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"
Liars.
Liars. All you bands should just retire.
You sing the songs of hypocrites.
Like nuns with guns or chicks with dicks. Two. Four. Six. Eight.
Buy our shit and regurgitate.
I'm so bored with all of us.
Kill yourselves.
Please. I'm down here on my knees.
I'm begging darlin' ease my worried mind.
What makes you think you have something to say that has not been said in a much better way?
I've got power chord blues, ears jammed with feedback.
Songs with no soul and even less of a sack.
Went to the record store and what the fuck did I find?
Thousands of records by thousands of kids
with overpriced budgets but not one hint of a mind.
Ludwig would be crying.
Cash would slit your throat.
Dee Dee wound up dying.
Biz would hate your flow.
Talk, talk, talk, talk but you've nothing to say.
My headphones hate you.
Silence is golden when you sound like my shit.
My stereo hates you.
Say something new or say nothing at all. My eardrums hate all you Guitar Center punks with broken record syndrome.
Songs of straight edge and friends, shit we already know.
What's the point?
Knock, knock, knock.
Who's there?
It's me!
Every song from 1983.
I heard myself on your LP's.
No way!
I did!
It couldn't be!
See, we mix Cro Mags with The Clash!
Well it sounds like every other piece of trash.
Aren't you tired?
Don't you want something new?
Take back 1983.
While you're at it, take the rest of punk rock, too.
I want more.
Liars. All you bands should just retire.
You sing the songs of hypocrites.
Like nuns with guns or chicks with dicks. Two. Four. Six. Eight.
Buy our shit and regurgitate.
I'm so bored with all of us.
Kill yourselves.
Please. I'm down here on my knees.
I'm begging darlin' ease my worried mind.
What makes you think you have something to say that has not been said in a much better way?
I've got power chord blues, ears jammed with feedback.
Songs with no soul and even less of a sack.
Went to the record store and what the fuck did I find?
Thousands of records by thousands of kids
with overpriced budgets but not one hint of a mind.
Ludwig would be crying.
Cash would slit your throat.
Dee Dee wound up dying.
Biz would hate your flow.
Talk, talk, talk, talk but you've nothing to say.
My headphones hate you.
Silence is golden when you sound like my shit.
My stereo hates you.
Say something new or say nothing at all. My eardrums hate all you Guitar Center punks with broken record syndrome.
Songs of straight edge and friends, shit we already know.
What's the point?
Knock, knock, knock.
Who's there?
It's me!
Every song from 1983.
I heard myself on your LP's.
No way!
I did!
It couldn't be!
See, we mix Cro Mags with The Clash!
Well it sounds like every other piece of trash.
Aren't you tired?
Don't you want something new?
Take back 1983.
While you're at it, take the rest of punk rock, too.
I want more.
Lyrics submitted by RyanMcGinnis
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Haha whoops I meant to post that on Wonder Years. THIS song is about the shit music that's out there nowadays.
About in-authenticity in music. Love the guitar center line. He's also criticizing the hardcore community - many bands only sing about community friends 'shit we already know'. He's frustrated that this potentially limitless style of music is just repeating itself.
Also, he lists a number of influences - classical, country, hip-hop. . . most of his contemporaries wouldn't admit they listen to anything but hardcore. <br /> <br /> This guy is smart.
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