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"
[Chorus: ]
He's the alphabet pony
He's the alphabet pony
Phony monkey toy money lose end soda hands
Pink plastic Jesus on the dashboard
Just say it
[Chorus: ]
No fun not happy got no money need a friend
A volcano dish on a mountaintop to live it
[Chorus: Repeat 2X]
Cancel Sunday
Cancel Monday
Don't look at me
I've been running on a no-tomorrow road at great speed
N-n-n-need a punch
A pop a bang
A different song
Like a nice new home
Needs a mean stray dog
[Chorus: Repeat 2X]
Oh we go up down
Up down up down town again
We like the walk the talk
Don't stop and fall into the quicksand
Sharp teeth dry heat
Can't breach too many sins
Don't forget my cigarettes
And get something that we can drink
[Chorus: Repeat 2X]
He's the alphabet pony
He's the alphabet pony
Phony monkey toy money lose end soda hands
Pink plastic Jesus on the dashboard
Just say it
[Chorus: ]
No fun not happy got no money need a friend
A volcano dish on a mountaintop to live it
[Chorus: Repeat 2X]
Cancel Sunday
Cancel Monday
Don't look at me
I've been running on a no-tomorrow road at great speed
N-n-n-need a punch
A pop a bang
A different song
Like a nice new home
Needs a mean stray dog
[Chorus: Repeat 2X]
Oh we go up down
Up down up down town again
We like the walk the talk
Don't stop and fall into the quicksand
Sharp teeth dry heat
Can't breach too many sins
Don't forget my cigarettes
And get something that we can drink
[Chorus: Repeat 2X]
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i'm so glad i looked these lyrics up, i've been thinking it's "like a nice new pope, needs a meat straight dong" :| :| :| :|
LOL, you never should have looked them up.
WOOOW! LMAO! think i like that better
haha! i thought she said pope too :P
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When I read these lyrics I picture this as the alphabet pony seeing the life of a poor family through it's own eyes.
The alphabet pony goes everywhere with the little boy, so he experiences the dirty "soda hands" of the boy, he thinks the stuffed monkey is "phoney", he sees the jesus on the dashboard of a poor family trying to hold onto their faith.
I think the last two verses are more about the single mom (you can tell I've thought about this) who is scatterbrained and can't seem to settle into a routine, probably works a crazy schedule (hence the cancel sunday cancel monday). The Mom works hard for what they have but struggles to get by; the boy and the Mom walk the town and she buys cigarettes and something to drink.
They have an okay life.
My favourite :)
isnt the pink plastic jesus think in one of jack johnson's songs?
Instead of n-n-n-need a punch I think it's "and now I need a punch" but I could be wrong
ps. I think it's 'pink plastic jesus on the dashboard'. That's the line that stood out at me the first time I heard it.
me too! O:
hah yeah that makes more sense. i changed it :)
these lyrics are so wrong i don't know where to begin. buy the album and check out the lyrics from the booklet then fix this please!
Yeah, they totally are!
For example, it says, "fall into the QUICKSAND". and "Like a nice new HOME needs a mean stray dog".
What's the real point of this song? I love it, but it's a bit random, like something Peaches would sing.
What does this even mean? I'm so confused!