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's a place where I like to go
When I got no food or I got no shelter
It's a house where I can get away
For maybe three days
To get off the drink and stay off the haze
Who's the opposition I'm seven years down
The human spirit prevails
Yeah I'm down down down
Woke up in the bushes 6:30 Tuesday morning
With a unopened Heineken a head that was burning
For seven years I walked the same path
Dreams of being loved was all I ever had
Who's the opposition I'm seven years down
The human spirit prevails
Yeah I'm down down down
When I got no food or I got no shelter
It's a house where I can get away
For maybe three days
To get off the drink and stay off the haze
Who's the opposition I'm seven years down
The human spirit prevails
Yeah I'm down down down
Woke up in the bushes 6:30 Tuesday morning
With a unopened Heineken a head that was burning
For seven years I walked the same path
Dreams of being loved was all I ever had
Who's the opposition I'm seven years down
The human spirit prevails
Yeah I'm down down down
Lyrics submitted by IllusoryFreedom
7 Years Down Lyrics as written by Timothy Armstrong Roger M. Freeman
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
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This is a great song about quitting drugs and drinking the 'whos the opposition' part referring to a struggle where the only enemy is yourself i think the seven years down thing is just like him sayin he been clean for 7 years... which is an incredible feat for a punk rocka
and that last chorus is somethin like
"????kids smoking crack and drinkin They Said I don't belong here, fuck you mohican They call me a faggot and they shove me out. But I don't give a fuck, I never did."
this is about tim's personal struggle with drugs/alcohol and the shelter he would go to to get clean
yeh thats right, is about tims drinkin problem
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Some lyrics Where left out
Let's... GO!
Yeah!!!
Down on ferry kids smokin' crack and drinkin' they said you don't bellong here,fuck you mom and dad, They call me a faggot and they shove me out. But I don't give a fuck, I never did!
Who's the opposition I'm 7 years down The human spirit prevails Oh yeah, I'm down down down [x2]
hey ska-face hmm I was pretty positive the lyric "they said you don't belong here, fuck you mohican" which was a reference to him having a mohawk let me insert something here
"MOHICAN: A hairstyle in which the entire scalp is shaved, save a strip of hair from the forehead to the neck. This is usually dyed and/or spiked up. also known as the mohawk "
but the meaning is pretty much what cranefist said
yeh i heard that too. didn't think neone else would notice that.
There's a mistake in the lyrics, it's actually "Dreams of being loved was all I ever had" not "A drinking beer mug was all I every had".