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"
Last man to the bottome
Last man to the bottom
Last man to the bottom
I consider myself free
Run run run outside
Keep your head uncovered
Get that kid outside
Are you out of your mind?
You're free!
Watch your mouth
And watch your television
If something don't look right
Dial 1 800 YOU'RE FREE
Free
You're Free
Run run run outside
Get your hair colored
Hang that thing outside
Are you out of your mind?
You're free!
Watch the sky
And yell at television
If something don't look right
Dial 1 800 YOU'RE FREE
Free
You're Free
Last man to the bottom
Last man to the bottom
I consider myself free
Run run run outside
Keep your head uncovered
Get that kid outside
Are you out of your mind?
You're free!
Watch your mouth
And watch your television
If something don't look right
Dial 1 800 YOU'RE FREE
Free
You're Free
Run run run outside
Get your hair colored
Hang that thing outside
Are you out of your mind?
You're free!
Watch the sky
And yell at television
If something don't look right
Dial 1 800 YOU'RE FREE
Free
You're Free
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Free Lyrics as written by Kevin Moore Jim Matheos
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Briefly, the song has 2 parts. The 1st half refers to the commonly held, superficial, western view of freedom. The 2nd half strips away the veneer of freedom and tells you you are anything but free.
OK, more detail:
1st Half : "I consider myself free" This is what any joe will say if you ask him about freedom. What does he mean tho? What does freedom mean to this joe? OSI mocks this version of freedom as being nothing more than the kind of freedom we feel during extreme sports, hence the expression, "last man to the bottom", a common dare in skiing etc.
2nd Half : "You're free [NOT!]" The dead pan way these lyrics are delivered should tell you all is not as it seems. Put a sarcastic "Yeah, right, sure," infront of "You're free" and you get closer to real meaning. Now the juvenille pleasures of extreme sport "freedom" are replaced with a nannying tirade. "Run outside [dear]", a familiar parental instruction to get kids out from under their feet, is swiftly followed by "keep your head covered," a possible slip-slap-slop type reference, and "Get back in" - ie more parental-type nannying. Suddenly or childlike sense of freedom is looking shaky. Next "Outside? Are you otta your mind?" reminds u how outside is becoming dangerous in some areas. Then we're told "watch your mouth". This sounds like more parental nannying, but possibly refers to a curtailing of freedom of speech, rather than simply refraining from swearing. The passage from the initial juvenille perception of freedom, to an adult reality of control is completed withh "If something don't look right, Dial 1-800-YOURE FREE". This is an invitation by th econtrolling forces (state) to not only be afraid, but to become part of the apparatus of control, by becoming an informant - the kind of thing that happened in communist USSR.
There is also a possible ironic use of the free-phone suffix. In many cases, use of "free" services, carries with them a commitment to give out information about yourself and your [shopping] habits. All this information is vital for your control. You get a free service, but give up your freedom.
Hope that helps - by the way, all imho.
Now you've read that you'll wanna go hang outside - remeber, you're free ;-)