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"
Hanging around before we played when I saw her across the room
Yeah well, she's mighty cute, so I thought I might make my move
I saddled up beside her, to see what she's about
I introduced myself, but then, I found out that
She hates ska, she won't dance
Guess that I don't have a chance
When we play she won't stay (Oi Oi Oi)
She hates ska, she won't go
Out with me after the show
by the second song she's gone far away (oh yeah)
she said annoying horn riffs, after beats are so lame
she said the horns are so boring, all the songs sound the same
she said she wishes Aaron would die, and flipsyde and the specials too
when I heard that I almost cried, yeah, I felt so blue 'cause
She hates ska, she won't dance
Guess that I don't have a chance
When we play she won't stay (Oi Oi Oi)
She hates ska, she won't go
Out with me after the show
by the second song she's gone far away (oh yeah)
If I ever, asked her to skank
She'd probably think I called her one
Just 'cause I play, in a ska band
doesn't mean that I'm no fun (LET'S GO!)
now she's all over the guy from the metal band
hey jealousy, I've had about all I can stand
there's just one thing that I don't understand
why the hell was she wearing Vans if...
She hates ska, she won't dance
Guess that I don't have a chance
When we play she won't stay (Oi Oi Oi)
She hates ska, she won't go
Out with me after the show
by the second song she's gone far away (oh yeah)
She hates ska, and I saw her
Making out in the back
Of the metal head's car (Oi Oi Oi)
She hates ska, She hates ska
Guess she'll never throw a bra.....at me
Yeah well, she's mighty cute, so I thought I might make my move
I saddled up beside her, to see what she's about
I introduced myself, but then, I found out that
She hates ska, she won't dance
Guess that I don't have a chance
When we play she won't stay (Oi Oi Oi)
She hates ska, she won't go
Out with me after the show
by the second song she's gone far away (oh yeah)
she said annoying horn riffs, after beats are so lame
she said the horns are so boring, all the songs sound the same
she said she wishes Aaron would die, and flipsyde and the specials too
when I heard that I almost cried, yeah, I felt so blue 'cause
She hates ska, she won't dance
Guess that I don't have a chance
When we play she won't stay (Oi Oi Oi)
She hates ska, she won't go
Out with me after the show
by the second song she's gone far away (oh yeah)
If I ever, asked her to skank
She'd probably think I called her one
Just 'cause I play, in a ska band
doesn't mean that I'm no fun (LET'S GO!)
now she's all over the guy from the metal band
hey jealousy, I've had about all I can stand
there's just one thing that I don't understand
why the hell was she wearing Vans if...
She hates ska, she won't dance
Guess that I don't have a chance
When we play she won't stay (Oi Oi Oi)
She hates ska, she won't go
Out with me after the show
by the second song she's gone far away (oh yeah)
She hates ska, and I saw her
Making out in the back
Of the metal head's car (Oi Oi Oi)
She hates ska, She hates ska
Guess she'll never throw a bra.....at me
Lyrics submitted by Ken Braley
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wow! this is so cool! nuff sed!
just the lyrics are cool enough for me!
I just saw this band live last night in Madison WI, and they kick ass! After like 2 hours of punk music and the pit, i needed a break so bring on the ska!
blah, im bored so ill post this again "I SAW THEM AGAIN TONIGHT". They got flipsyde to play one last song as it was tehir second to last show :(. Great show.