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"
Sound boy proceed to blast into the galaxy
Go back rocket man into the sky you'll see
Hear it all the time, come back rewind
Aliens are waiting up in the sky
Sound boy proceed to blast into the galaxy
Sound boy when you come round
Sound boy won't you stay
No one gonna harm you
They all want you to play
I watch the birds of prey
That hunt the canyon below my house
They're lookin' for a meal like a lizard or a mouse
I wonder if they appreciate the setting like me
To control your own direction, choose to be free
And I reserve the right to be as trite as I want
And you can lick but don't bite I toss you here to Vermont
I kick it lickety split
And hand it to the man in the tan van
And, as for you and your crew I don't hate you
Peace is my priority 'cause Marley said for sure-ity
Just what do you think I'm doin' I'm not only here for screwin' yo
And if it's sore take care of it perhaps from too much stucking
But anytime you're aware of it then keep on fuckin'
You know we cool (Isn't that random?)
When we come 'bout people get ready (Isn't that random? Gonna freak it national)
Sound boy is gonna rock you (Isn't that random?)
People rock steady (Isn't that random?)
To be the one who has it all is not that hard
And I'll be that type of dude in a funky car I dream of a suit that will fit my ride
When I recognize my girl from a former life
I love it when the only sound that I hear Is your infectious laughter
I will hear you again in 800 years If I'm still lucky
Go north on outpost then take a left on Mullholland
To me that's where I like it and Macapa Drive is callin'
I get up to the sun and then I stretch out
It's Beginning to look like summer
And I'm down with no doubt swing
You know we cool (Isn't that random?)
When we come 'bout people get ready (Isn't that random? Gonna freak it national)
Sound boy is gonna rock you (Isn't that random?)
People rock steady (Isn't that random?)
I break a silly peace for offering rap weasel
Then I'm boffering I'd give you an exclusive on my playlist
The vibes and rhymes I kick are from a random hat pick
That's why most radio will never play this tell 'em again
Me a rude boy from Omaha, Nebraska
Sick as a porno flick yet gold as precious laughter
Many don't agree but we can't care about that
'Cause we're never gonna wear the old hat.
Spoken
Go back rocket man into the sky you'll see
Hear it all the time, come back rewind
Aliens are waiting up in the sky
Sound boy proceed to blast into the galaxy
Sound boy when you come round
Sound boy won't you stay
No one gonna harm you
They all want you to play
I watch the birds of prey
That hunt the canyon below my house
They're lookin' for a meal like a lizard or a mouse
I wonder if they appreciate the setting like me
To control your own direction, choose to be free
And I reserve the right to be as trite as I want
And you can lick but don't bite I toss you here to Vermont
I kick it lickety split
And hand it to the man in the tan van
And, as for you and your crew I don't hate you
Peace is my priority 'cause Marley said for sure-ity
Just what do you think I'm doin' I'm not only here for screwin' yo
And if it's sore take care of it perhaps from too much stucking
But anytime you're aware of it then keep on fuckin'
You know we cool (Isn't that random?)
When we come 'bout people get ready (Isn't that random? Gonna freak it national)
Sound boy is gonna rock you (Isn't that random?)
People rock steady (Isn't that random?)
To be the one who has it all is not that hard
And I'll be that type of dude in a funky car I dream of a suit that will fit my ride
When I recognize my girl from a former life
I love it when the only sound that I hear Is your infectious laughter
I will hear you again in 800 years If I'm still lucky
Go north on outpost then take a left on Mullholland
To me that's where I like it and Macapa Drive is callin'
I get up to the sun and then I stretch out
It's Beginning to look like summer
And I'm down with no doubt swing
You know we cool (Isn't that random?)
When we come 'bout people get ready (Isn't that random? Gonna freak it national)
Sound boy is gonna rock you (Isn't that random?)
People rock steady (Isn't that random?)
I break a silly peace for offering rap weasel
Then I'm boffering I'd give you an exclusive on my playlist
The vibes and rhymes I kick are from a random hat pick
That's why most radio will never play this tell 'em again
Me a rude boy from Omaha, Nebraska
Sick as a porno flick yet gold as precious laughter
Many don't agree but we can't care about that
'Cause we're never gonna wear the old hat.
Spoken
Lyrics submitted by pen1234567
Random Lyrics as written by Douglas Martinez Chad Sexton
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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"I watch the birds of prey that hunt the canyon below my house they're looking for a meal like a lizard or a mouse "