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 wander down these streets all by myself
Think of my future now
I just don't know
I don't see to care
I stop to notice that
I'm by your home
I wonder if you're sitting all alone
Or is your boyfriend there
Because I feel so right
Let my imagination go
Until you're in my sight
And through my veins
Temptation flows
So I sit down here on the hard concrete
Think of my future now
I just don't know
I don't seem to care
So I sit across the street from your home
I wonder if you're sitting all alone
Or is your boyfriend there
Think of my future now
I just don't know
I don't see to care
I stop to notice that
I'm by your home
I wonder if you're sitting all alone
Or is your boyfriend there
Because I feel so right
Let my imagination go
Until you're in my sight
And through my veins
Temptation flows
So I sit down here on the hard concrete
Think of my future now
I just don't know
I don't seem to care
So I sit across the street from your home
I wonder if you're sitting all alone
Or is your boyfriend there
Lyrics submitted by onearmedscissor
Private Ale Lyrics as written by Frank E. Billie Joe Armstrong
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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the lyrics to this song are so simple but i love them. i think its about someone he likes but she has a boyfriend so he cant really do anything about it except use his imagination. im in the exact same position right now. all the older green day songs are so easy to relate to..
yup, i agree. basically ur right. all old green day songs are easier to relate to because back then they were more my age, im 16 now, so obviously the song '16' i will be able to relate to and so will older ppl.
Actually, Green Day, all of their songs, are relatable at any age. Take Insomniac, that whole album is about being somewhat pissed off, and correct me if I am wrong, but isn't everyone pissed off at some point? The only difference between new Green Day and old is that the newer songs are relatable on more then just the outer shell of emotions.
Actually I think Billy Joe wrote this song for his wife, he wrote the song because he wanter her to like him.
In the very beginning of the song, theres a few guitar licks that sound very similar to those in 1,000 Hours. It almost seems that this song somewhat of a continuation of 1,000 Hours.
Back on their albums on lookout! their lyrics were easier to relate too, but a lot less sophisticated and they generally seemed to revolve around Mr Armstrong's lady friends or just plain apathetic boredom.
why is it that no one ever writes for any of the good songs that came out before dookie like "at the library" or "dissapearing boy" or "dry ice"
the song to me is about a guy that has a crush on this gal but she has a boyfriend so the only way is to use his imagination. about every song of green day there is something that i can relate to which is one of the reasons i love their music.
the song to me is about a guy that has a crush on this gal but she has a boyfriend so the only way is to use his imagination. about every song of green day there is something that i can relate to which is one of the reasons i love their music.
I have asked this before (under Android), but what the hell is with that voice in the middle