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"
Sore - all over me
Sore - all over me
Sore - all over me
(I'm sore, all over me)
Sore - all over me
(I'm sore, all over me)
Sore - all over me
(I'm sore, all over me)
Sore - all over me
(I'm sore, all over me)
Mind empty, aching
Don't wash, don't care, no calls
Mind conscious, tiring
Can't see, can't speak, can't think
Sink, sunk, funk, fucked, touched
Scratchy, stuck, stuck, stuck
50 minutes, 52 weeks, 4 years x8
Bored - don't talk to me
Bored - don't talk to me
Bored - don't talk to me
(I'm bored, don't talk to me)
Bored - don't talk to me
(I'm bored, don't talk to me)
Mind conscious, tiring
Can't see, can't speak, can't think
Mind empty, aching
Don't wash, don't care, no calls
Fall, fell, dirt, hurt, broke, choking, spunked, spunked, spunked
50 minutes, 52 weeks, 4 years x16
4 years (to end)
Sore - all over me
Sore - all over me
(I'm sore, all over me)
Sore - all over me
(I'm sore, all over me)
Sore - all over me
(I'm sore, all over me)
Sore - all over me
(I'm sore, all over me)
Mind empty, aching
Don't wash, don't care, no calls
Mind conscious, tiring
Can't see, can't speak, can't think
Sink, sunk, funk, fucked, touched
Scratchy, stuck, stuck, stuck
50 minutes, 52 weeks, 4 years x8
Bored - don't talk to me
Bored - don't talk to me
Bored - don't talk to me
(I'm bored, don't talk to me)
Bored - don't talk to me
(I'm bored, don't talk to me)
Mind conscious, tiring
Can't see, can't speak, can't think
Mind empty, aching
Don't wash, don't care, no calls
Fall, fell, dirt, hurt, broke, choking, spunked, spunked, spunked
50 minutes, 52 weeks, 4 years x16
4 years (to end)
Lyrics submitted by Neota
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does anyone know the significance of 50 minutes, 52 weeks and 4 years? at all? anyone? is it just a random length of time, or is there a reason for it. this song is so sexy, its quite scary.
this song is so beautiful. this could be about that time after youve brooken up with someone and your stuck on thinkin on them an you cant think of anything else. the times could be how the long the realtionshipship was but im not sure. xxxx
i think this song is about a break up. how scattered you feel after you just broke up with some one especially if they were together for a long period of time. the 50 minutes 52 weeks and 4 years i think is just put there to represent a long secluded relationship.
well it's actually like 5 years, 50 minutes cause there's 52 weeks in a year, so it confuses me as to why they would bother saying 52 weeks 4 years. anyone?
I think they say it as '50 minutes, 52 weeks, 4 years' because it works better. Using minutes instead of hours emphersises the time. Also, it flows a lot better in the song because of the (kind-of) alliteration of 'fifty'
To me it sounds like she's saying it as a progression:
50 minutes ---> 52 Weeks ---> 4 years
like the relationship went so quickly, but in reality it lasted 4 years. Which makes the bit when they both sing together saying 50 minutes 52 weeks 4 YEARS!
i don't know whether i'm explaining this correctly! Like 50 minutes of relationship went by, then 52 weeks and finally 4 years and then it ended
it makes sense to me!
that makes perfect sense to me.
i, too, think it is about a break up. also, i like how it can be read as "too weak for years"..also does anyone have the tabs for this song? cant find them anywhere
50 minutes - how long they have sex for. 52 weeks - just a length of time in a year. 4 years - how long the relationship lasted.
i think this song is about the passion at the start of a relationship, the sex and the madness, and then how they just get bored of eachother towards the end, and can't stand to be in eachothers company. then they just feel bad, because nearly everyone does when a relationship ends.
It's about therapy...and its 50 minutes 52 weeks 4 years because of 'poetic licence'..that's what Dee said anyway :)
i also think this song is about breaking up and still thinking about that person nonstop. this song is amazing but sad. i love it. can't stop listening. R.I.D. is the best band ever!