
Ah ah ah
Laying in each other's arms
We're sleepy, we begin to nod
And we start to dream of grandiose things
Oh God, oh God, oh God
You gotta keep hanging on
You gotta keep hanging on
You gotta keep hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hanging on
You gotta keep hanging on
You gotta keep hanging on
You gotta keep
Ah ah ah
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Great version of a great song,
This song is about having something perfect in your hands and wanting to hold on to it forever. I think it's also about the struggle to maintain this feeling of excitement in a long-term relationship, with all of the trappings of everyday life flooding in to the picture.
Grant is so on the mark here, it might be my favorite song ever.
I don't think Hart (or anyone) ever put so much passion and soul into his vocals as on this song. Whatever it's supposed to be about, I think anyone can relate to the main message for any number of situations in life where you just gotta keep hanging on. It could be someone who is sick, depressed, or in any dire situation.
If we really want to know specifically what this meant for Grant who wrote it, I think these lines are key:
The cat walks to the window And I hear the key turn in the door No one knows and anything goes And everything falls on the floor The apartment starts shaking And the roof opens up to the sun The crows flying in parallel lines
Did someone come home and catch him using drugs? He hears them and drops his works on the floor? The roof opening up to the sun, is that about something being revealed? What is the line about crows flying in parallel lines about? For me these don't have to be "about" anything, they are kind of cool & potent as abstract feelings or thoughts.
Someone connected the word "nod" with heroin. I don't know if Hart was yet involved in the drug by this point, anyone? But it would seem they knew or knew of people who were, from earlier tunes like "Pink turns to blue" and the drug showing up in other punk scenes at the time. The lines:
We're sleepy, we begin to nod And we start to dream of grandiose things Oh God, oh God, oh God
could be interpreted as ODing and hanging on meaning you just have to keep breathing and make it through the overdose.
But I find the song & lyrics more ambiguous and interesting than that. It could be about or for any situation or people who need to be encouraged to make it through a tough time and keep the will to survive.
This might be my favorite Husker song, easily in the top 5!
How i love this song...even if i absolutly don't know what it's about and can't translate it all clearly, the language is not a problem any more with their music...Grant and Bob make it clear with the sound of their voices and you understand them with you own language...all the emotions, all the meaning, you got it when the guitars are turning in the air and when you start crying.
How i love this song...even if i absolutly don't know what it's about and can't translate it all clearly, the language is not a problem any more with their music...Grant and Bob make it clear with the sound of their voices and you understand them with you own language...all the emotions, all the meaning, you got it when the guitars are turning in the air and when you start crying.
Nod = Heroin