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"
God save the sex pistols they're a bunch of wholesome blokes
They just like wearing filthy clothes and swapping filthy jokes
God save television keep the programms pure
God save William Grundy from falling in manure
Ronnie Biggs was doing time until he done a bunk
Now he says he's seen the light and he sold his soul to punk
God save Martin Boorman and nazis on the run
They wasn't being wicked God that was their idea of fun
God save Myra Hindley God save Ian Brady
Even though he's horrible and she ain't what you call a lady
Ronnie Biggs was doing time until he done a bunk
Now he says he's seen the light and he sold his soul to punk
Ronnie Biggs was doing time until he done a bunk
Now he says he's seen the light and he sold his soul to punk
God save politicians God save our friends the pigs
God save Idi Amin and god save Ronald Biggs
God save all us sinners God save your blackest sheep
God save the good samaritan and god save the worthless creep
Ronnie Biggs was doing time until he done a bunk
Now he says he's seen the light and he sold his soul to punk
Ronnie Biggs was doing time until he done a bunk
Now he says he's seen the light and he sold his soul to punk
Sold his soul Sold his soul Sold his soul to punk
They just like wearing filthy clothes and swapping filthy jokes
God save television keep the programms pure
God save William Grundy from falling in manure
Ronnie Biggs was doing time until he done a bunk
Now he says he's seen the light and he sold his soul to punk
God save Martin Boorman and nazis on the run
They wasn't being wicked God that was their idea of fun
God save Myra Hindley God save Ian Brady
Even though he's horrible and she ain't what you call a lady
Ronnie Biggs was doing time until he done a bunk
Now he says he's seen the light and he sold his soul to punk
Ronnie Biggs was doing time until he done a bunk
Now he says he's seen the light and he sold his soul to punk
God save politicians God save our friends the pigs
God save Idi Amin and god save Ronald Biggs
God save all us sinners God save your blackest sheep
God save the good samaritan and god save the worthless creep
Ronnie Biggs was doing time until he done a bunk
Now he says he's seen the light and he sold his soul to punk
Ronnie Biggs was doing time until he done a bunk
Now he says he's seen the light and he sold his soul to punk
Sold his soul Sold his soul Sold his soul to punk
Lyrics submitted by spunkykitten, edited by millerman
No One Is Innocent Lyrics as written by Ronald Briggs Paul Cook
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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I think this is a sarcastic take-off on the 'God save the Queen' phrase, basically adding 'god save' before the names of several [nasty] people. William Grundy = sleazy brit TV host who Johnny and Steve swore at on TV Ronnie Biggs = The only participant in the Great Train Robbery in the 1960's to get away with the cash, settled in Brazil [where the Brits couldn't touch him] and sang vocals on this song! Martin Boorman = Nazi who gave order to exterminate the Jews Myra Hindley and Ian Brady = the moores murderers. A couple, who were serial killers. Politicians and Pigs [cops] = let's face it, they beloing on a list with nazis and killers... Idi Armin = Ugandan military leader who excecuted most of his army and expelled most of the non-black population [ie, like a black ethnic cleansing][don't know a lot about him, just googled it]
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i love the pistols but i always skip this song, i don't like the guy who sings
I think it's a crap song. Steve and Paul buggered off to Brazil to record it with Ronnie Biggs. Why should Ronnie Biggs be patronised when he took part in a train robbery that left the driver brain-dead. It's sick.
you realise by sayin this whatername1251 that this makes the sex pistols even better this song even better theyre unstoppable even though theyre split the legend an effects of the pistols shall live ferever in hitor-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
I think you need to get some lessons in English Mycrustyscabs.
William Grundy got drunk before interviewing the sex pistols and came on to singer from Siouxie and the Banshees.
this song is the perfect piss take ;]