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 am you are me)
(I am you are me) good woman said you gotta believe
(I am you are me) submerge into the urge of we
(I am you are me) deliciously the mystery, the mystery
One big mob aw yea aw yea
One big mob aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
(One big mob is)
Ooze into into my noodle
East or west shepherd or poodle
Ladybug pine tree to mingle with the bumblebee
A lover to the sun and a brother to the cool breeze
(One big mob is)
One big mob aw yea aw yea
One big mob aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
(One big mob is)
We live in the city we live in the jungle
It's time to be drinking a thimble humble
Everything you ever see is never more than you and me
Give it on in to the beauty of the mystery
One big mob is home
One big mob is home a broken home
I'd like to share some air with you some air with you
A morning forest full of truths
The green is blue
The head that's getting pregnant lives to give and give
What was I thinking in my head the color red
Breaking hearts instead of bread
Something I said
Checkmated by frustration now
Need to be cut loose
A different kind of being lost a sullen cost
(I am, you are me)
(I am, you are me) good woman said you gotta believe
(I am, you are me)
(I am, you are me) submerge into the urge of we
(I am, you are me) deliciously
(I am, you are me) the mystery the mystery
One big mob aw yea aw yea
One big mob aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
(One big mob is)
Scrawled upon the wall of a bathroom stall
A stranger wrote a note that spoke to all
One, two, buckle my shoe
Take care of me 'cause I might be you
(One big mob is)
One big mob aw yea aw yea
One big mob aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
(One big mob is)
Picaboo street in Timbuktu
Do I need repeat
That a boy named Sue
Rockin' to the beat of the kangaroo
Let me kiss your feet and your forehead too
(One big mob is)
(I am you are me) good woman said you gotta believe
(I am you are me) submerge into the urge of we
(I am you are me) deliciously the mystery, the mystery
One big mob aw yea aw yea
One big mob aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
(One big mob is)
Ooze into into my noodle
East or west shepherd or poodle
Ladybug pine tree to mingle with the bumblebee
A lover to the sun and a brother to the cool breeze
(One big mob is)
One big mob aw yea aw yea
One big mob aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
(One big mob is)
We live in the city we live in the jungle
It's time to be drinking a thimble humble
Everything you ever see is never more than you and me
Give it on in to the beauty of the mystery
One big mob is home
One big mob is home a broken home
I'd like to share some air with you some air with you
A morning forest full of truths
The green is blue
The head that's getting pregnant lives to give and give
What was I thinking in my head the color red
Breaking hearts instead of bread
Something I said
Checkmated by frustration now
Need to be cut loose
A different kind of being lost a sullen cost
(I am, you are me)
(I am, you are me) good woman said you gotta believe
(I am, you are me)
(I am, you are me) submerge into the urge of we
(I am, you are me) deliciously
(I am, you are me) the mystery the mystery
One big mob aw yea aw yea
One big mob aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
(One big mob is)
Scrawled upon the wall of a bathroom stall
A stranger wrote a note that spoke to all
One, two, buckle my shoe
Take care of me 'cause I might be you
(One big mob is)
One big mob aw yea aw yea
One big mob aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
Ek bara mala aw yea aw yea
(One big mob is)
Picaboo street in Timbuktu
Do I need repeat
That a boy named Sue
Rockin' to the beat of the kangaroo
Let me kiss your feet and your forehead too
(One big mob is)
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The begining of the song which aficianado mentioned: I am you are me. Might be seen from 2 different points of view. 1st is that it means nothing and it is just put together to sound good like lyrics at the begining of I am the Walrus (Beatles) - I am he, As you are he, As you are me, And we are all together. Or the 2nd possibility might be as Ghoelix says all the people of the world - we are the same, we percieve reality the same, we have (almost) the same needs thats why: I am you are me.
This is what I've picked up from the song (my perception has changed from living in another country for 5 months) I've just been living in the outback of Australia in a small aboriginal community and one word the idiginous always used in any context was "mob". Your family was your mob, your friends were your mob, anything could belong to a mob, even animals. Flea is from Australia and the song also makes another Australian reference "Rockin' to the beat of a kangaroo" so I recon they are using the word mob as the aboriginals use it as in we're all connected/related. One line that I notice no one's talked about is "Breaking hearts instead of bread" I really like that line alot, and I think it touches on how we might be all one big mob, related, yet we still hurt each other instead of helping each other (eg, we rob each our neighbours, we beat our kids, we lie to anyone)
what a great song
"I am you are me" - an identity crisis?
lolol yea, probably...i love this song!
i think its about a fight, then him goin all weird like collapsing or soemthing?
flea hillel and anthony lived with a bunch of other friends in a house when they were teenagers.. maybe its about that..
Or maybe its about when anthony lived with blackie and there were a crapload of junkies always over..
That could be what the 'one big mob in one big home, a broken home' bit means...
hmm perhaps polak
i think it's a load of random things all put into one song though lol
i think it's a load of random things all put into one song though lol
no idea bout the meaning but it's such a cool song