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'm sorry, Mama, but I've been drinking again
Me and the old man got us a head start on the weekend
And rest assured, tonight I'm going to be in Kevin's basement with all my friends
Provided we can get, get our lazy asses down to Bottle King by ten
And the walk home is going to be a real shit show
I'll be picking up half-smoked cigarette butts all up and down Rock Road
And then to throw up in the warm glow of the traffic light
But I'm gonna put the devil inside to sleep if it takes all night
So let's get fucked up, and let's pretend we're all okay
And if you've got something that you can't live with
Save it for another day, all right?
Save it for another day
I'm sorry, Mama, but expect a call from the neighbors tonight
All of my asshole buddies are coming over and they're feeling a little too all right
I'm sick and tired of everyone in this town being so goddamn uptight
But don't you worry, I'll do all the talking when they turn on the flashing lights
When I'm an old man, I can be the quiet type
And I can go without a moment of fun for the rest of my life
I can read a good book, and I can be in bed by ten
And I can get up early, go to work and come home, and start it all over again
But while we're young, boys, everybody raise your glasses high
Singing, "Here's to the good times, here's to the home team
Kiss the good times goodbye, oh yeah
Kiss the good times goodbye"
I need a timeout, I need an escape from reality
Or else I need eternal darkness and death, I need an exit strategy
Down in North Carolina, I could have been a productive member of society
But these New Jersey cigarettes and all they require have made a fucking junkie out of me
So give me a Guinness, give me a Keystone Light
Give me a kegger on a Friday night
Give me anything but another year in exile
I need a whiskey, I need a whiskey, I need a whiskey right now
I need a whiskey, I need a whiskey
God knows how many times I've said this before
But I really don't feel like doing this anymore
So hey, Andy, let's turn into dirty old men
Close down the bar every night at the Glen Rock Inn
Talk about our grandkids as we stroke our grey bears
Funny we're still doing carbombs after all of these years
And I know there are bicycles waiting to ride
But I could swear I heard voices from the other side, saying
"Wait until you see the whites of their eyes"
And now that I'm older, I look back and say
"What the fuck was it for anyway?"
For those dreams are lying in the still of the grave
What the fuck were they for anyway?
So let it be on a stretcher if I get carried away
What the fuck was it for anyway?
What the fuck was it for anyway?
Me and the old man got us a head start on the weekend
And rest assured, tonight I'm going to be in Kevin's basement with all my friends
Provided we can get, get our lazy asses down to Bottle King by ten
And the walk home is going to be a real shit show
I'll be picking up half-smoked cigarette butts all up and down Rock Road
And then to throw up in the warm glow of the traffic light
But I'm gonna put the devil inside to sleep if it takes all night
So let's get fucked up, and let's pretend we're all okay
And if you've got something that you can't live with
Save it for another day, all right?
Save it for another day
I'm sorry, Mama, but expect a call from the neighbors tonight
All of my asshole buddies are coming over and they're feeling a little too all right
I'm sick and tired of everyone in this town being so goddamn uptight
But don't you worry, I'll do all the talking when they turn on the flashing lights
When I'm an old man, I can be the quiet type
And I can go without a moment of fun for the rest of my life
I can read a good book, and I can be in bed by ten
And I can get up early, go to work and come home, and start it all over again
But while we're young, boys, everybody raise your glasses high
Singing, "Here's to the good times, here's to the home team
Kiss the good times goodbye, oh yeah
Kiss the good times goodbye"
I need a timeout, I need an escape from reality
Or else I need eternal darkness and death, I need an exit strategy
Down in North Carolina, I could have been a productive member of society
But these New Jersey cigarettes and all they require have made a fucking junkie out of me
So give me a Guinness, give me a Keystone Light
Give me a kegger on a Friday night
Give me anything but another year in exile
I need a whiskey, I need a whiskey, I need a whiskey right now
I need a whiskey, I need a whiskey
God knows how many times I've said this before
But I really don't feel like doing this anymore
So hey, Andy, let's turn into dirty old men
Close down the bar every night at the Glen Rock Inn
Talk about our grandkids as we stroke our grey bears
Funny we're still doing carbombs after all of these years
And I know there are bicycles waiting to ride
But I could swear I heard voices from the other side, saying
"Wait until you see the whites of their eyes"
And now that I'm older, I look back and say
"What the fuck was it for anyway?"
For those dreams are lying in the still of the grave
What the fuck were they for anyway?
So let it be on a stretcher if I get carried away
What the fuck was it for anyway?
What the fuck was it for anyway?
Lyrics submitted by stealthissound
Theme from "Cheers" Lyrics as written by Patrick Stickles
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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