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"
Me and you in love with our
Rule over solid waste
Our artistic merit is questionable
We'll fall on our face
And I can't bare the sight
Not to sound pragmatic
But our parents were right
This ain't adequate
But you can always seek refuge under...
Sunshowers
There's a place for you and a place for me under...
Sunshowers
Return to the burgeoisie while I sift through debris
You view the poverty line as a threshold
For truth in pricey slums
This ain't art school, it's a shark pool
Of well-groomed yuppie scum
And they got orders to kill
Watch them fashion your cell
How'd they get a recording deal
When they're wack as hell
But the chicken-scratch in your sketchbook
It mirrors what you loath
Sunshowers
There's a place for you and a place for me under...
Sunshowers
Sunshowers
There's a place for you and a place for me under...
Sunshowers
They got easels to stain, and uh
People to blame, with their
Egos inflamed, and their
Neat codenames
I saw your sub-genre in a passing glance
It was you and your DJ in matching pants
Sleeping pills and record sleeves
Defaced museum pieces
Concert-goers flailing arms
Taxidermy for the nouveau riche
I don't need this
I don't need this...
Sunshowers
There's a place for you and a place for me under...
Sunshowers
Sunshowers
I don't need this, I don't need this
Sunshowers
Rule over solid waste
Our artistic merit is questionable
We'll fall on our face
And I can't bare the sight
Not to sound pragmatic
But our parents were right
This ain't adequate
But you can always seek refuge under...
Sunshowers
There's a place for you and a place for me under...
Sunshowers
Return to the burgeoisie while I sift through debris
You view the poverty line as a threshold
For truth in pricey slums
This ain't art school, it's a shark pool
Of well-groomed yuppie scum
And they got orders to kill
Watch them fashion your cell
How'd they get a recording deal
When they're wack as hell
But the chicken-scratch in your sketchbook
It mirrors what you loath
Sunshowers
There's a place for you and a place for me under...
Sunshowers
Sunshowers
There's a place for you and a place for me under...
Sunshowers
They got easels to stain, and uh
People to blame, with their
Egos inflamed, and their
Neat codenames
I saw your sub-genre in a passing glance
It was you and your DJ in matching pants
Sleeping pills and record sleeves
Defaced museum pieces
Concert-goers flailing arms
Taxidermy for the nouveau riche
I don't need this
I don't need this...
Sunshowers
There's a place for you and a place for me under...
Sunshowers
Sunshowers
I don't need this, I don't need this
Sunshowers
Lyrics submitted by Coow
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WTF DOES THIS MEAN?! Is this for his love of music of a girl that doesn't match?
Here's my take...<br /> <br /> I've always thought of this song as a couple fresh out of art school trying to find jobs in a market that is already flooded with a ton of equally talented (if not more talented) artists. They are reasonably intelligent and are (at first) confident in their ability and their creativity. However, some time passes with little or no success for either of them. I think the singer is then starting to question the realistic possibility that his career choice is not practical for existence in the monetary world.<br /> <br /> However, the person he's talking to in the song is possibly from a middle-upper or upper class family, and she has something to fall back upon (most likely her parents) if she can't find decent work as an artist for a while. However, the singer (possibly from a lower-class family) doesn't have anything to fall back upon, and is not afforded this luxury.<br /> [I've always though he'd been saying "NO place for me" until I saw these lyrics, but it still sound like "no" to me rather than "and" and it makes a LOT more sense given the other lyrics]<br /> <br /> It seems to me that he tries to explain the nature of the art scene with her, with an ever-increasing realistic outlook. It seems the scene is full of stereotypical, characterless artists who are gaining all the popularity and success. As the song goes on it seems that he is noticing she's selling out to the genre and becoming like everyone else (the well-groomed yuppie scum who are as "wack as hell"). By the end of the song, he becomes more and more irritated at the state of the field, and is still unwilling to compromise his own style and beliefs for popularity and success, culminating in his abandonment of her and/or the art scene.<br /> <br /> Pretty straight forward, I know, but this is a great song, and given the state of how things are in that field right now (and btw by "artist" in my explanation I mean any sort of artistic career), highly realistic.<br /> <br />
The song is terribly sad.<br /> <br /> In actuality, it's in reference to a relationship where both people have similar interests, but for different reasons.<br /> <br /> The person he's talking to is looking for themselves in that high fashion/hipster society; slumming to try and find some sort of truth, involving themselves in an ostensible art community, listening to trend before sound, etc. <br /> <br /> "Taxidermy for the nouveau riche"--I've always loved this line. Think of the dancing bear on stage dead and stuffed for the new rich to admire as a statement against Old Money. This line illustrates the hypocrisy in the "change the world" heart of the yuppie M.O. They all fall into the bourgeois mentality and become counterrevolutionary, spending their money on frivolous bullshit they'd like to call artistic, and "saving" communities by gentrifying them.<br /> <br /> Busdriver doesn't want to associate himself with that movement, he doesn't need it. <br /> <br /> Sunshowers. Natural. That's the only place left he can think of where they'll be compatible. For now, she returns to the soiree with the showy Warhol clones, and he'll stay looking for his truth in what's left of honest passion. <br /> <br />