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 like sports, so there are some things I force myself to miss
Like I never met an athlete I like, and hockey in Texas
But when it comes to Native American nicknamed teams
Even within the context of sports it's awful and mean
And you'll go "wah wah wah, you're so PC"
And I will say "wait"
My my my, how have the tables turned so that being a fucking prick is a desirable trait?
While we're on the subject of changing team names
There's no jazz in Utah and few lakes in LA
Just this once, give me the benefit of the doubt
The Bullets became the Wizards, too violent? Get out!
And you'll go "wah wah wah, you're so PC"
And I will say "wait"
Remind me again how it came to be that being 'the stupid American' became a desirable trait
Wouldn't it be offensive if we cheered "rah rah rah" for the Carolina Negroes
With our beat box cheer in our fake foam afros?
Or if the Minnesota Vikes became the New York Kikes
With dollar bills on their helmets cause that's what they like, you know?
"Atom, what about the Saints, Angels, Padres too?
Ain't that the same thing for Christians that's offending you?"
When there's a Jesus Christ Mascot hot dog shooting crucifix thing
Nailed to a cross, dying to save the team
You'll be right, you'll be right
But until then
You're not right
So what's your take on the Washington Redskins, what's your take on the Cleveland Indians?
What's your take on the Washington Redskins, what's your take on the Cleveland Indians?
Like I never met an athlete I like, and hockey in Texas
But when it comes to Native American nicknamed teams
Even within the context of sports it's awful and mean
And you'll go "wah wah wah, you're so PC"
And I will say "wait"
My my my, how have the tables turned so that being a fucking prick is a desirable trait?
While we're on the subject of changing team names
There's no jazz in Utah and few lakes in LA
Just this once, give me the benefit of the doubt
The Bullets became the Wizards, too violent? Get out!
And you'll go "wah wah wah, you're so PC"
And I will say "wait"
Remind me again how it came to be that being 'the stupid American' became a desirable trait
Wouldn't it be offensive if we cheered "rah rah rah" for the Carolina Negroes
With our beat box cheer in our fake foam afros?
Or if the Minnesota Vikes became the New York Kikes
With dollar bills on their helmets cause that's what they like, you know?
"Atom, what about the Saints, Angels, Padres too?
Ain't that the same thing for Christians that's offending you?"
When there's a Jesus Christ Mascot hot dog shooting crucifix thing
Nailed to a cross, dying to save the team
You'll be right, you'll be right
But until then
You're not right
So what's your take on the Washington Redskins, what's your take on the Cleveland Indians?
What's your take on the Washington Redskins, what's your take on the Cleveland Indians?
Lyrics submitted by vinnyrex
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