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"
Out on the back porch
You say tonight we bring our pocket
Our pocket knives
You want to fight me
You want to fight
Forgotten sense of me
Saya saya
And in the backyard
Into the night
We walk through fire
By candlelight
They want to fight me
They want to fight
Forgotten sense of me
Saya saya
And through the fire
We see the light
That no one's hiding
To save our lives
You want to love me
You've got to try
Forgotten sense of me
Saya saya
Say you're me now
Set your arms down
You say tonight we bring our pocket
Our pocket knives
You want to fight me
You want to fight
Forgotten sense of me
Saya saya
And in the backyard
Into the night
We walk through fire
By candlelight
They want to fight me
They want to fight
Forgotten sense of me
Saya saya
And through the fire
We see the light
That no one's hiding
To save our lives
You want to love me
You've got to try
Forgotten sense of me
Saya saya
Say you're me now
Set your arms down
Lyrics submitted by kittenchowmein
Set Your Arms Down Lyrics as written by Jennifer Lee Lindberg Emily Camille Kokal
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I think it's probably a form of resistance to the future, but it might have been supposed to be ironic because if one transposes the idea behind the pocket knives and the idea of the arms, it implies distrust.
But I have a feeling that weeddemon was right in some way because neither the singer nor the addressed wants weapons at reach, whatever their clash, it is to be done without the use of any externals. The whole idea of walking through fire is something of a trial and that's an entirely individual concept, one does that to oneself for a greater purpose that transcends ordinary human notions.
I guess this requires more thinking but one might have to think of the singer as either a lover or a mentor whose desire to be with or to teach is greater than any human ego.
you are amazing.
@genericme great interpretation. A+
no clue what this one's about, but i dig it immensely.
Is this song about the Buffy musical? Spike & Buffy are in love, in the musical there's an ensemble song called "Walk through the fire" and they're all prepared for a "Fight". Buffy is in a bad place that season, being raised back from the dead and forgetting her old carefree self..."forgotten sense of me" Then, in the next number, Spike saves Buffy and "sets her arms down."
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Considering that they intended this to be a stoner album, it's not much of a stretch that they could have been sitting on the couch baked out of their minds watching this musical and thought "Hey...this would be pretty rad to write a song about, man"
She MUST be saying "Selassie" at least some of the time.
I never really got a literal meaning from the lyrics of this song, but the song to me has a certain vibe of anticipation. Setting the scene. Something big is about to happen and you're are in the thick of it. It builds and builds and slowly draws you in.
I just found it really sets the mood for the album, its an important track, and probably one of my favourites, but as to the actual meaning of the lyrics themselves, I have no idea.
Out on the back porch you say tonight We bring our pocket our pocket knives- i think its about a couple and the boyfriend/husband wants to argue. the pocket knives are the hurtful words that cut them in a sense.
you want to fight me you want to fight forgotten sense of me- she gives in saya, saya
and in the backyard into the night we walk through fire my love is your flashlight- maybe bring up past issues the fire being the issues and the love is his flashlight to get passed it and move on they want to fight me they want to fight forgotten sense of me- i don't know, man saya, saya
walk through the fire walk 'till it gets light there is no hiding to save your life- all the issues are exposed until they are issues no more. and not hiding any secrets so you can get passed it.
you've got to try
say you're me now set your arms down- maybe let your gaurd down and just be set free and move on and set your arms down literally