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"
Only love can ease the pain
Of a boy caught in the rain
Only hope will remember
Burning flames in December
Only love
Only love...
Only faith can bring to life
One who falls by the wayside
Only trust can inspire
Soggy lungs to breathe fire
Only love
Only love...
It's only natural
The moon is just half full
We give our best away
We give our best away
Only love...
Only trust can inspire
Soggy lungs to breathe fire
Only love
Only love...
Only love
Only love...
Of a boy caught in the rain
Only hope will remember
Burning flames in December
Only love
Only love...
Only faith can bring to life
One who falls by the wayside
Only trust can inspire
Soggy lungs to breathe fire
Only love
Only love...
It's only natural
The moon is just half full
We give our best away
We give our best away
Only love...
Only trust can inspire
Soggy lungs to breathe fire
Only love
Only love...
Only love
Only love...
Lyrics submitted by weezerific:cutlery
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I think this song is just telling the story of a boy and a girl who fell in love with each other on a rainy December night. Only love can mend the pain that the boy feels, and that's what he's getting on this night.
there's a live version of this song that was recorded way before maladroit. it's so great...the way rivers sings it is beautiful.
I agree about the live version being superior. It's worth looking for, it's 3:13.
i just listened to the live version and damn, it makes me wanna go and see one of their shows...
i absolutely love this song. i'm glad rivers is putting some emotion back into his songs after the green album.
hey im thinking of getting maladroit... do you think its worth getting?
Personally, I'm a big fan of Maladroit, and I'd suggest it if you're a Weezer fan.
yes, i am a big weezer fan but there were a few songs on the Green album that i didnt like and that isnt usual. I questioned getting maladroit but i'm getting it tomorrow. this song rules tho. most of their songs do. i love rivers and i totally agree with i luv u rivers.
this song is strangly close to the week me and my gf got together it was december we walked in the rain where we kissed for the first time. Only love could ease the pain of a boy caught in the rain.
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