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"
In the gray of yesterday
A breeze blew over exposing
A memory so small
What is it here for
Your virility, makes me forget empathy
Dig your hole
That's what we're here for
To make you feel important
Cause you knew we were aborted
It's the same things that we're saying all the time
And they have everything
They kept their ribs, I'm sure of it
It's what they're all about
But getting inside counts
Mass virility, has made me forget empathy
Dig your hole
It's what we're here for
To make you feel important
Cause you knew we were aborted
It's the same things that we're saying all the time
(they may be views , but they'll never be mine)
The mid-shelf masturbation
Leaves a smear on half the nation
Its the same things that they're saying all the time
Ah
Oh your virility, has made me forget empathy
Dig your hole
Its what they're here for
To make you feel important
Cause you knew we were aborted
Its the same things that we're saying all the time
The mid-shelf masturbation
Leaves a smear on half the nation
It's the same things that they're saying all the time
A breeze blew over exposing
A memory so small
What is it here for
Your virility, makes me forget empathy
Dig your hole
That's what we're here for
To make you feel important
Cause you knew we were aborted
It's the same things that we're saying all the time
And they have everything
They kept their ribs, I'm sure of it
It's what they're all about
But getting inside counts
Mass virility, has made me forget empathy
Dig your hole
It's what we're here for
To make you feel important
Cause you knew we were aborted
It's the same things that we're saying all the time
(they may be views , but they'll never be mine)
The mid-shelf masturbation
Leaves a smear on half the nation
Its the same things that they're saying all the time
Ah
Oh your virility, has made me forget empathy
Dig your hole
Its what they're here for
To make you feel important
Cause you knew we were aborted
Its the same things that we're saying all the time
The mid-shelf masturbation
Leaves a smear on half the nation
It's the same things that they're saying all the time
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It's about men, blokes, and how the singer is fed up of them. Kinda similar to 'men's needs' on the last album.
"Your virility, makes me forget empathy"
He hates guys acting all macho
"cause you knew we were aborted"
Reminds of a comment by Valerie Solanas (she REALLY hated men) about how, because female is the default state of the foetus, that men are 'walking abortions'
"The mid-shelf masturbation Leaves a smear on half the nation"
He hates the lads mags and how immature they are.
"And they have everything They kept their ribs, I'm sure of it It's what they're all about But getting inside counts"
They (women) have everything, including the ribs that are supposed to be missing according to Christian folklore. 'Getting inside counts', well I think we all know what that means...
I'm literally positive that's what he's singing about. Unless anyone has any other takes on it?
Similarly to 'Of Walking Abortion' by the Manic Street Preachers this is basically an attack on malekind. The "We were aborted" lyric reffering to them as males being aborted, as Valerie Solanas states in her SCUM Manifesto (womynkind.org/scum.htm) which was also stolen by the Manics.
We Were Aborted also has other links to SCUM, such as dealing with men being emotionally incapable "Mass virility, has made me forget empathy". Magpie11's spot on the Ladmag attack further backing this up.
Great song, great subject matter
first
I think it's about lads mags such as Nuts and Loaded paticularly the lines:-
"The mid-shelf masturbation Leaves a smear on half the nation Its the same things that they're saying all the time"
Great to have The Cribs back.
Great Song.
Good spot magpie11, i also thinks it's about the kind of people who read those mags.
In the grey of yesterday A breeze blew over exposing A memory so small What is it here for?
That your virility Makes me forget empathy And dig your hole That's what we're here for
To make you feel important Cos you knew we were aborted It's the same things that we're saying all this time
And they have everything They'd have kept their ribs, I'm sure of it It's what they're all about But getting inside counts
And mass virility Has made me forget empathy And dig your hole It's what we're here for
To make you feel important Cos you knew we were aborted It's the same things that we're saying all this time (they may be views , but they'll never be mine)
While mid-shelf masturbation Leaves a smear on half the nation Its the same things that they're saying all the time
aaaaaahh
Oh your virility Has made me forget empathy So I dig your hole That's what what they're here for
To make you feel important Cos you knew we were aborted It's the same things that we're saying all the time
And mid-shelf masturbation Leaves a smear on half the nation It's the same things that they're saying all the time
Does anyone else think the song is actually about abortion? That is the first thing i though of i don't know why. " A breeze blew over exposing A memory so small What is it here for" they had an abortion because they thought it was really small and that it won't matter
"The mid-shelf masturbation Leaves a smear on half the nation" masturbation reduced the amount of kids made because people aren't having sex as much
and it also says "(they may be views , but they'll never be mine)" kind of send explanatory. I'm probably wrong but whatever that's what i think of