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"
Say the word and I�ll be healed
opened eyes grease my wheels
Since my vision�s be restored
Trip me once shame on you
Trip me twice I�m the fool
Thought it�s hidden I�ve been cured
Patience is divine but the virtue is not mine
Turn you cheek gets ripped off
That�s why God gave us four
This is how you spend life
Amused by another�s strife
Makes me so sad and confused
Someone�s pain you leisure
Can�t explain sick pleasure
I�m so glad I�m not you
Patience is divine but the virtue is not mine
Turn you cheek gets ripped off
That�s why God gave us four
Throwing wrenches gave a false sense of power
What started sweet will soon turn sour
You think it�s your place to dispense justice
Well I�ve been sent to judge the judges
God damn love 'cause it�s breaking my heart
And if I had one wish I�d see in the dark
Tripping a blind man so easy to do
Tripping a blind man why can�t it be you?
You want to play God and I know you will
If that�s the case I�ll be the devil
Now who the fuck are you to discipline me
Innocence condemned by the guilty?
God damn love 'cause it�s breaking my heart
And if I had one wish I�d see in the dark
Tripping a blind man so easy to do
Tripping a blind man why can�t it be you?
Losing his grip of his seeing eye dog�s spikey collar
Panicking, the startled pet ran to the street
Sanitation truck skidding unable to stop
Shoveled up what was left of his canine spot
As they left, the ground turned muddy crimson
Where�s my mutt? The victim requested
EMS responded �he had to say bye�
Teary eyed, the old man cried then died
Patience is divine but the virtue is not mine
Turn your cheek gets ripped off
That's why God gave us four
opened eyes grease my wheels
Since my vision�s be restored
Trip me once shame on you
Trip me twice I�m the fool
Thought it�s hidden I�ve been cured
Patience is divine but the virtue is not mine
Turn you cheek gets ripped off
That�s why God gave us four
This is how you spend life
Amused by another�s strife
Makes me so sad and confused
Someone�s pain you leisure
Can�t explain sick pleasure
I�m so glad I�m not you
Patience is divine but the virtue is not mine
Turn you cheek gets ripped off
That�s why God gave us four
Throwing wrenches gave a false sense of power
What started sweet will soon turn sour
You think it�s your place to dispense justice
Well I�ve been sent to judge the judges
God damn love 'cause it�s breaking my heart
And if I had one wish I�d see in the dark
Tripping a blind man so easy to do
Tripping a blind man why can�t it be you?
You want to play God and I know you will
If that�s the case I�ll be the devil
Now who the fuck are you to discipline me
Innocence condemned by the guilty?
God damn love 'cause it�s breaking my heart
And if I had one wish I�d see in the dark
Tripping a blind man so easy to do
Tripping a blind man why can�t it be you?
Losing his grip of his seeing eye dog�s spikey collar
Panicking, the startled pet ran to the street
Sanitation truck skidding unable to stop
Shoveled up what was left of his canine spot
As they left, the ground turned muddy crimson
Where�s my mutt? The victim requested
EMS responded �he had to say bye�
Teary eyed, the old man cried then died
Patience is divine but the virtue is not mine
Turn your cheek gets ripped off
That's why God gave us four
Lyrics submitted by LordDionysius
Tripping A Blind Man Lyrics as written by Peter Steele-ratajczyk
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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tripping a blind man can be fun. go home and think of all your guilt you filthy devil-scum!
well, i think type o is saying that they wish the tripper could be a blind man for once and they (peter or someone else in the band) would love to trip them so they know how it feels.
I think its about being deceived in some way. You are are blind to it when it happens and when we realize we are being used its like tripping a blind man. Perhaps the old mans dog is a symbol for trust and when it gets hit by the garbage truck it is the death of trust.... just a thought
what's he say at the end? "read your rights, read them twice"?
" In Your Eyes - Insects, Flies" Is what I use to think. Now I'm not sure.
I clearly hear 'feed your vice; be sick twice.'
"turn your cheek, gets ripped off, thats why we're given four" lmao for a while i thought he said "turn your cheek insert tongue that is what were here for", but the other one is funnier and makes more sense for the song. I saw an interview with pete saying it was written out of anger at his family for sending him to rehab, jail, and the psych ward. "i used to have five older sisters, now i dont" i feel bad for the guy... but i can relate, simmilar stuff has happened
Where can i get this song?
iTunes :P
I interpreted this song being about his girlfriend(s) as a lot of them were. But after reading what others have said, I see it a little differently now. I agree that it sounds like when his family made him go to rehab.