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"
It turns out to be a great thing for me
I don't worry (and) I don't think (because)
It's not my job to worry or to think
Not me
I'm more like everyday I'm here, I'm grateful
And that's the gist of it
Now you may call that a bogus, bullshit
New-age point of view
But check out my tattoo says wall-to-wall fun
Does everyone know everyone
Mr. Wall-to-wall Fun
We got the well, well, well
And cool Papa Bell
The fastest man on Earth did dwell
As cool Papa Bell
Motherfucker
Ugly word
Ubiquitous and often heard as a substitute for someone's Christian name
And I think yeah, the word is ugly, all the same
Ugly got a chase to make
It's not like every rodent gets a birthday cake
No, it's you're a chipmunk, how cute is that?
But you, you motherfucker, are a filthy rat
And well, well, well
Is it true, Papa Bell?
That the beauties go to heaven and the ugly go to hell
Cool Papa Bell
(Let the tubas cry)
Have you all heard the news?
Heaven finally found
Okay, it's six trillion light years away
But we're all gonna get there someday
Yes, they're all gonna get there one day
Ah, we're all gonna get, we're all gonna get, we
But, but not you
You stay and explain the suffering and the pain you caused
The thrill you feel when evil dreams come true
Check out my tattoo
It says wall-to-wall fun
Does everyone know everyone
Mr. Wall-to-wall Fun
We got the well, well, well
And Cool Papa Bell
The fastest man on Earth did dwell as Cool Papa Bell
And you're never gonna stop
Never gonna stop, never gonna stop
Never gonna stop, you never gonna stop
Never gonna stop, never gonna stop
You know, you know you
Are never gonna stop, never gonna stop, ci-kow-bow-chika
I don't worry (and) I don't think (because)
It's not my job to worry or to think
Not me
I'm more like everyday I'm here, I'm grateful
And that's the gist of it
Now you may call that a bogus, bullshit
New-age point of view
But check out my tattoo says wall-to-wall fun
Does everyone know everyone
Mr. Wall-to-wall Fun
We got the well, well, well
And cool Papa Bell
The fastest man on Earth did dwell
As cool Papa Bell
Motherfucker
Ugly word
Ubiquitous and often heard as a substitute for someone's Christian name
And I think yeah, the word is ugly, all the same
Ugly got a chase to make
It's not like every rodent gets a birthday cake
No, it's you're a chipmunk, how cute is that?
But you, you motherfucker, are a filthy rat
And well, well, well
Is it true, Papa Bell?
That the beauties go to heaven and the ugly go to hell
Cool Papa Bell
(Let the tubas cry)
Have you all heard the news?
Heaven finally found
Okay, it's six trillion light years away
But we're all gonna get there someday
Yes, they're all gonna get there one day
Ah, we're all gonna get, we're all gonna get, we
But, but not you
You stay and explain the suffering and the pain you caused
The thrill you feel when evil dreams come true
Check out my tattoo
It says wall-to-wall fun
Does everyone know everyone
Mr. Wall-to-wall Fun
We got the well, well, well
And Cool Papa Bell
The fastest man on Earth did dwell as Cool Papa Bell
And you're never gonna stop
Never gonna stop, never gonna stop
Never gonna stop, you never gonna stop
Never gonna stop, never gonna stop
You know, you know you
Are never gonna stop, never gonna stop, ci-kow-bow-chika
Lyrics submitted by mike114578
Cool Papa Bell Lyrics as written by Paul Simon
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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