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 hope my little brother puts a call in today
I hope he don't forget where he came from
I hope he never has to deal with wrongin' someone
'Cause I lived with many ghosts when I was younger
And I will live with many ghosts until I go
[Chorus:]
I hope he's right in the head
I hope he's right in the head
I hope he's right in the head
Even if he has to wrong someone
[Chorus]
and I hope his guardian angel puts a gun in his hand
If ever they get ambushed or pursued
I hope she sticks around when he does dirty in this dirty duel he's brewed
And though the names will get changed to protect the innocent
He said, "I hope the names will get changed to protect me."
[Chorus: x2]
'Cause I lived with many ghosts when I was younger
And I will live with many ghosts until I go
I hope he don't forget where he came from
I hope he never has to deal with wrongin' someone
'Cause I lived with many ghosts when I was younger
And I will live with many ghosts until I go
[Chorus:]
I hope he's right in the head
I hope he's right in the head
I hope he's right in the head
Even if he has to wrong someone
[Chorus]
and I hope his guardian angel puts a gun in his hand
If ever they get ambushed or pursued
I hope she sticks around when he does dirty in this dirty duel he's brewed
And though the names will get changed to protect the innocent
He said, "I hope the names will get changed to protect me."
[Chorus: x2]
'Cause I lived with many ghosts when I was younger
And I will live with many ghosts until I go
Lyrics submitted by illiterature7
Right in the Head Lyrics as written by Matthew Stephen Ward
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I heard him play this song live - and this is the real lyrics! "I hope she (the guardian angel) sticks around when he (the brother) turns 30 and this dirty tour of duty is through"
I'm hearing "I hope she sticks around when he turns 30, and this dirty tour of duty is through".
Totally makes sense in the context of the song. The lyrics above seem a bit meaningless and convoluted, given how straightforward the rest of the song is about a brother serving in the military.
yeah, it's amazing. does anyone know what this lyric:
"I hope she sticks around when he does dirty in this dirty duel he's brewed"
actually is? i did my best to hear it but i'm really unsatisfied with my interpretation. everything else i'm pretty sure on.
yeah, it's amazing. does anyone know what this lyric:
"I hope she sticks around when he does dirty in this dirty duel he's brewed"
actually is? i did my best to hear it but i'm really unsatisfied with my interpretation. everything else i'm pretty sure on.
yeah, it's amazing. does anyone know what this lyric:
"I hope she sticks around when he does dirty in this dirty duel he's brewed"
actually is? i did my best to hear it but i'm really unsatisfied with my interpretation. everything else i'm pretty sure on.
I'm pretty sure the lyric is
"I hope his guardian angel puts a gun in his hand, if ever they get ambushed or pursued. I hope she sticks around when he does dirty in this dirty, dirty duel he has brewed. And though the names will get changed to protected the innocent. And he said all the names will get changed to protect me."
god that triple post is so shameful
I'm pretty sure it's something like i hope she sticks around when he does ?dirty/thirty? and his dirty tour of duty is through.
Amazing song.
THIS IS THE REAL LYRICS: "I hope she sticks around when he does thirty and and his dirty, dirty duel he has brewed. And though the names will get changed to protect the innocent, he said, "I hope the names will get changed to protect me."
I have a feeling he might've changed it for the live version, 'cause I don't hear that in the song - though I do like that version, too.