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 wanna try that pill that people take
Make you believe all the things that people say
Sick of shuckin' 'round with a screwed up face
With my heels dug in, trying to leave a trace
Now come on, put me down somehow
How you lose your faith
Just take my hand and lead me where you wanna
Pay no more mind to what you think you've seen
It's as they do only, say, what they say
'Cause, there's only one way, they say, vision
It takes you back to just where you want
Like when you ain't know no way
Pay no more mind to what you think you've seen
It's as they do only, say, what they say
'Cause, there's only one way, they say, vision
It takes you back to just where you want
Like when you ain't know no way
Industry's down, think I've died and I've flown away, yeah
So, so, long to them thieves
Who came and took all the things to say
I play the joker sometimes
But then those moments slide back my way
'Cause, for real, I'd give my soul away, give it all away
So, take my hand and lead me where you wanna
Pay no more mind to what you think you've seen
It's as they do only, say, what they say
'Cause, there's only one way, they say, vision
It takes you back to just where you want
Like when you ain't know no way
Pay no more mind to what you think you've seen
It's as they do only, say, what they say
'Cause, there's only one way, they say, vision
It takes you back to just where you want
Like when you ain't know no way
I know where they all go find someplace
Where they don't mind loafing about the waste
They say, vision takes you back to where no conscience
Free from how you really see
And if you think that you know, take the back road
I wanna try that pill that people take
I wanna try that pill that people take
I wanna try that pill that people take
Make you believe all the things that people say
Sick of shuckin' 'round with a screwed up face
With my heels dug in, trying to leave a trace
Now come on, put me down somehow
How you lose your faith
Pay no more mind to what you think you've seen
It's as they do only, say, what they say
'Cause, there's only one way, they say, vision
It takes you back to just where you want
Like when you ain't know no way
Pay no more mind to what you think you've seen
It's as they do only, say, what they say
'Cause, there's only one way, they say, vision
It takes you back to just where you want
Like when you ain't know no way
Pay no more mind to what you think you've seen
It's as they do only, say, what they say
'Cause, there's only one way
Make you believe all the things that people say
Sick of shuckin' 'round with a screwed up face
With my heels dug in, trying to leave a trace
Now come on, put me down somehow
How you lose your faith
Just take my hand and lead me where you wanna
Pay no more mind to what you think you've seen
It's as they do only, say, what they say
'Cause, there's only one way, they say, vision
It takes you back to just where you want
Like when you ain't know no way
Pay no more mind to what you think you've seen
It's as they do only, say, what they say
'Cause, there's only one way, they say, vision
It takes you back to just where you want
Like when you ain't know no way
Industry's down, think I've died and I've flown away, yeah
So, so, long to them thieves
Who came and took all the things to say
I play the joker sometimes
But then those moments slide back my way
'Cause, for real, I'd give my soul away, give it all away
So, take my hand and lead me where you wanna
Pay no more mind to what you think you've seen
It's as they do only, say, what they say
'Cause, there's only one way, they say, vision
It takes you back to just where you want
Like when you ain't know no way
Pay no more mind to what you think you've seen
It's as they do only, say, what they say
'Cause, there's only one way, they say, vision
It takes you back to just where you want
Like when you ain't know no way
I know where they all go find someplace
Where they don't mind loafing about the waste
They say, vision takes you back to where no conscience
Free from how you really see
And if you think that you know, take the back road
I wanna try that pill that people take
I wanna try that pill that people take
I wanna try that pill that people take
Make you believe all the things that people say
Sick of shuckin' 'round with a screwed up face
With my heels dug in, trying to leave a trace
Now come on, put me down somehow
How you lose your faith
Pay no more mind to what you think you've seen
It's as they do only, say, what they say
'Cause, there's only one way, they say, vision
It takes you back to just where you want
Like when you ain't know no way
Pay no more mind to what you think you've seen
It's as they do only, say, what they say
'Cause, there's only one way, they say, vision
It takes you back to just where you want
Like when you ain't know no way
Pay no more mind to what you think you've seen
It's as they do only, say, what they say
'Cause, there's only one way
Lyrics submitted by princemarzmusic
They Say Vision Lyrics as written by Santi White Martin Mckinney
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Downtown Music Publishing, Anthem Entertainment
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I love this song and its profound message. You may think that she is condemning societal conditioning. However when I hear the song I get this feeling that what she is talking about the possibility of feeding into the conditions and being in the "in crowd". She want to be in the main social circle if just for a moment. She tired of being the misunderstood as well as critiqued harshly due to her individualism. An individualism she has taken upon herself because she has always strived to be different, in a way that would be notable possibly one day to the point that her mark would be set in stone for future generations to mimic. She losing her drive as well as her faith and is about to give up her quest and give into sins conditions. She is being sarcastic. She does not really want to give up on dreaming and hope. She just wants to know where and how one comes to believe in disbelieving. She is well aware of how much society has lost its drive for faith and hope. She believes all the ways to make most of dreams come true has been stolen by the corporate tycoons and industrial gurus. Thus leaving us little to see to make us believe we can still achieve our dreams. She believes this is where they want us all to be in order to harness and control our conditioning. And so we bend to a truth of these dreams dreams being not reachable and give up.She says pay no mind to what you think your looking at because what you see is not really what you get. It is all frotch and frills to dress it up to make it seem so beautiful and reputable. However, observe what come out of the seemingly perfect effort. What comes out of it is what you were really looking at. Observe the fruits of the effort then you will know what was planted. Also she saying listen to them carefully so you can recall their exact words for comparison in the end. Was this fruit what was to be expected by the efforts initially taken on? Or was it foreign to the details spoke of concerning the effort. Moreover she is suggesting that vision nurtures a persons ability to preserve themselves. She believes vision to be a fountain of youth of a sort and is toying with the possibility of prolonging ones youth as well as preserving their innocence. Vision renders you timeless. This makes anything possible. So she wants to just see what makes them choose to stop dreaming and be led like a puppet just for a moment. But pills do wear down.......
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