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"
Earthbound child (x2)
Come up with the shit I'm the earthbound child (x6)
Lock onto the shit 'cause you're the earthbound child
Earthbound child (x2)
Lock onto the shit 'cause you're the earthbound child
What goes up
They say is coming down
I got my head in the sky
And my roots in the ground
I'm not patriotic man
For what it's worth
I pledge allegiance to this land
And my Mother Earth
What I am
I said is what I be
I be damned if you cut down all those trees
Clearfelling all this good land
I do see
We'll all be damned if you cut down all those trees
What I am
I said is what I am
I be damned if I stone cold kill a man
In the name of a flag
A patriotic game
You got blood on your hands it ain't me to blame
Earthbound child (x2)
Come up with the shit I'm the earthbound child
Earthbound child (x2)
Come up with the shit
Everybody crying
But they don't know why
Well don't look up now there's a hole in the sky
And if we don't change soon everybody gonna die
You better jump ship now you better hope you can fly
Over population say we gotta face
You're gonna send us all away out to outerspace
Singing yippie hurray for the human race
I don't wanna live my life in no outer space
Earthbound child (x2)
Come up with the shit I'm the earthbound child, earthbound child (x3)
Come up with the shit I'm the earthbound child
I got six white candles
You know they're too hot to handle
You know I'm lighting them up
‘Cause you know I'm a vandal
Sticking them up all around my room
‘Cause ya know what I'm into
Oh ya the voodoo
Yes I go hard
Yes I go the full mile
Yes I go hard
I'm going full with style
Yes I go hard
You know I'm wick a wild
You know what they call me I'm the earthbound child
Earthbound child (x2)
Come up with the shit I'm the earthbound child
Earthbound child (x2)
Lock onto the shit ‘cause you're the earthbound child
Earthbound child (x2)
Come up with the shit I'm the earthbound child
Earthbound child (x2)
Come up with the shit, lock onto the shit (x2)
Come up with the shit I'm the earthbound child (x6)
Lock onto the shit 'cause you're the earthbound child
Earthbound child (x2)
Lock onto the shit 'cause you're the earthbound child
What goes up
They say is coming down
I got my head in the sky
And my roots in the ground
I'm not patriotic man
For what it's worth
I pledge allegiance to this land
And my Mother Earth
What I am
I said is what I be
I be damned if you cut down all those trees
Clearfelling all this good land
I do see
We'll all be damned if you cut down all those trees
What I am
I said is what I am
I be damned if I stone cold kill a man
In the name of a flag
A patriotic game
You got blood on your hands it ain't me to blame
Earthbound child (x2)
Come up with the shit I'm the earthbound child
Earthbound child (x2)
Come up with the shit
Everybody crying
But they don't know why
Well don't look up now there's a hole in the sky
And if we don't change soon everybody gonna die
You better jump ship now you better hope you can fly
Over population say we gotta face
You're gonna send us all away out to outerspace
Singing yippie hurray for the human race
I don't wanna live my life in no outer space
Earthbound child (x2)
Come up with the shit I'm the earthbound child, earthbound child (x3)
Come up with the shit I'm the earthbound child
I got six white candles
You know they're too hot to handle
You know I'm lighting them up
‘Cause you know I'm a vandal
Sticking them up all around my room
‘Cause ya know what I'm into
Oh ya the voodoo
Yes I go hard
Yes I go the full mile
Yes I go hard
I'm going full with style
Yes I go hard
You know I'm wick a wild
You know what they call me I'm the earthbound child
Earthbound child (x2)
Come up with the shit I'm the earthbound child
Earthbound child (x2)
Lock onto the shit ‘cause you're the earthbound child
Earthbound child (x2)
Come up with the shit I'm the earthbound child
Earthbound child (x2)
Come up with the shit, lock onto the shit (x2)
Add your thoughts
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
More Featured Meanings
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Just A Little Lovin'
Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield
I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
"'Just a Little Lovin’ is a timeless country song originally recorded by Eddy Arnold in 1954. The song, written by Eddie Miller and Jimmy Campbell, explores the delicate nuances of love and showcases Arnold’s emotive vocals. It delves into the universal theme of love and how even the smallest gesture of affection can have a profound impact on our lives." https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-just-a-little-lovin-by-eddy-arnold/
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
Amazing
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
this is qoute by john explaining the song off johnbutlertrio.com/
"This songs' called earthbound child and its dedicated to friends in south west of western Australia, who have been locking on or had been locking on, to big machinery in the south west to save whats left of our heritage and whats left of our native forest, so people don't chop it down and send it away so people can wipe their arse with it. Which I always thought was a great idea to do with a 600 year old tree, to send it to another country so people can wipe their arse on it????..so this songs' dedicated to them for locking on to big machinery, risking their fingers, their arms, their legs for a cause, a belief, it pretty admirable.."
i love this song, the beggining is haunting.
Does anyone know about the voodoo part? I dont understand it.
Revenge. If they cut the streets down, he curses them.