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"
Let my spirit ride on a one way mule
Blistered skin in a cold hearted pool
Distant emotion hides a concrete wall
Naked and anchored
I'll climb right back to you
Love me for my mind
'cause I'm a dangerous heart
when I've got time to kill
I'm coming back to you
Distant emotion hides a concrete wall
Do you feel
Do you feel
Do you need
Love me for my mind
'cause I'm a dangerous heart
when I've got time to kill
I'm coming back to you
Love me for my mind
'cause I'm a dangerous heart
when I've got time to kill
I'm coming back to you
Patient career of sleep in a Sunday dress
Rides my wake
Go!
Blistered skin in a cold hearted pool
Distant emotion hides a concrete wall
Naked and anchored
I'll climb right back to you
Love me for my mind
'cause I'm a dangerous heart
when I've got time to kill
I'm coming back to you
Distant emotion hides a concrete wall
Do you feel
Do you feel
Do you need
Love me for my mind
'cause I'm a dangerous heart
when I've got time to kill
I'm coming back to you
Love me for my mind
'cause I'm a dangerous heart
when I've got time to kill
I'm coming back to you
Patient career of sleep in a Sunday dress
Rides my wake
Go!
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man i LOVE the chorus to this song. woo.
this song is wonderfullll!!! bravo silverchair
this has an excellent tune and the chorus ROCKS!! the whole of Diorama rocks!!!!!!!!!!
in the corus he sings ---time to kill, i'm coming back to you--- do you thinks hes goin to kill 'you' or will he kill the time?
Caesium...I've been wondering the same thing....
When he has time to commit the act of murder, or when he has extra time?
Oh well. ::Shrug:: I guess it's one of those double entendres. I love those. :)
This Song Is Awesome, The Whole Cd Is Awesome, Thanx Silver Chair For Bringing Out Another Brilliant Album!
I think what he means when he says " When i've got time to kill i'm comming back for you" is that when a heart is broken its just like killing someone. Sort of like he's going to get the best of them this time type deal. At least that's what I tihnk.
"When i've got time to kill i'm comming back for you" At this part, when this song is played live, the crowd usually goes nuts hehe :P pretty cool
This lyric may have been from natalies point of view, to me hes saying that natalie came to daniel when she needed him when she had time for him, this lyric is anger she wasnt there when daniel needed her just when she needed daniel. So when it suited natalie when she could fit him in she arrived!
This lyric may have been from natalies point of view, to me hes saying that natalie came to daniel when she needed him when she had time for him, this lyric is anger she wasnt there when daniel needed her just when she needed daniel. So when it suited natalie when she could fit him in she arrived!