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"
There are people who are pushing me on the train,
screaming from the top of buildings (your going to get whats comming)
And I dont no how to react or if I should fight back
He could have a knife, stab me in the gut,
bleading on the floor
should've kept my mouth shut
And I dont no how to react or if i should fight back
Ice cream is going to save the day
Ice cream is going to save the day, again
I don't need a number, I just wanna dance with my shirt off
I don't want no other, I just wanna dance
He could have a knife, stab me in the gut,
bleading on the floor
should've kept my mouth shut
And I dont no how to react or if I should fight back
Ice cream is going to save the day
Ice cream is going to save the day again
Ice cream is going to save the day again
Ice cream is going to save the day again
I don't need a number, I just wanna dance with my shirt off
I don't want no other, I just wanna dance
screaming from the top of buildings (your going to get whats comming)
And I dont no how to react or if I should fight back
He could have a knife, stab me in the gut,
bleading on the floor
should've kept my mouth shut
And I dont no how to react or if i should fight back
Ice cream is going to save the day
Ice cream is going to save the day, again
I don't need a number, I just wanna dance with my shirt off
I don't want no other, I just wanna dance
He could have a knife, stab me in the gut,
bleading on the floor
should've kept my mouth shut
And I dont no how to react or if I should fight back
Ice cream is going to save the day
Ice cream is going to save the day again
Ice cream is going to save the day again
Ice cream is going to save the day again
I don't need a number, I just wanna dance with my shirt off
I don't want no other, I just wanna dance
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GOD I LOVE THIS SONG!!! i reckon its about how he wants to stay a kid or innosent (ice-cream) or party with no care in the world...
but there are people always there to make things crap... like bullies... "pushing on the train"
screaming from the top of buildings "youre gonna get whats coming"
also:
he could have a knife stab me in the gut bleeding on the floor shoulda kept my mouth shut
and i dont know how to react or if i should fight back
like they are always trying to look for a reason to do something bad... like if you avoid the situation you could be safe... and he doesn't know what to do afterwards what consequence...
it about responsibility as well... but ice cream saves the day... it makes everything disappear :P YAY!!!
muscles does it again! woooooooooooo! aaaaaaaaaaaaah! i heard that muscles was about to step onto a street and would have been hit by a car if a guy in an icecream truck didnt yell out for him to stop. hence - "ice cream is gonna save the day" can anyone confirm this for me?
I agree with akaputtputt, I absolutly adore this song I listen to it about 5 times a day, drives people nuts but I cant get enought...Iceeeecreeammm!!
i think this song might be about someone who went to the cronulla riots, but werent really affiliated with either side of the fight
"he could have a knife stabe me in the gut bleeding on the floor should have kept my mouth shout"
and then also
"i just wanna dance with my shirt off" - because lots of the "aussies" or anglo australians were depicted without shirts
"there are people who are pushing me on the train" - many people used trains from the western suburbs to get to cronulla, it is on these trains as well, where a lot of the violence took place
"screaming from the top of buildings "youre gonna get whats coming" "
several people were reported to have climbed to the roof of the rsl and were shouting racial taunts and abuse
this could be far fetched but it seems that there is a lot of evidence to back it up
asherap, I think the line "I don't need a number" has a double meaning - in addition to not wanting someone's number at a club it also reminds us that numbers define so much of our lives - social security numbers, student numbers, bank accounts - you know the drill. We are considered just numbers in many aspects of society. So the singer doesn't want to feel restrained with a number, he just wants to be free... with his shirt off. ;)
So is a pretty dark interpretation but it fits so well i think it may be on the money...
I think it is about the rounding up and shipping out of Jewish and the other 'unwanted' through out Nazi occupied France during WW2, now before you write me off as crazy, please just read through and it'll make total sense. Watch the deportation scene at the start of Sarah's Key and you'll get it straight away. The upbeat style is in juxtaposition to the meaning, but if you listen to the acoustic set, it is pretty mournful.
there are people who are pushing me on the train - (Rounding up people and forcing them onto the trains taking them off to the camps) screaming from the top of buildings "youre gonna get whats coming" - (Due to the propaganda that was running, there were many who were happy to see these people getting shipped off) and i dont know how to react or if i should fight back - (people were stunned and often didn't try to resist, the hate and the vitriol thrown their way by people who had been their neighbors)
he could have a knife stab me in the gut bleeding on the floor shoulda kept my mouth shut (I think this is either in the ghetto's/camps or even with guards on the train)
i dont need a number (the number being a reference to the tattoo numbers that the they put on all inmates) i just wanna dance with my shirt off (freedom)
and of course "Ice Cream is going to Save the Day" and you're thinking how could this relate... but it would also be something the American soldiers could have used to try and nourish the severely malnourished survivors when they liberated the camps being both full of fats and easily digested - and so it would have saved the day.
you know. i first heard this song, and deemed it as this awesome dancy party song, but now as i listen to it over and over again, it seems like there is so much more meaning within this. i feel that it is just a ballad of feelings concerning fright and happiness and blah blahblabhalbh i just love it!!!dgklfhdflg1
Yeah me too at first all i really heard was 'I just want to dance with my shirt off' and that alone appealed to me. But you need to hear it a few times before you can really appreciate it. I love this song
i love this song x 9837648927198469826489208017489689 it's my favourite ever. it makes me happy. I LOVE MUSCLES (:
i dont need a number i just wanna dance with my shirt off and i dont want no other i just wanna dance
Ok coming from a young college student, this part of the song most definetly refers to the use of ecstasy within the dance community. The one thing you want to do when affected by the drug is dance like a madman often with your shirt off. I dont need a number muscles is refering to not wanting to "pick up" or make contact with women because when your beaming on ecstasy you dont want anything else but to dance, sweating then taking your shirt off.
open shut case in my opinion for this part of the song