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"
It rained because I took the dust of
your bones crushed and seeds all the clouds
It rained for days a blaze of hail and stones
the size of men around your house
Rusy spring uncoils in a baby bottle
Toddler screams overpower the infant death rattle
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the spiral stairs
It's lame because it fell above the needs of this
pretend life and his wishes
So now it limps and counts the hours
Watches the clock by pounding doves and dishes
Delta Force plays on your old gray moniter
Power Team breaks flaming blocks of cinder
Sick of sickness. Youre unkind and a liar
Get your kicks a witness to feeble slaughter
In your castle all your candles drip on the pavement
And the cattle that you laid down drip on the
pavement, from what I've heard
Heard, heard, heard
Cold wet floor
Heard heard
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the spiral stairs
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the spiral stairs
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the spiral stairs
Push
your bones crushed and seeds all the clouds
It rained for days a blaze of hail and stones
the size of men around your house
Rusy spring uncoils in a baby bottle
Toddler screams overpower the infant death rattle
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the spiral stairs
It's lame because it fell above the needs of this
pretend life and his wishes
So now it limps and counts the hours
Watches the clock by pounding doves and dishes
Delta Force plays on your old gray moniter
Power Team breaks flaming blocks of cinder
Sick of sickness. Youre unkind and a liar
Get your kicks a witness to feeble slaughter
In your castle all your candles drip on the pavement
And the cattle that you laid down drip on the
pavement, from what I've heard
Heard, heard, heard
Cold wet floor
Heard heard
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the spiral stairs
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the spiral stairs
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the
Push the little baby down the spiral stairs
Push
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this song can come across as pretty mentally messed up...my boyfriend gets freaked out everytime i start chanting 'push the little baby down the spiral stairs,' but it's the coolest sinister sounding sound i've ever freakin' heard.
would the metaphorical meaning be that people start young and are introduced to violence (or a general messed up world) and follow down that path the rest of their life.
This makes me question whether "push the little baby down the spiral stairs" is saying it's better to rid ourselves of humans (and thus less evil / violence) or if he's saying that we're all pushed down the spiral stairs as kids and just keep falling after that?
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Thus, the reason its called shag. Unwanted child from meaningless sex.
Whoa, you don't really know what he's saying until you look at the lyrics, kind of freakish
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I think I'm taking this way too literally... but this song just reminds me of child abuse...
the song contains "pavement" and "spiral stairs". i always figured it was a reference to the band/band member.. i'm probably the only person to think that, though, i'm guessing.
Woah yeah I get what your saying boojitsu. Analogue, you should research that and then comment back telling us what you found, you might have something.
I think Delta Force is an old computer game isn't it? That would make sense since you use a monitor with a computer.
delta force - black hawk down. suuuch a good game...
i had no idea that these are the lrics to this song til now... still a fairly catchy tune though