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 early '99, I beat the Ocarina Of Time,
I'm quite the legend in this town.
My friends get wicked shit
from all the foul-mouthed fools you roll with.
Just push your luck,
there will be blood,
most likely our own carnage.
We all just wanna do our thing,
without the misery you bring.
Go fuck yourselves, leave us alone.
You all need to go away,
you motherfuckers.
You all need to leave me and my homeboys alone.
You all need to go away,
you motherfuckers.
You all need to leave me and my sensitive homeboys alone.
I can't say that character would be one of your strongest assets,
not that we're perfect, merely extra perfect.
So don't think you know a thing
about a thing you know nothing about,
go fuck yourselves, leave us alone.
You all need to go away,
you motherfuckers.
You all need to leave me and my homeboys alone.
You all need to go away,
you motherfuckers.
You all need to leave me and my sensitive homeboys alone.
When the fever hits the fan
and you spout out your commands;
remember that we all feel the weather,
we all feel the weathering hours of discontent.
Though we may fear the Litmus Test,
age-old harassments fuel this quest
for a better way to all stick together.
Way to all stick together, you goddamn hypocrites.
You all need to go away,
you motherfuckers.
You all need to leave me and my homeboys alone.
You all need to go away,
you motherfuckers.
You all need to leave me and my sensitive homeboys alone.
Word!
I'm quite the legend in this town.
My friends get wicked shit
from all the foul-mouthed fools you roll with.
Just push your luck,
there will be blood,
most likely our own carnage.
We all just wanna do our thing,
without the misery you bring.
Go fuck yourselves, leave us alone.
You all need to go away,
you motherfuckers.
You all need to leave me and my homeboys alone.
You all need to go away,
you motherfuckers.
You all need to leave me and my sensitive homeboys alone.
I can't say that character would be one of your strongest assets,
not that we're perfect, merely extra perfect.
So don't think you know a thing
about a thing you know nothing about,
go fuck yourselves, leave us alone.
You all need to go away,
you motherfuckers.
You all need to leave me and my homeboys alone.
You all need to go away,
you motherfuckers.
You all need to leave me and my sensitive homeboys alone.
When the fever hits the fan
and you spout out your commands;
remember that we all feel the weather,
we all feel the weathering hours of discontent.
Though we may fear the Litmus Test,
age-old harassments fuel this quest
for a better way to all stick together.
Way to all stick together, you goddamn hypocrites.
You all need to go away,
you motherfuckers.
You all need to leave me and my homeboys alone.
You all need to go away,
you motherfuckers.
You all need to leave me and my sensitive homeboys alone.
Word!
Lyrics submitted by SeeingRed
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This song is grand, its simply put a song about nerds sticking together to keep from being picked on, Ocarina Of Time is a Zelda game and as the song goes to talk about, its about telling someone to step off.
Ha yes I love the Zelda reference. Unfortunately this song is something I can relate to from my school years, despite having since grown apart from the 'geeks' into someone considered quite different from that cliché.<br /> <br /> Brilliant song, probably my favourite chorus off the album.
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OoT reference for the win! I think I probably beat it for the first time in 1999 too :)
Best opening line. I like how he uses beating Ocarina of Time as evidence that he's the shit. <br /> <br /> I didn't beat it till like late 2000.
One of my favorites on My Dinosaur Life. Great to sing along to.
I got most of the lyrics, but if anyone has the bits I'm missing (because they were a little hard to interpret), let me know and I'll fix it. (:
I can't say that character would be one of your strongest assets, not that we're perfect merely, extra perfect
that's what i got from it.
that we may fear the litmus test
"not that we're perfect ?"
I'm pretty sure it's:
"not that we're perfect, merely extra perfect"
Also, "we all feel the weather in the hours of disconnect."
should be:
"that we all feel the weathering hours of disconnect."
And..."That we may feel the ?"
should be:
"That we may fear the litmus test"
But I don't know what the line after it is because he kind of screams it =D
Awesome, thanks for your help. Hopefully, someone will figure out what that line is.
"Say do harassments fill this quest?" That's the best I could get out of that ? part.
from the lyric book:
When the fever hits the fan, and you spout out your commands, Remember that we all feel the weather; That we all feel the weathering hours of discontent. Though we may fear the litmus test, age-old harassments fuel this quest for a better way to all stick together. Way to all stick together, you god damn hypocrites.
Nice one dude
There's a lyric book? Shit, I bought the deluxe iTunes version with the assumption the "digital booklet" would be a dead ringer for what came with the physical release. Guess not. I'm kinda bummed now. (As bummed as anyone who just bought a fucking kick-ass album could be, anyway.)
I bought the physical cd and there are no lyrics in the booklet either.
haha, I pre-ordered the CD/poster/lyric book bundle from Smartpunk...<br /> it was the same price ($10) as just getting the CD from the "official" pre-order so I jumped on it :D
Thanks much, I'll fix it.
Just buy the effing cd, Dack. You get much more from a cd than just a bunch of files from iTunes!!!!! :-)
How does everyone pronounce this song when referencing to it? I have to refer to the lyrics whenever talking about it, because I'm not sure what to call the title besides "the one with all the punctuation in it that has 'motherfuckers' in it a lot."
it's called mother effer or cubert (im not sure i'm spelling that correctly)<br /> <br /> watch this<br /> youtube.com/watch<br /> <br /> they talk about this song<br /> and others as well =)<br /> <br /> they're so silly
There are several places where the name is either @-@ or Atat, so you can call it that.
It sounds like "I caught the legend in this town", which could be another video game reference (pokemon). And There will be blood is a movie, so it could be talking about a bunch of nerds who get picked on.
actually they sing "I'm quite the legend in this town." not i caught the legend in this town. wouldent surprice me if both the two first lines are refrences to legend of zelda Ocarina Of Time