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"
Head on the wall
Head on the wall
And my piss hardly makes the stall
And this time it's not an act
This time I swear it's fact
Now I ramble on
About that girl who's gone
And I tried teaching her guitar
Now she's standing at the bar
She tells me her favorite song
And I say: "Yeah, that's a good one"
She says it follows her around
No shit, it's by the Beatles
I'm so lost
And I live just around the corner
Well here's a thought
Get Frank McCourt to write the forward
[Repeat x4]
Well I'm John Lennon
It's sixty seven
Head on the wall
And my piss hardly makes the stall
And this time it's not an act
This time I swear it's fact
Now I ramble on
About that girl who's gone
And I tried teaching her guitar
Now she's standing at the bar
She tells me her favorite song
And I say: "Yeah, that's a good one"
She says it follows her around
No shit, it's by the Beatles
I'm so lost
And I live just around the corner
Well here's a thought
Get Frank McCourt to write the forward
[Repeat x4]
Well I'm John Lennon
It's sixty seven
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It's not "six to seven", it's '67. It seems like the song is about John Lennon from the Beatles, unless maybe they're making some type of analogy. Anyway, the song sounds like it's about John Lennon on drugs, and since his brain is all messed up from them, he can't use the bathroom properly or find his house even though it's right around the corner.
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Corrections: Head on the wall... And my piss hardly makes the stall, And this time it's not an act. This time I swear it's fact.
Now I ramble on, About that girl who's gone; And I tried teaching her guitar, Now she's standing at the bar.
She tells me her favourite song, And I say, "Yeah, that's a good one..." She says it follows her around. No shit, it's by the Beatles.
I'm so lost, And I live just around the corner. Well, here's a thought, Get Frank McCourt to write the foreword.
And I'm John Lennon, in '67. I'm John Lennon, in '67. I'm John Lennon, in '67. I'm John Lennon, in '67.
Adam's in love again. And the good Rev wants to jam instead. Morgan's hearing none of it. She says we're doing it again.
The neighbourhood's up in arms. They're trying to shut down all the bars When everyone's a private eye - They're hiding in the bushes every night.
The cats square off in the street, The dogs go through the garbage. You wanna stay for the night tonight? Well I know all about platonic, honey.
I'm so lost, And I live just around the corner. Well, here's a thought, Get Frank McCourt to write the foreword.
And I'm John Lennon, in '67. I'm John Lennon, in '67. I'm John Lennon, in '67. I'm John Lennon, in '67.
Head on the wall... And my piss hardly makes the stall, And this time it's not an act.
I'm so lost, And I live just around the corner. Well, here's a thought, Get Frank McCourt to write the foreword.
And I'm John Lennon, in '67. I'm John Lennon, in '67. I'm John Lennon, in '67. I'm John Lennon, in '67.
What is this song exactly about? Is it really about John Lennon or something else?