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"
You don't notice my life
You want to shut me up
You despise my blood
And you don't want me here
You think i waste your air
That I am nothing but dirt
You think you own my life
And you don't want me here
(Fuck you)
I'm the one who dares
(And who care)
The one who fights
(I matter)
The god and the prayer
(I'm awake)
Love and hate
The fear in your veins
The one you dare
Come on
I'm here
I am here
I am here
Here
I matter
You want to shut me up
You despise my blood
And you don't want me here
You think i waste your air
That I am nothing but dirt
You think you own my life
And you don't want me here
(Fuck you)
I'm the one who dares
(And who care)
The one who fights
(I matter)
The god and the prayer
(I'm awake)
Love and hate
The fear in your veins
The one you dare
Come on
I'm here
I am here
I am here
Here
I matter
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some of these lyrics may be wrong, if someone wants to fill in the wrong bits
i think 'Round up all my friends' might be 'wound up on my back' not too sure though. def the best song on havilah.
just found the right lyrics on the drones website, i dunno how to change these though.
the drones certainly know how to tell a good story
This is a complicated song. To me. A philosphy. John Frum. Wiki that for starters, saves me looking like a prong for plagiarising all his detail.
A great line for a finisher.
Then they can really look forward to those missionaries, considering they can have em strung up in the camp freezer for months of sinewy nutrition.
White man brings white goods white plague white ideals, who is the black man to say no?
Gareth Liddiard explained what this song was about at a solo acoustic set at the Globe in Brisbane.
It is about the country of Papau New Guinea and how they were visited by an American man right after World War 2. Everyone in the country were basically from the stone age and this american bloke came over with all these new technologies and white goods such as fridges. They thought he was some sort of God. Seeing as though this country had only seen stone axes.
"You would be pretty damn impressed with a fucking brand new Kalvinator" he said.
It's a sad story