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When We Two Parted Lyrics
Baby, I see you've made yourself all sick again
Didn't I do a good job of pretending?
You're saying that the victim doesn't want it to end
Good. I get to dress up and play the assassin again
It's my favorite
It's got personality
I should have seen this shit coming down the hall
Every night I spent in that bed with you facing the wall
If I could have only once heard you scream
To feel you were alive
Instead of watching you abandoning yourself
Baby you can open your eyes now
And please allow me to present you with a clue
If I inflict the pain
Then baby only I can comfort you
Out of the night we come
Into the night we go
If it starts to hurt you
Then you have to say so
Out of the night we come
Into the night we go
If it starts to hurt you
Then you have to say so
Didn't I do a good job of pretending?
You're saying that the victim doesn't want it to end
Good. I get to dress up and play the assassin again
It's my favorite
It's got personality
Every night I spent in that bed with you facing the wall
If I could have only once heard you scream
To feel you were alive
Instead of watching you abandoning yourself
And please allow me to present you with a clue
If I inflict the pain
Then baby only I can comfort you
Into the night we go
If it starts to hurt you
Then you have to say so
Into the night we go
If it starts to hurt you
Then you have to say so
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title's taken from a byron poem.
a torturous relationship coming to an end
secrets create drama, especially when they are secrets we hide from ourselves to get away. The truth pulls us back and it hurts.
Once upon a time, I saw this as a theme song to my relatonship with my ex girl friend. She was un happy and in pain and was very silent about it, although the trouble within was clear and would manifest in ways that had nothing to do with the real problems.
The song was true to us but I was wrong with how I viewed it. It was her lonliness who was her partner who inflicted the pain and it was not I that cold comfort her, but it was the pain itself.
None the less the pattern remained and she would go to her partner bringing us into the night, and I would bring us out of the night taking away the thing that brought her comfort and it wasn't me.
The New Amsterdams version is pretty much an insult to Greg Dulli. This is one of the most powerfully emotional songs I've ever heard, however the meaning is pretty obvious.
The greatest second verse ever:
I should have seen this shit coming down the hall Every night I spent in that bed with you facing the wall If I could have only once heard you scream To feel you were alive Instead of watching you abandoning yourself
Dulli is a genius.
and please allow me to present you with a clue if i inflict the pain then baby only i can comfort you
I had no idea how deep these lyrics where until i lived it. Filled with so much pain. Watching hopelessly everything you love drowns. The sickening realization that you put the whole in the boat.
It is about violence and trauma. Drug addiction and the pain of watching someone you love kill themselves. Dying a little more everyday. Spiritually and emotionally. You can see these things clearly but are powerless to stop them. You can see this because you're dying the same way. At the hands of a narcissistic monster.
definitely 100x better than the new amsterdams cover. this song is brilliant. "if i inflict the pain / then baby only i can comfort you / YAH!"