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"
Four more rotations and no one will hurt
These are the things I dream of
I've been thinking through the drinking
Though my confidence is shrinking
That I might be fine
The north would be so proud of you
Ooh, what would you do?
Ooh, when stars fall from the sky
And you're only two seconds from crying?
Paraffin, Anadin, sick as disguise
So we take our snappy patterns
And use them as knives
Now, there's nothing left for me to try
My own arrogance and humble pie
But I?ll be alright
The north would be so proud of you
So, I'll see you tomorrow, shall we call it one
Trying to get the sparks to light
Seeing as they've gone
You don't know how to value that
But I know how to value that
I think we'll be fine
The north would be so proud of you
Ooh, what would you do
Ooh, when stars fall from the sky
And you're only two seconds from crying?
These are the things I dream of
I've been thinking through the drinking
Though my confidence is shrinking
That I might be fine
The north would be so proud of you
Ooh, what would you do?
Ooh, when stars fall from the sky
And you're only two seconds from crying?
Paraffin, Anadin, sick as disguise
So we take our snappy patterns
And use them as knives
Now, there's nothing left for me to try
My own arrogance and humble pie
But I?ll be alright
The north would be so proud of you
So, I'll see you tomorrow, shall we call it one
Trying to get the sparks to light
Seeing as they've gone
You don't know how to value that
But I know how to value that
I think we'll be fine
The north would be so proud of you
Ooh, what would you do
Ooh, when stars fall from the sky
And you're only two seconds from crying?
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The North Lyrics as written by Carl Barat Anthony Rossomando
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does anyone have any idea what this song is about? my idea is kinda vague but it's like about someone who is drunk or on drugs (anadin) and basically a bit out of it and he has just left some kind of relationship (try to get the sparks to light seen as they've gone and the references to being helpless and crying) but he is taking it in a more or less bittersweet way saying that "the north" would be so proud of you. i have no idea what the north is though :/
ja i also feel like its about drugs, especially the rotations part (someone is high and their head is spinning, something like that)<br /> but its got a lot of really weird words going on in it tho, like why parafin? (parafin is wax, like in candles) and the whole second verse seems very metaphorical.<br /> maybe this is actually just supposed to be about someone who's high... its kinda got that dreamy feel you know?
I thought it was more about the drugs being the only thing that keeps their relationship together. "Trying to get sparks to light / Seeing as they're gone"