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"
Doctor doctor!
I'm in bed
Achin' head
Gold is lead
Choke on bread
Underfed
Gold is lead
Jesus bled
Pain is red
Are goon
Grow go
Greasy spoon
You swoon
June bloom
Music seems to help the pain
Seems to cultivate the brain
Doctor kindly tell your wife that
I'm alive - flowersthrive - realize - realize
Realize
I'm in bed
Achin' head
Gold is lead
Choke on bread
Underfed
Gold is lead
Jesus bled
Pain is red
Are goon
Grow go
Greasy spoon
You swoon
June bloom
Music seems to help the pain
Seems to cultivate the brain
Doctor kindly tell your wife that
I'm alive - flowersthrive - realize - realize
Realize
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
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I've heard the Pink Floyd original, but I've never heard ATDI's rendition. I can't even fathom what it sounds like, since the original is so unlike ATDI's style. Does anyone know where I can find a copy of this?
The ATDI version is very, very weird to say the least...and it comes from an imported Invalid Litter Dept. single...the single i have has five songs (it's really like an ep)...the songs are: Invalid Little Dept., Initiation (lamacq version), quarantined (lamacq version), Take Up...(lamacq), and Metronome Arthritis. I believe Steve Lamaqc does a BBC radio show.
Just download it off Kazaa. It took me a while to find but I got it eventually. It's really strange but the basic elements of ATDI are there.
I can't seem to find this version on Kazaa K++. I've been looking forever. Hell, I can't even download the Pink Floyd version. Anyone happen to have a link to these songs? :-D
this song... is very weird, even by atdi standards. the instrumentals are amazing, but the song is fucking zany.
Im not sure how i feel about it
its so much different
if you want to hear the song go buy "this station is non-operational" its on there, its the last song.
Sounds alot like The Mars Volta to me. I've never heard the origional, but I really want too.
its cause this was the guitarist and vocalist's band before mars volta...........................
yeah but it's got a more crazy free form jam style more like The Mars Volta rather than ATDI
yeah but it's got a more crazy free form jam style more like The Mars Volta rather than ATDI