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"
Captured Clandestine,
Crawled into the light,
Knew he was in for a shoe-in,
Just wasn't to be his night.
Dragged out of the frozen Rhine,
For the Motherland,
And the third reich,
Always good to be shoe in,
When it's not to be your night,
Your night.
Tred carefully,
So carefully,
On the drifting ice
Behind enemy lines,
In 1939,
For Germany,
He sacrificed his life,
Caught behind enemy lines,
In 1939.
Kids knee deep in rubble,
London urchins grey with dust,
Back of fout west in evacuation,
The farmers wives greeting pleasant lies,
Far from the doodblebugs.
Nana doll still remembers,
Leaving town in worn-out shoes,
Now she's back out west,
In sheltered accommodation,
Homes for the old,
Where pills aren't the only blues.
Tred carefully,
So carefully,
On the drifting ice
Staring blankly into the tv guide,
In 2009,
Oh how it hurts me,
I've only seen her twice
Since she went west for the second time
Since 1939.
Crawled into the light,
Knew he was in for a shoe-in,
Just wasn't to be his night.
Dragged out of the frozen Rhine,
For the Motherland,
And the third reich,
Always good to be shoe in,
When it's not to be your night,
Your night.
Tred carefully,
So carefully,
On the drifting ice
Behind enemy lines,
In 1939,
For Germany,
He sacrificed his life,
Caught behind enemy lines,
In 1939.
Kids knee deep in rubble,
London urchins grey with dust,
Back of fout west in evacuation,
The farmers wives greeting pleasant lies,
Far from the doodblebugs.
Nana doll still remembers,
Leaving town in worn-out shoes,
Now she's back out west,
In sheltered accommodation,
Homes for the old,
Where pills aren't the only blues.
Tred carefully,
So carefully,
On the drifting ice
Staring blankly into the tv guide,
In 2009,
Oh how it hurts me,
I've only seen her twice
Since she went west for the second time
Since 1939.
Lyrics submitted by applebuttaz1212
1939 Returning Lyrics as written by Mik Whitnall Peter Martin Doherty
Lyrics © Royalty Network, Bucks Music Group
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Dragged out of the frozen Rhine, For the Motherland, and the third reich, always good to be shoe in, when it's not to be your night, your night.
should this part be?
Dragged out of the frozen Rhine, For the Motherland, and the third reich, a toeings/towings as good as a shoeing, when it's not to be your night, your night.
The lyrics are flawed. They should be as follows:
Captured clandestine Crawled into the lights He knew he was in for a shoeing Just wasn't to be his night
Dragged out of the frozen Rhine For the Motherland and the Third Reich A toeing's as good as a shoeing When it's not to be your night
Tread carefully, so carefully Upon the drifting ice Caught behind enemy lines In 1939 For Germany he sacrificed his life Caught behind enemy lines There in 1939
Kids knee-deep in rubble London urchins grey with dust Packed off west in evacuations To farmers' wives Green and pleasant lives Far from the doodlebugs
Nanna Doll she still remembers Leaving town in worn-out shoes Now she's back out west in sheltered accommodations Homes for the old where pills aren't the only blues
Tread carefully, so carefully Upon the drifting ice Staring blank into the TV guide In 2009 How it's hurting me, I've only seen her twice Since she went west for the second time Since 1939
Tread carefully, so carefully Upon the drifting ice Staring blank into the TV guide In 2009 How it's hurting me, I've only seen her twice Since she went west for the second time Since 1939
kate??? this song confuses me so much
its about WWII
Staring blank into the tv guide in 2009 oh how it's hurting me i've only seen her twice since she went west for the 2nd time since 1939. only pete doherty can write songs like this.