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"
This is a song for the geeks of the world.
Quincy, can you please pass me that Norton Utilities manual?
Though we once got dissed for our thick frames,
Now we get more play than Rick James
2005, baby. Yo, the nerd is back.
We're smart, paid, sexy and that's a fact.
Fabio who? That's right, shut up.
Can't defrag a Mac while he does push-ups
Still don't believe me? Well, I hope this helps...
Who's got more gold? Bill Gates or Michael Phelps?
Johnny Quarterback's glory days would never last
He got his girl pregnant and now he's pumping gas.
While the kid he once dissed hung out in his garage
Now he runs Macintosh and his name's Steve Jobs
Not to simplify matters, but think about this:
A nerd will use his mind, bullies use their fists
Stop hating on us just because smart
Sing along to my song, that's a very good start.
Get your geek on, baby
For what it's worth
The first shall be last
And the last shall be first
Proud to be a brain
Brain a, reveresed
'Cause the geeks shall inherit the earth
Get your geek on, baby
For what it's worth
The first shall be last
And the last shall be first
Check, check the base cosine inverse
'Cause the geeks shall inherit the earth
"I never knew the brain could be so sexy..."
"Just wait until I show you my Star Wars sheets
we can ride the Millennium Falcon of Love."
"Ooh, MC Lars..."
Check it out, here's a story of a kid from California,
Fifth grade disgraced, I thought I might warn ya
Binator, retainer, dissed by sixth graders
Kids yelled "nerd!" dark like darth vader
Weird Al fan, eleven forever
Not the best catcher, but computer clever
Eighth grade, online, internet addicts
IRC, motorola habit
HTML, seventh grade, website
Jerky Boys fan page, coding all night.
Gameboy Advance, Mario Kart
Wesley Willis and Outsider art.
Writing music plugged in with that Digi Mini patch
Tweaked out turn tables, learning how to scratch
Couldn't be nerdier if he tried
'Til he wrote a funky song, all about geek pride
Get your geek on, baby
For what it's worth
The first shall be last
And the last shall be first
Proud to be a brain
Brain a, reveresed
'Cause the geeks shall inherit the earth
Get your geek on, baby
For what it's worth
The first shall be last
And the last shall be first
Check, check the base cosine inverse
'Cause the geeks shall inherit the earth
If you're geeked out, freak out, speak out
Proud to be a brain? Tell me what's it all about.
If you're geeked out, freak out, speak out
Proud to be me? Tell me what's it all about.
Don't be afraid of your intelligence.
Because that's awesome!
Okay?
We dont' need anyone tellng us what's cool
And when they ask the eternal question why,
Tell them Lars sent ya.
Get your geek on, baby
For what it's worth
The first shall be last
And the last shall be first
Proud to be a brain
Brain a, reveresed
'Cause the geeks shall inherit the earth
Get your geek on, baby
For what it's worth
The first shall be last
And the last shall be first
Check, check the base cosine inverse
'Cause the geeks shall inherit the earth
Quincy, can you please pass me that Norton Utilities manual?
Though we once got dissed for our thick frames,
Now we get more play than Rick James
2005, baby. Yo, the nerd is back.
We're smart, paid, sexy and that's a fact.
Fabio who? That's right, shut up.
Can't defrag a Mac while he does push-ups
Still don't believe me? Well, I hope this helps...
Who's got more gold? Bill Gates or Michael Phelps?
Johnny Quarterback's glory days would never last
He got his girl pregnant and now he's pumping gas.
While the kid he once dissed hung out in his garage
Now he runs Macintosh and his name's Steve Jobs
Not to simplify matters, but think about this:
A nerd will use his mind, bullies use their fists
Stop hating on us just because smart
Sing along to my song, that's a very good start.
Get your geek on, baby
For what it's worth
The first shall be last
And the last shall be first
Proud to be a brain
Brain a, reveresed
'Cause the geeks shall inherit the earth
Get your geek on, baby
For what it's worth
The first shall be last
And the last shall be first
Check, check the base cosine inverse
'Cause the geeks shall inherit the earth
"I never knew the brain could be so sexy..."
"Just wait until I show you my Star Wars sheets
we can ride the Millennium Falcon of Love."
"Ooh, MC Lars..."
Check it out, here's a story of a kid from California,
Fifth grade disgraced, I thought I might warn ya
Binator, retainer, dissed by sixth graders
Kids yelled "nerd!" dark like darth vader
Weird Al fan, eleven forever
Not the best catcher, but computer clever
Eighth grade, online, internet addicts
IRC, motorola habit
HTML, seventh grade, website
Jerky Boys fan page, coding all night.
Gameboy Advance, Mario Kart
Wesley Willis and Outsider art.
Writing music plugged in with that Digi Mini patch
Tweaked out turn tables, learning how to scratch
Couldn't be nerdier if he tried
'Til he wrote a funky song, all about geek pride
Get your geek on, baby
For what it's worth
The first shall be last
And the last shall be first
Proud to be a brain
Brain a, reveresed
'Cause the geeks shall inherit the earth
Get your geek on, baby
For what it's worth
The first shall be last
And the last shall be first
Check, check the base cosine inverse
'Cause the geeks shall inherit the earth
If you're geeked out, freak out, speak out
Proud to be a brain? Tell me what's it all about.
If you're geeked out, freak out, speak out
Proud to be me? Tell me what's it all about.
Don't be afraid of your intelligence.
Because that's awesome!
Okay?
We dont' need anyone tellng us what's cool
And when they ask the eternal question why,
Tell them Lars sent ya.
Get your geek on, baby
For what it's worth
The first shall be last
And the last shall be first
Proud to be a brain
Brain a, reveresed
'Cause the geeks shall inherit the earth
Get your geek on, baby
For what it's worth
The first shall be last
And the last shall be first
Check, check the base cosine inverse
'Cause the geeks shall inherit the earth
Lyrics submitted by nikki04
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