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 took it too far, I took it too far again
Cut me down
I took it too far, I took it too far again
On the Lower East Side
I took it too far, I took it too far again
Night bleeds into day
I took it too far, I took it too far again
I nearly lost you
I can be cruel, I can be cruel
To you
I can be cruel, I can be cruel
To you, my love
Typical me, typical me brother
Spit the dummy
Typical me, typical me brother
The grass is always green
This city is raised on borrowed time
Taxi meters, police sirens
This city is raised on borrowed time
I nearly lost you
I can be cruel, I can be cruel
To you
I can be cruel, I can be cruel
To you
I can be cruel, I can be cruel
To you
I can be cruel, I can be cruel
To you, my love
Selfish son, selfish brother
(I can be cruel, I can be cruel)
Selfish friend, selfish lover
(To you)
Selfish son, selfish brother
(I can be cruel, I can be cruel)
Selfish life, selfish lover
(To you)
Selfish son, selfish brother
(I can be cruel, I can be cruel)
Selfish friend, selfish lover
(To you)
Selfish son, selfish brother
(I can be cruel, I can be cruel)
Selfish life, selfish lover
(To you, my love)
Cut me down
I took it too far, I took it too far again
On the Lower East Side
I took it too far, I took it too far again
Night bleeds into day
I took it too far, I took it too far again
I nearly lost you
I can be cruel, I can be cruel
To you
I can be cruel, I can be cruel
To you, my love
Typical me, typical me brother
Spit the dummy
Typical me, typical me brother
The grass is always green
This city is raised on borrowed time
Taxi meters, police sirens
This city is raised on borrowed time
I nearly lost you
I can be cruel, I can be cruel
To you
I can be cruel, I can be cruel
To you
I can be cruel, I can be cruel
To you
I can be cruel, I can be cruel
To you, my love
Selfish son, selfish brother
(I can be cruel, I can be cruel)
Selfish friend, selfish lover
(To you)
Selfish son, selfish brother
(I can be cruel, I can be cruel)
Selfish life, selfish lover
(To you)
Selfish son, selfish brother
(I can be cruel, I can be cruel)
Selfish friend, selfish lover
(To you)
Selfish son, selfish brother
(I can be cruel, I can be cruel)
Selfish life, selfish lover
(To you, my love)
Lyrics submitted by Razorlight16
Selfish Son Lyrics as written by Gordon Moakes Russell Lissack
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Selfish son Selfish brother Selfish ? = child
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In friendships and relationships I think we can over-dramatize things. You can choose to be cruel just for the sake of making something stick. It's no fault of the person you're in a bad mood.
Typical me, typical "Libra" Spit the dummy Typical me, typical "Libra" The grass is always green
what is a "me bruv"????
There's this theme of 'cruel' that runs throughout a lot of Bloc Party songs at the minute. e.g. 'Vision of Heaven', 'England'. I just wonder if there is anything in that. I don't really know.
Poor adaptiation of the lyrics though. No offence but typical 'me bruv'??? What were you thinking?
in lots of bloc party songs.album 1 and album 2 there is some key words which play over again in different songs.ive noticed it too.
i like the darkness of this song
I always thought it was "typical me, love" but that's just a guess :) p.s. This is pretty much my favorite Bloc Party song ever.
Its "Typical Libra"
I think it's saying to someone "I can be cruel to you my love" because he's been treated badly by someone, maybe been cheated on? Kele is pretty much saying (i think) I can be cruel to you too, I won't let you get away with it, it's just i love you too much... Well, thats all I make of it.
Good song tho.
This song redeemed Jackknife Lee completely in my eyes and then I found out it was actually produced by Eliot James.
Are the lyrics, "this city is razed" or "this city is raised"? I'm not sure