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"
you can't lead the punks to reason, but you can't make them think, and lifelong trouble with the burning fists and angry hearts of america's young is a fear of the new and the narrow outdated tunnels they see the world through. and where to turn, but up one's own ass where the answers are free but shit, nonetheless.. we're used to the smell and content with the mess because a slogan's much easier than a second guess.. and still we water paper flowers, thinking we've found the way for tomorrow, lest we forget: the empty heads will always be the first to try and kill what's already dead.
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that metaphor about sticking your head up your ass is genius. billy whatshisface is the greatest.
Werner.
Maybe it's just me, but Hot Cross seems a lot angrier than Saetia was. I like it.
billy werner...he is a lyrical genius.
"and still we water paper flowers, thinking we've found the way for tomorrow"
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i am so sick of people
I love this song to death, its where I got my user name from. :) Billy is a great vocalist, and Hot Cross is/was an incredible band.
Here is my interpretation "you can't lead the punks to reason, but you can't make them think, and lifelong trouble with the burning fists and angry hearts of america's young is a fear of the new and the narrow outdated tunnels they see the world through." People are trying to make punk-rock kids think differently because they are open-minded and think differently, and adopt the ideals they believe, the ideals they consider to be reasonable. They have a rage and power because they are young and they don't like the world around them, because of the people pushing their bullshit ideas on them and because of the general situations in current society.
"and where to turn, but up one's own ass where the answers are free but shit, nonetheless.. we're used to the smell and content with the mess because a slogan's much easier than a second guess." The ideas being forced upon these kids is close-minded crap (made literal by the reference) by people with their heads up their asses. People are so used to being close-minded and dealing with the mess because it's tough to change.
"and still we water paper flowers, thinking we've found the way for tomorrow, lest we forget: the empty heads will always be the first to try and kill what's already dead." The paper flowers are symbolizing if you get a paper wet, it will fall apart. The people destroying the world and society are making things fall apart. The song comes to a close, by saying the types of people have to preach and tell others what to believe and who to be are just killing society even more, and what is the point...it's so messed up as it is that it might as well be dead.
R.I.P. Hot Cross.
That first line should be "you can lead the punks to reason," an obvious play on "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink."<br /> <br /> In my mind, this song exemplifies the ideals of the post-hardcore genre. It's calling out the punks for becoming narrow minded perpetuators of a movement that stopped making a difference long ago. <br /> <br /> At the same time the melody is in a way showing the transition from the simplistic, overly imitated style of hardcore punk to the vastly more experimental post-hardcore sound. Where in the beginning it's a simple 3 chord progression, around a minute in it gives way to melodic dueling guitars.<br /> <br /> The phrase "we're used to the smell and content with the mess because a slogan's much easier than a second guess" is telling of the repetitive nature of punk themes and the hollow chants that dominate their hits. Meaningless slogans that sound promising but that essentially mean nothing ("If the kids are united they will never be divided"...).<br /> <br /> And watering paper flowers is a great metaphor, as they may look pretty, but they're just for show — trying to feed them wont make them grow, it'll just kill them.<br /> <br /> That said, there were some great punk bands that did make change during their time. But those bands gave way to overly-aggressive meathead crap that inspired a split in the scene. This song is an illustration of that split.
meant to post that at the bottom, not as a reply. Sorry.
His voice is similar to his old band saetia,its cool though cause its like a new version of saetia... And hot cross arent broken up there just in a hiatus