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"
She's flying in the face of fashion now.
She seems to have a will of her own.
She's flying in the face of fashion now.
She seems to have it all chromed.
The time was going so frequently.
She said if I try harder again.
She's flying in the face of fashion now.
She sells the world annually to a friend.
She sings 'World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.
World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.'
She always used to live so secretly.
She'd be seen in and out of the sound.
She's taking on the role of the four winds now.
She's having tea there out in the crowd.
She's flying in the face of fashion now.
She seems to have a will of her own.
In lieu of what you're saying so frequently.
She seems to have, it all adds up.
She sings 'World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.
World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.'
She sings 'World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.
World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.'
'World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.
World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.'
'World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.
World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.'
She seems to have a will of her own.
She's flying in the face of fashion now.
She seems to have it all chromed.
The time was going so frequently.
She said if I try harder again.
She's flying in the face of fashion now.
She sells the world annually to a friend.
She sings 'World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.
World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.'
She always used to live so secretly.
She'd be seen in and out of the sound.
She's taking on the role of the four winds now.
She's having tea there out in the crowd.
She's flying in the face of fashion now.
She seems to have a will of her own.
In lieu of what you're saying so frequently.
She seems to have, it all adds up.
She sings 'World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.
World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.'
She sings 'World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.
World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.'
'World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.
World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.'
'World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.
World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth.'
Lyrics submitted by thecomaboy
World Shut Your Mouth (Julian Cope Cover) Lyrics as written by Julian Cope
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I thought this was a very un-death cabish song, but loved it. not quite as much as their original ones, but they do make the song their own. What i don't like about it is it's very boybandish.
I have only heard DCFC's cover one time, but I was so impressed that I'd love to hear both versions played "back to back", just for good measure! Great job! =)
so good.
I like this song a lot, but I don't really get what it means. I just wonder what "flying in the face of fasion" is. I think that "world shut your mouth" means that she just wants everyone to stop talking about her.
I think it has something to do with the girl not being well known because it said 'she used to live so secretly' but now that she is known more, she wants the world to mind their own business. Im not really sure it that is actually what it has to do with but that what i heard
Flying in the face of fashion: This girl is trying to be herself in a world that doesn't easily accept nonconformists like her.
World shut your mouth: She just wants the world to leave her alone so she can do what she wants.
all i've heard is the DCFC version of this. . . and the meaning to me: about a girl who is a rebel and just wants to live out her life as she pleases. she's out to prove the world wrong.