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"
I have let you melt me down
Into a plastic rainbow
And I have left myself to hang
In a Halloween sky
I let you tattoo a frown
Onto a face of white snow
Now I see footprints of a man
Running through my eyes
Do I despise these perfect lies
I tell myself each night and day
Go kiss by blackened heart goodbye
I'm running out of things to play
Hey, see I need to forget
That I've become a plastic rainbow
And I'm melting in the sun
And I have fallen from the sky
In a million multi-coloured lies
I've had enough of your ideals, ideals yeah
I'm gonna break her like a Barbie Doll
Push her face down in the dirt
Blue Maybelline mascara
Is running down my favourite shirt
And whoever thought that messing with me
Was ever gonna hurt?
Your plastic swords, too many times
Her black suspenders and a mini-skirt
Do I despise these perfect lies
I tell myself each night and day
Go kiss by blackened heart goodbye
I'm running out of things to play
Hey, see I need to forget
That I've become a plastic rainbow
And I'm melting in the sun
And I have fallen from the sky
In a million multi-coloured lies
I've had enough of your ideals, ideals yeah
Yeah, I became a plastic rainbow
Yeah, I fell from the sky
In a million multi-coloured lies
Your commerce helped for a while
But now all I seem to do is...
Smile
Do I smile.
Into a plastic rainbow
And I have left myself to hang
In a Halloween sky
I let you tattoo a frown
Onto a face of white snow
Now I see footprints of a man
Running through my eyes
Do I despise these perfect lies
I tell myself each night and day
Go kiss by blackened heart goodbye
I'm running out of things to play
Hey, see I need to forget
That I've become a plastic rainbow
And I'm melting in the sun
And I have fallen from the sky
In a million multi-coloured lies
I've had enough of your ideals, ideals yeah
I'm gonna break her like a Barbie Doll
Push her face down in the dirt
Blue Maybelline mascara
Is running down my favourite shirt
And whoever thought that messing with me
Was ever gonna hurt?
Your plastic swords, too many times
Her black suspenders and a mini-skirt
Do I despise these perfect lies
I tell myself each night and day
Go kiss by blackened heart goodbye
I'm running out of things to play
Hey, see I need to forget
That I've become a plastic rainbow
And I'm melting in the sun
And I have fallen from the sky
In a million multi-coloured lies
I've had enough of your ideals, ideals yeah
Yeah, I became a plastic rainbow
Yeah, I fell from the sky
In a million multi-coloured lies
Your commerce helped for a while
But now all I seem to do is...
Smile
Do I smile.
Lyrics submitted by jo_taylor_joe, edited by Radioactiv
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To me these lyrics are a bit scattered and it's hard to find the core concept of this song.
I think what she's saying is that someone (maybe a boyfriend, an aquaintance, or possibly even her father) has turned her into a fake, cheerful girl even though she is quite negative on the inside. She's tired of being the positive one in everything, but now it's sunk in and she can't help it ("Now all I seem to do is smile"). That's all I can get from the song right now. I'll listen to it a few more times. I really like this song and all of Marina's early demos. ♥
To me these lyrics are a bit scattered and it's hard to find the core concept of this song.
I think what she's saying is that someone (maybe a boyfriend, an aquaintance, or possibly even her father) has turned her into a fake, cheerful girl even though she is quite negative on the inside. She's tired of being the positive one in everything, but now it's sunk in and she can't help it ("Now all I seem to do is smile"). That's all I can get from the song right now. I'll listen to it a few more times. I really like this song and all of Marina's early demos. ♥
To me these lyrics are a bit scattered and it's hard to find the core concept of this song.
I think what she's saying is that someone (maybe a boyfriend, an aquaintance, or possibly even her father) has turned her into a fake, cheerful girl even though she is quite negative on the inside. She's tired of being the positive one in everything, but now it's sunk in and she can't help it ("Now all I seem to do is smile"). That's all I can get from the song right now. I'll listen to it a few more times. I really like this song and all of Marina's early demos. ♥