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"
Starlight hex on a v-neck
Driving down the
Staircase with a
Arm full of Jesus
I think you got a vision
You can see the snowflakes, can't you now?
Is this the big good-bye,
Or the start of you and I?
The sky is cracking up
And the ice is falling down
She said, "I'm always comin' out
When the ice is falling down."
She says, "These poems are mine,"
Oh, Oh
"These poems are mine,"
Go, Go
"To your little shrine
Now close your little eyes
From the ages of ruin."
Oh, the pain was awful
Silence broke my neck
I was cheatin' on you with God, baby
But he couldn't get erect
There's no serenity in infinity
So now I'm back from black
And I'm travelin' to another world
Who her? She's comin' with me...
I'll be a goddamn mother fucker
The sky is cracking up
And the ice is falling down
She said, "I'm always comin' out
When the ice is falling down."
She says, "These poems are mine,"
Oh, Oh
"These poems are mine,"
Go, Go
"To your little shrine
Now close your little eyes
From the ages of ruin."
Close your eyes for the ages
Close your eyes for the ages
The sky is cracking up
And the ice is falling down
She said, "I'm always comin' out
When the ice is falling down."
She says, "These poems are mine,"
Oh, Oh
"These poems are mine,"
Go, Go
"To your little shrine
Now close your little eyes
From the ages of ruin."
Driving down the
Staircase with a
Arm full of Jesus
I think you got a vision
You can see the snowflakes, can't you now?
Is this the big good-bye,
Or the start of you and I?
The sky is cracking up
And the ice is falling down
She said, "I'm always comin' out
When the ice is falling down."
She says, "These poems are mine,"
Oh, Oh
"These poems are mine,"
Go, Go
"To your little shrine
Now close your little eyes
From the ages of ruin."
Oh, the pain was awful
Silence broke my neck
I was cheatin' on you with God, baby
But he couldn't get erect
There's no serenity in infinity
So now I'm back from black
And I'm travelin' to another world
Who her? She's comin' with me...
I'll be a goddamn mother fucker
The sky is cracking up
And the ice is falling down
She said, "I'm always comin' out
When the ice is falling down."
She says, "These poems are mine,"
Oh, Oh
"These poems are mine,"
Go, Go
"To your little shrine
Now close your little eyes
From the ages of ruin."
Close your eyes for the ages
Close your eyes for the ages
The sky is cracking up
And the ice is falling down
She said, "I'm always comin' out
When the ice is falling down."
She says, "These poems are mine,"
Oh, Oh
"These poems are mine,"
Go, Go
"To your little shrine
Now close your little eyes
From the ages of ruin."
Lyrics submitted by kittyNAR
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well since im the first, i gotta say this is the best ima robot song ...
I could be totally wrong but what I get from this is someone talking about being high and conversations had while being/being with someone who is high.
"Arm full of Jesus" makes me think of Heroin.
"She said, "I'm always comin' out When the ice is falling down." Ice is another word for meth. "Coming out" usually means you are "yourself" or who you feel yourself to be. So it's like "she" is saying that she's herself when she's coming down from the high.
Having had a friend that was hardcore into drugs and was probably one of the most talented people I've ever known in my life, she always showed me her art when she was doped up on something. It was either a song she wrote, a poem, or a new painting. So I connected that with the line "She says, "These poems are mine," Oh, Oh "These poems are mine," with that. She's just more open to someone seeing her work.
"Oh, the pain was awful Silence broke my neck" is obviously a metaphor. Like it's so silent you could hear a pin drop. Thing is when you are coming down from a drug, it's unlike any other pain you can imagine.
"I was cheatin' on you with God, baby But he couldn't get erect" Drugs are a God, in a sense. They have a way of taking control of people who think they have control. They pray that the next hit is as good as the first. Some drugs cause you to not be able to get an erection. Hence, cheating with God but without an erection. Sex without sex.
"So now I'm back from black And I'm travelin' to another world" I take it as meaning from not being high, to being high.
"Who her? She's comin' with me... I'll be a goddamn mother fucker" I take it as someone deciding to walk the path with him and he's shocked about it. Probably expecting her to give up on him.
"Go, Go "To your little shrine Now close your little eyes From the ages of ruin." A lot of people seek religion during or just before rehabbing. They seek forgiveness for the 'sin' they are willing to commit. Many believe in "out of sight, out of mind" if they close their eyes or are blinded to it, it no longer exists and can't affect them.
Anyhow, again, I could be wrong, but this is what I got out of it. It's still a very beautiful song and the only one that I actually like from Ima Robot. I heard this song life the first time I saw them, almost a decade ago. They were opening for MSI, and immediately fell in love with this song and enjoyed how the front man was climbing all over the walls and railings while performing this song.