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"
sailing all alone, guided by starlight
nowhere is my home
inside of my mind
we've paid that shoeshine boy
whose buff has no smile
he spits on your tip-toes
and you keep hugging folklore
like it's out of style, out of focus
harum scarum
we promote this cover, discover
and you know your insides true
better than i do
nowhere is my home
inside of my mind
we've paid that shoeshine boy
whose buff has no smile
he spits on your tip-toes
and you keep hugging folklore
like it's out of style, out of focus
harum scarum
we promote this cover, discover
and you know your insides true
better than i do
Lyrics submitted by cbennett
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but i cant seem to follow the lyrics :'(
i don't have the slightest (no pun intended) idea what this song means, but everytime i start up the "Acrobatic Tenement" CD this song always seems to greet me with a handshake and a punch.
This song is about a person who is all alone because they are not following tradition. "We promote this cover, discover" is saying that he is in the right, and that the person it is talkng about knows him/herself to be right as well.
That seems like a good explanation to me. The stars light is his own path. The screamer guy is talking about allthe people who conform maybe? Anyway I wish the song was longer I cant get enough of it. ATDI-SPARTA!
this song is awesome. and so was at the drive-in
i think this song is just about travelling around with no destination for the sake of just getting away
i love this song :)
AHHH i love this song:) it's so.... sweet in a way well in my way it makes me feel happy and sad at the same time WOW they were an amazing band!!:(
"sailing all alone, guided on by starslight nowhere is my home inside of my mind "
His mind is set free and his thoughts will direct him. The thoughts he has are of his own and it is he and only he who will come up with his own ideals, opinions, and thoughts.
"we've paid that shoeshine boy whose buff has no smile he spits on your tip-toes and you keep hugging folklore like it's out of style, out of focus harum scarum "
We have all let somebody else at some point polish a thought for us. They've made the decision on what we were to do because you were afraid of stepping outside the cliched box.
"we promote this cover, discover"
Discover...yourself and your own mind.
"and you know your insides true better than i do"
These lyrics are somewhat flawed, where as it is more of a question, Jim actually does say "do you know..." at a few points. The other time's it is like he is directing somebody to know themselves.
Pretty simple song, great opener. Great cover by The Impossibles as well check that out.
theres cover? Woooooooooooow i must have it :D
song is about cleaning shoes ;)