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"
[Scooter:]
When school lets out I race right home
I'm faster than the bus, I just can't wait to see my friend
Who's come to live with us
He's quite unique this friend of mine
Like none you've ever seen
He's full of fancy circuitry
Instead of fingers he has keys
And where a normal face should be he's got a special screen
Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips
They've got the answers at their fingertips
Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips
They've got the answers at their fingertips
[Scooter:]
Mr. Chips is quite a whiz, he works with lightening speed
He gives me information and the answers that I need
He's got a super memory, but I'm what makes him tick
He's programmed so that he reacts when I feed him data
Those are facts, he sorts them out and answers back
You ought to see how quick!
[Mr. Chips:]
Anything you can do with paper and pencil I can do faster
Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips
They've got the answers at their fingertips
Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips
They've got the answers at their fingertips
[Scooter:]
Ok Mr. Chips, let's show
These kids how much we know
I type my questions on his keys to set my pal in motion
Name the states that border on the great Pacific Ocean
He's sure to have the answers if the program all was right
He searches all his data through
And feeds back names of four or two
I knew I could depend on you
Hey Chips, you're out of sight
[Mr. Chips:]
It was nothing
[Scooter:]
There's just no end to what we do with Mr. Chips around
He helps me with my homework so I really get it down
He prints the checks that pay the bills
He stores up dates and names
He files facts, makes shopping lists
He tells us birthdays not to miss
And then on top of all this he's great at playing games
[Mr. Chips:]
I'm free, I win
Sorry
Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips
They've got the answers at their fingertips
Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips
They've got the answers at their fingertips
When school lets out I race right home
I'm faster than the bus, I just can't wait to see my friend
Who's come to live with us
He's quite unique this friend of mine
Like none you've ever seen
He's full of fancy circuitry
Instead of fingers he has keys
And where a normal face should be he's got a special screen
Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips
They've got the answers at their fingertips
Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips
They've got the answers at their fingertips
[Scooter:]
Mr. Chips is quite a whiz, he works with lightening speed
He gives me information and the answers that I need
He's got a super memory, but I'm what makes him tick
He's programmed so that he reacts when I feed him data
Those are facts, he sorts them out and answers back
You ought to see how quick!
[Mr. Chips:]
Anything you can do with paper and pencil I can do faster
Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips
They've got the answers at their fingertips
Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips
They've got the answers at their fingertips
[Scooter:]
Ok Mr. Chips, let's show
These kids how much we know
I type my questions on his keys to set my pal in motion
Name the states that border on the great Pacific Ocean
He's sure to have the answers if the program all was right
He searches all his data through
And feeds back names of four or two
I knew I could depend on you
Hey Chips, you're out of sight
[Mr. Chips:]
It was nothing
[Scooter:]
There's just no end to what we do with Mr. Chips around
He helps me with my homework so I really get it down
He prints the checks that pay the bills
He stores up dates and names
He files facts, makes shopping lists
He tells us birthdays not to miss
And then on top of all this he's great at playing games
[Mr. Chips:]
I'm free, I win
Sorry
Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips
They've got the answers at their fingertips
Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips
They've got the answers at their fingertips
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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yesiree Bob this one is an oldie but a goody (lol)
I've never seen it and I want to ,but the film has been lost for years now I'm only ten and I've seen all the videos ,but that one Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips introduction. I would just at least like to hear it. I read that it was lost and never to be found again at least for now hopefully.I wish somebody could find it. :D