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'll take back my pinata it's wasted on you
Just spinning that pool cue all over the room
And give back the blindfold that's under your shoe
[Chorus]
Let's drink, drink this town is so great
Drink, drink 'cause it's never too late
To drink, drink to no big surprise
But what words rhyme with buried alive
What words rhyme with buried alive
You could be a float for the 4th of July
Based on your theme of wallflowers grown wild
Look through your peephole, you've won every prize
[Chorus]
In your monkey suit on a cigarette break
The lunchtime crowd, they won't even blink
But you'd be sad if they did
But you'll be sad
[Chorus]
Just spinning that pool cue all over the room
And give back the blindfold that's under your shoe
[Chorus]
Let's drink, drink this town is so great
Drink, drink 'cause it's never too late
To drink, drink to no big surprise
But what words rhyme with buried alive
What words rhyme with buried alive
You could be a float for the 4th of July
Based on your theme of wallflowers grown wild
Look through your peephole, you've won every prize
[Chorus]
In your monkey suit on a cigarette break
The lunchtime crowd, they won't even blink
But you'd be sad if they did
But you'll be sad
[Chorus]
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The narrator opens for scolding the already drunk second person. The drunk is mindlessly whacking at the pinata - and he's not even blindfolded!
The song switches to sarcasm in the refrain, as if the narrator is describing the situation from the drunk's point of view. He points out that there's "no big surprise" in getting drunk and foreshadows the demise of the drunk; "burried alive".
Next we learn more about the drunk, who is described as a wallflower. Usually, people who are wallflowers at parties or bars don't feel as though they belong, and drink to compensate. "Look through your peephole" describes how the drunk has shut himself off to the people around him.
Finally, we see into the drunk's job. He's wearing a monkey suit (tuxedo), maybe working for a hotel or restaurant. The point is he's ignored by the lunchtime crowd. All the same, he doesn't want attention paid to him. Poor guy feels like a peon, so continues his downfall into alcoholism.
Maybe there is no second person, and the narrator is actually the drunk. Who knows? There are so many ways to interpret They Might Be Giants.