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"
Something about the way you taste
Makes me wanna clear my throat
There's a message to your movements
That really gets my goat
I looked for silver linings
But you're rotten to the core
I've had just about all I can take
You know I can't take it no more
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut feeling, feeling
Centered 'round long time ago
On your ability to torment
Then you took your tongs of love
And stripped away my garment
I looked for silver linings
But you're rotten to the core
I've had just about all I can take
You know I can't take it no more
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut feeling, feeling
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut feeling, feeling
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut feeling, feeling
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut feeling, feeling
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut feeling, feeling
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut
Makes me wanna clear my throat
There's a message to your movements
That really gets my goat
I looked for silver linings
But you're rotten to the core
I've had just about all I can take
You know I can't take it no more
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut feeling, feeling
Centered 'round long time ago
On your ability to torment
Then you took your tongs of love
And stripped away my garment
I looked for silver linings
But you're rotten to the core
I've had just about all I can take
You know I can't take it no more
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut feeling, feeling
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut feeling, feeling
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut feeling, feeling
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut feeling, feeling
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut feeling, feeling
Got a gut feeling
Got a gut
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Gut Feeling Lyrics as written by Robert Mothersbaugh Mark Allen Mothersbaugh
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come on people, it is SNIFFY linings
this is a great song, bought the album when it first came out and loved every bit of it
this song is about falling for a hot girl that is evil and having her mess you up to where it drives you nuts in the deep of your gut no matter how much you try to see any goodness in her, yet you keep on having sex with her anyways
@jopsie ‘Slippy’ linings?
It's about how he can taste another man (or woman) on her... That's why he wants to clear his throat. He has a gut feeling she's cheating on him. He knows she's tormenting him and he wants to dump her, but her "tongs" (tongue?) have stripped away his will. I think in the end he just winds up having anger-sex with her.
I think this song is about stalking and then (sudden change to slap your mammy) raping a girl. Its just done in the very dry DEVO way in which things of high emotions are said in the simplest terms possible.
Neonsolid, that, or someone beating/raping their spouse after they get a "gut feeling" that they're cheating?
It really should be "silver linings," since that verse is all cliches, but you know that wacky Devo, sniffy it is.
It does sound a bit like mark's singing of "sniffy linings" but it's surely it's "I looked for SILVER linings, but you're rotten to the core" .... ahhh much better.
Awesome song...I heard this off "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou"..very odd movie, but great soundtrack.
come on, someone else has gotta like this song....
I heard it from the Dogtown and Z-Boys documentary. And damnit, it's great.
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