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"
Nicoderm patch and a Marlboro red
Wild turkey out the bottle, gauz covers where the wrists bled
I begged and pled and fled rocking a hospital gown brain dead
Hitched a ride with a guy named Fred
Hey Fred, fuck that, Rehab, shit
I don't know if I want peace that bad
It's that I'm so comfortable, uncomfortable and sad
Everybody else seems to get mad, yeah, yeah
Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear
I look half dead from here and I need bread for beer
They're probably discovering my empty bed about now
No turning back, oh my God
I turn up the radio, rain smacking the window
I'm the Mario inside the Super Nintendo
Can't hide when you're sick
And the chemicals are holding the joystick
Hey Fred, fuck that, Rehab, shit
Cause I don't know if I want peace that bad, yeah, yeah
It seems that I'm so comfortable, uncomfortable and sad
But everybody else gets so damn mad, yeah, yeah
Vegitation, euphoric hope, I'm graspin'
Walkin' out the methadone clinic, fuck it, I'm relapsin'
Heaped up on more snow than Asperin
Looking for fudge ripple, I got my rig
Life is good, oh how you fig
Pump up my dose to triple, yo, main line
Noddin' out, fallin' on my spine
CC's and cheap wine, back to the land of the blind
Rewind, opium dens knockin' out brain cells in the tens of thousands
Hookers and junkie hens and shitty housin'
How arousing, day six in the desert, on a horse with no name
Gradual suicide, but whose to blame
I guess it's nobody's fault, I'm just lame
Nothin' stops cause if I'm headed back to Detox
I'm drinkin' Clorox
Hey Fred, fuck that, Rehab, shit
Cause I don't know if I want peace that bad, yeah, yeah
It seems that I'm so comfortable, uncomfortable and sad
But everybody else gets so damn mad, yeah, yeah
Quick Fred, floor it, I gotta get away
Hands me a J, says it will be okay
Like an old friend is the smell and the taste
You know, Fred, I just couldn't take that place
Hey Fred, fuck that, Rehab, shit
Cause I don't know if I want peace that bad, yeah, yeah
It seems that I'm so comfortable, uncomfortable and sad
But everybody else gets so damn mad, yeah, yeah
Hey Fred, hey Fred
Wild turkey out the bottle, gauz covers where the wrists bled
I begged and pled and fled rocking a hospital gown brain dead
Hitched a ride with a guy named Fred
Hey Fred, fuck that, Rehab, shit
I don't know if I want peace that bad
It's that I'm so comfortable, uncomfortable and sad
Everybody else seems to get mad, yeah, yeah
Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear
I look half dead from here and I need bread for beer
They're probably discovering my empty bed about now
No turning back, oh my God
I turn up the radio, rain smacking the window
I'm the Mario inside the Super Nintendo
Can't hide when you're sick
And the chemicals are holding the joystick
Hey Fred, fuck that, Rehab, shit
Cause I don't know if I want peace that bad, yeah, yeah
It seems that I'm so comfortable, uncomfortable and sad
But everybody else gets so damn mad, yeah, yeah
Vegitation, euphoric hope, I'm graspin'
Walkin' out the methadone clinic, fuck it, I'm relapsin'
Heaped up on more snow than Asperin
Looking for fudge ripple, I got my rig
Life is good, oh how you fig
Pump up my dose to triple, yo, main line
Noddin' out, fallin' on my spine
CC's and cheap wine, back to the land of the blind
Rewind, opium dens knockin' out brain cells in the tens of thousands
Hookers and junkie hens and shitty housin'
How arousing, day six in the desert, on a horse with no name
Gradual suicide, but whose to blame
I guess it's nobody's fault, I'm just lame
Nothin' stops cause if I'm headed back to Detox
I'm drinkin' Clorox
Hey Fred, fuck that, Rehab, shit
Cause I don't know if I want peace that bad, yeah, yeah
It seems that I'm so comfortable, uncomfortable and sad
But everybody else gets so damn mad, yeah, yeah
Quick Fred, floor it, I gotta get away
Hands me a J, says it will be okay
Like an old friend is the smell and the taste
You know, Fred, I just couldn't take that place
Hey Fred, fuck that, Rehab, shit
Cause I don't know if I want peace that bad, yeah, yeah
It seems that I'm so comfortable, uncomfortable and sad
But everybody else gets so damn mad, yeah, yeah
Hey Fred, hey Fred
Hey Fred Lyrics as written by Jason Brooks Daniel Alexander
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Royalty Network, Songtrust Ave
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