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"
P-ig, oh, p-ig
Why don't you sing me that
Pretty lullaby
Then when you're singing great
Pack it all up
I want to new face right now
And I want it bad
I want to new body that's strong
I'm a butchered cow
I want to try and fly
I want to try and die
I want to be a pig
I want to fuck a car
I want to new face right now
And I want it bad
I want to new body that's strong
I'm a butchered cow
I want to be a stupid and shallow mutherfucker now
I want to be a tough skinned bitch but I don't know how
I want to be a shiny new baby with a spongy brain
I want to be a horse full of fire what will never reign
Why don't you sing me that
Pretty lullaby
Then when you're singing great
Pack it all up
I want to new face right now
And I want it bad
I want to new body that's strong
I'm a butchered cow
I want to try and fly
I want to try and die
I want to be a pig
I want to fuck a car
I want to new face right now
And I want it bad
I want to new body that's strong
I'm a butchered cow
I want to be a stupid and shallow mutherfucker now
I want to be a tough skinned bitch but I don't know how
I want to be a shiny new baby with a spongy brain
I want to be a horse full of fire what will never reign
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I'm pretty sure the last line is "I wanna be a horse full of fire that'll never tame." Then again, I could be wrong. Love this song. Sparklehorse fuckin rocks.
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yeah, the last line is wrong.
I love this song. when I was addicted to heroin I smoked way too much speed once and had a minor stroke and couldn't use my right leg for almost a month. it was extremely painful and I was really mad at my stupid self and my stupid fucked up body that didn't let me do anything. this song reminds me of that RIP mark linkous.
i'm pretty sure this ones about his stint in rehab and how much it drove him crazy.
i just thought it was a comment on how dependent on material things the world has become. Examples:
"I wanna new face right now and I want it bad I wanna new body that's strong I'm a butchered cow "
(plastic surgery)
It's about wanting to become new and reborn again.
I wanna try and fly I wanna try and die I wanna be a pig I wanna fuck a car
All the things he would do if he had a fresh soul.
Amazing song.
LOL The most crazy but good song that I've ever heard