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Backwards Walk Lyrics
i'm working on my backwards walk
walking with no shoes or socks
and the time rewinds to the end of may
i wish we'd never met then met today
i'm working on my faults and cracks
filling in the blanks and gaps
and when i write them out they don't make sense
i need you to pencil in the rest
i'm working on drawing a straight line
and i'll draw until i get one right
it's bold and dark girl, can't you see
i done drawn a line between you and me
i'm working on erasing you
just don't have the proper tools
i get hammered, forget that you exist
there's no way i'm forgetting this
i'm working hard on walking out
shoes keep sticking to the ground
my clothes won't let me close the door
these trousers seem to love your floor
i been working on my backwards walk
there's nowhere else for me to go
except back to you just one last time
say yes before i change my mind
say yes before i...
you're the shit and i'm knee-deep in it
walking with no shoes or socks
and the time rewinds to the end of may
i wish we'd never met then met today
filling in the blanks and gaps
and when i write them out they don't make sense
i need you to pencil in the rest
and i'll draw until i get one right
it's bold and dark girl, can't you see
i done drawn a line between you and me
just don't have the proper tools
i get hammered, forget that you exist
there's no way i'm forgetting this
shoes keep sticking to the ground
my clothes won't let me close the door
these trousers seem to love your floor
there's nowhere else for me to go
except back to you just one last time
say yes before i change my mind
you're the shit and i'm knee-deep in it
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You have no idea how perfect this song is.
"i'm working on erasing you just don't have the proper tools i get hammered, forget that you exist there's no way i'm forgetting this"
It's crazy how much I can relate to this part. To me, it seems like he wants to forget someone but he can't bring himself to do it, like he doesn't "have the proper tools" to do so. So he turns to drinking to try to solve the problem, but he knows that won't work.
I know I say this whenever I post on this site ... but this is jst toooo spooky how I can soooo relate to this track .... knowing someone is wrong for u and being unable to leave him/her ..... u're the sh1t and I' m knee deep in it ... sighs
Clothes won't let me close the door - GENIUS! But yeah, when i heard this for the first time at the album launch I was just like "Wow, that's so true". "Say yes before I change my mind" sent chills down me. And "you're the shit and i'm knee deep in it" is ultimately heartbreaking but surprisingly bop-able at the same time! Perfect pop music!
I think this song is the reason why I fell in love with Frightened Rabbit in the first place. Beautiful and simply perfect.
I love the end so much the whole song i'm just waiting for it haha
The line is "i wish we'd never met that MAN today"!
Its clearly saying she cheated on him and he wants to go back in time to before that happened,that would make things all good again right?
Every song on the album has an underlying theme of cheating, as his girl cheated on him before he wrote the album.
Heres an ironic point... In the second song on the album called "i feel better" he says "this the last song i write about you" Ironically there are 12 more songs after this one lol, i know this dont relate to this song i jus thought it was funny.
I think are right!
I think are right!
I thought I deciphered this sentence and when 'the penny dropped' I almost cried.
I thought I deciphered this sentence and when 'the penny dropped' I almost cried.
It might sound convoluted or maybe I'm trying to stretch it to what I want to see, but I thought it was a great concept.
It might sound convoluted or maybe I'm trying to stretch it to what I want to see, but I thought it was a great concept.
and the time rewinds to the end of (me) i wish we'd never met that man today
and the time rewinds to the end of (me) i wish we'd never met that man today
This is what I hear, but it would only make sense if it was fastforward, but nonetheless - I like the concept so I'll push onward.
This is what I hear, but it would only make sense if it was fastforward, but nonetheless - I like the concept so I'll push onward.
He rewinds to the end of me... which originally is the idea of him...
He rewinds to the end of me... which originally is the idea of him and his girl lasting forever, which is now just realised and concreted today, to be him by himself, either alone or not with his love... He wishes he'd never met the new idea of his future self that is without her today.
I thought it was a good thought - hurtful but good. I wish it were, but when I listen to it again, it defiantly says "may", not "me". Wishful thinking I guess.
Wow i love that theory! I can totally hear it too but its just the scottish accent ha ha. It kills me that there new album does not live up to this one. Without the break up he really has nothing to say. Swim until you cant see land follows on exactly where floating in the forth leaves off. After floating down the river he is now in the sea and she is still trying to hurt him by "throwing stones at my back" in other words hurling insults. Thats really the best song on the album.
Wow i love that theory! I can totally hear it too but its just the scottish accent ha ha. It kills me that there new album does not live up to this one. Without the break up he really has nothing to say. Swim until you cant see land follows on exactly where floating in the forth leaves off. After floating down the river he is now in the sea and she is still trying to hurt him by "throwing stones at my back" in other words hurling insults. Thats really the best song on the album.
This song to me is about the subject having had a broken relationship, and walking backwards to where he came from, so he can start again with the person the relationship was broken from. He believes he has no other option as this is who he loves and where his heart lays. He wants a second chance, and to show this person that he is worth the time, with love prevailing over him.
this is my new favorite song by them.
yeah chickenflicker. AWESOME!