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"
I confess
Everyone is overweight
And I'm obsessed
Talking is just masturbating
Without the mess
Addiction leaves you sad today and unimpressed
I can't remember all the names
Everyone you meet today
Is just so fucking vain
Bored again by happiness
And all those friends, I've lost in there
I'm upset
Happiness is not a fish
That you can catch
Imagination can't resist
The laziness
That pins you down, get on your knees
Everyone you meet
Is feeling useless and ashamed
Bored again by happiness
And all those friends I've lost in, oh oh oh
Everyone you meet
Is feeling useless and ashamed
Bored again by happiness
And all those friends I've lost in there
But I want to remember
But I want to forget this
But I won't forget for long
But I want to remember
But I want to forget this
But I only forget for long
And lost in this
Everyone is overweight
And I'm obsessed
Talking is just masturbating
Without the mess
Addiction leaves you sad today and unimpressed
I can't remember all the names
Everyone you meet today
Is just so fucking vain
Bored again by happiness
And all those friends, I've lost in there
I'm upset
Happiness is not a fish
That you can catch
Imagination can't resist
The laziness
That pins you down, get on your knees
Everyone you meet
Is feeling useless and ashamed
Bored again by happiness
And all those friends I've lost in, oh oh oh
Everyone you meet
Is feeling useless and ashamed
Bored again by happiness
And all those friends I've lost in there
But I want to remember
But I want to forget this
But I won't forget for long
But I want to remember
But I want to forget this
But I only forget for long
And lost in this
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this song is about how boring it can be to be happy all the time. if you are always happy, you begin to take it for granted, and thus the happiness becomes worthless. and so, as the band once commented, if you don't get depressed sometimes, you won't ever know how truly great life can be. at the same time, if you just let go of happiness because you're bored with it, it's incredibly difficult to just get back. and so there's the paradox, the catch-22 if you must. happiness can be bad if you have it non-stop, but if you let it go, it's really hard to get back.
at least, that's what i got from this song.
to me the song comes from him saying that hes not happy but that everyone who is happy or rather that should be isnt happy either and that their "bored by happiness" and hes tellin them "happiness is not a fish that you can catch" its not somthing you can grab out of thin air.... happiness is not an object of possesion
Talking is just masturbating Without the mess.... ...I can't remember all the names Everyone you meet today Is just so fucking vain
To me, the lines above say people speak just to please themselves, they tell other people about themselves, complain about their problems. But they could careless about what someone else has to say. Most conversations are artifical/pointless. The rest of the song, I think is pretty much what others have said.
i love this song. i think the line "talking is just masturbating without the mess" is the main meaning. they are saying that the mindless happiness of getting a new car, watching a really cool big-screen TV, or talking mindlessly with your friends is the same shallow meaningless pleasure as masturbating. Maida is tired of this false happiness and desparately looking for something more fulfilling.
olp is another group of amazing people who create phenomenal works of art!!! too bad Mike left, but im sure the band will continue to excell anyway!
It seems to me that he's bored with his social life and how he's always happy, he wants something else. The feelings seem to switch from being happy to being sad and the feelings are presented in the song that it's boring. Or maybe it's about being bored with false friends.
I think this song is about happiness and perfection is not the thing to strive for in life. Its good to be happy, but if you are always happy, then you become bored with it and not take it as the gist it actually is.
try2findanywhere and hobart, I don't think I could agree anymore! those are awesome ways of looking of it, i never even thought about the "talking is just masterbating without the mess" part, that makes complete sense.
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i think it's like you cant just expect to be happy, you have to work at it
happiness...............for me simple things make me happy but this song for me is like a hope for being happy. Well i don't know' I supposed Raine is happy now... well he should!