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 don't mean to piss you off with things I might say
But when I try to shut my mouth they come out anyway
When I speak my mind, that's when we connect
But that's not politically correct
Our heads are so filled with thought, we can't use our imagination
Like a sky so filled with stars, you can't find a constellation
And everyone's so sensitive to every bad vibration
We're so impressing while we're regressing
There's nothing I believe in more than my own insignificance
So why does everybody think that my words can make a difference
I just don't have time to think up every social consequence
I'll just keep on talking you keep applauding
I don't mean to piss you off with things I might say
But when I try to shut my mouth they come out anyway
If you spoke your mind you might feel more connected
Until you get politically corrected
You lean a little to the left or the right but
You can only see what's on your side.
Look a little like a deer in the headlights
A little blind a little hypnotized.
So you conform with the best of intention
Change comes from inside.
After all that's what this country was founded on
Do nothing different just fall in line.
What happened to make us so afraid
You couldn't make a Mel Brooks movie today
I saw Blazing Saddles yesterday
But when I try to shut my mouth they come out anyway
When I speak my mind, that's when we connect
But that's not politically correct
Our heads are so filled with thought, we can't use our imagination
Like a sky so filled with stars, you can't find a constellation
And everyone's so sensitive to every bad vibration
We're so impressing while we're regressing
There's nothing I believe in more than my own insignificance
So why does everybody think that my words can make a difference
I just don't have time to think up every social consequence
I'll just keep on talking you keep applauding
I don't mean to piss you off with things I might say
But when I try to shut my mouth they come out anyway
If you spoke your mind you might feel more connected
Until you get politically corrected
You lean a little to the left or the right but
You can only see what's on your side.
Look a little like a deer in the headlights
A little blind a little hypnotized.
So you conform with the best of intention
Change comes from inside.
After all that's what this country was founded on
Do nothing different just fall in line.
What happened to make us so afraid
You couldn't make a Mel Brooks movie today
I saw Blazing Saddles yesterday
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there's 2 ppl w/ a relationship & something it's going wrong. this guy thinks there's a problem w/ her being so mainstream & doing everything for the rest of the world. he's more of an individual & she's overrated so he's trying to tell her hey ~ don't worry about it & say what you think & not what the rest of the world wants you to say
huh?
I don't think this song is about a relationship. The way he adresses everythign is too general. I think he's singing about just people in general. He saying that we would do anything to be just ordinary and difference is something you don't come across often. "After all that's what this country was founded on Do nothing different just fall in line."
Sr-71 just isnt good with words, thier songs have no meaning, but the tune is cool
i know this is an old-ish song but i just heard it when i was chillin with my friends and they really thought it related to me b/c i always say the first thing that comes to my head without really thinking about it and half the time it gets people mad...so i just dont mean to piss you off with the things i might say
I registerd JUST to respond to you Torrente. Their songs have lots of meaning. They are very good with words. Politically Correct is an amazing song.
This song si basically bout he gets treated like crap because of how PC our society is. it's great social commentary.
"After all that's what this country was founded on Do nothing different just fall in line"
What the crap?!? I seem to remember our country being founded on ideals that were slightly different from others'.
superheroboy: sarcasm? yea, thats what i thought.
the song is just a general description of how pc everything is. it just seems like you can't say anything without offending someone these days because our country has become so diverse. they don't think they should catch crap for what they say because they don't mean to offend anyone, they're just speaking their mind, no one can think freely because of the limitations put on us
I personally think the meaning of the song is simple. You can't state your opinion anymore without someone finding something wrong with it. And I don't mean they disagree with you, I mean they say "That's racist!" "That's sexist!" etc. Seriously, you can't say black without being accused of racism. It's so fucking stupid how we are so damn sensitive about the stupidist shit. He's basically saying, there are more important things going on in the world, why are you focusing so much on my opinion?
Everytime I try to put the meaning in more simplistic wordsthe more i fail to do so. The song is about how complacent we as a people have become, so prepared to attack(both figurative and literal) anyone that appears/acts differently. In a single sentence he's saying/asking why the hell did social interaction take precedence over paying attention to the world, and how these new teens act like they have no control over their future when they ultimatly end up inherenting the future. <br /> <br /> Change comes from inside.<br /> After all that's what this country was founded on<br /> Do nothing different just fall in line: Over the 200+ years we've called ourselves the United States we simply stopped trying to change things for the better and let other people/groups lead us into ruin.<br /> <br /> By the way for my own sanity, would you damn kids stop relating every song to a relationship?<br /> (i could make a song about being a sadist's relationship with his knife but would you want to hear that?)... ok ranting over<br /> <br /> What does pc mean? "the song is just a general description of how pc everything is." I'm getting old now and i'm only 20....