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"
Son, look at all the people in this restaurant
What do you think they weigh?
And out the window to the parking lot
At their SUV's taking all the space
They give no fuck
They talk as loud as they want
They give no fuck
Just as long as there's enough for them
Gonna get on the microphone down at Wal-Mart
Talk about some shit that's been on my mind
Talk of the state of this great nation of ours
People look to your left
Yeah, look to your right
They give no fuck
They buy as much as they want
They give no fuck
Just as long as there's enough for them
Son, look at the people lining up for plastic
Wouldn't you like to see them in the National Geographic?
Squatting bare assed in the dirt eating rice from a bowl
With a towel on their head, and maybe a bone in their nose
See that asshole with the peace sign on his license plate?
Giving me the finger and running me out of his lane
God made us number one because he loves us the best
Well he should go bless someone else for a while
Give us a rest
(They give no)
Yeah, and everyone can see
(They give no)
We've eaten all that we can eat
What do you think they weigh?
And out the window to the parking lot
At their SUV's taking all the space
They give no fuck
They talk as loud as they want
They give no fuck
Just as long as there's enough for them
Gonna get on the microphone down at Wal-Mart
Talk about some shit that's been on my mind
Talk of the state of this great nation of ours
People look to your left
Yeah, look to your right
They give no fuck
They buy as much as they want
They give no fuck
Just as long as there's enough for them
Son, look at the people lining up for plastic
Wouldn't you like to see them in the National Geographic?
Squatting bare assed in the dirt eating rice from a bowl
With a towel on their head, and maybe a bone in their nose
See that asshole with the peace sign on his license plate?
Giving me the finger and running me out of his lane
God made us number one because he loves us the best
Well he should go bless someone else for a while
Give us a rest
(They give no)
Yeah, and everyone can see
(They give no)
We've eaten all that we can eat
Lyrics submitted by rodneylove
All U Can Eat Lyrics as written by Benjamin Scott Folds Ben Folds
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i love this song and what it says because it not only says what i think, it also has reached a lot of non-American people and shared that point of view with them. not all of us are stupid americans!!!
Great song!
Great song!
This song is off his pre-release album Sunny 16.
I love this song. It hits home with me and it is basicly describing some of the "high and mighty" people in America and their habits of caring only for themselves. He's saying that they don't care about anything except themselves and what gives them pleasure.
Ben Folds owns :-)
God made us number one 'cause he loves us the best Well he should go bless someone else for a while and give us a rest thats my favorite part i love this song i heard it the first time at GBR, guster ben folds and rufus wainwright concert, and i had to go buy the recording.
At the beginning of his career, Ben said that he'd only ever write one love song, and one political song. This is the political song, and The Luckiest is the love song.
This song is great. I think it really expresses a great perspective of an American who is tired of the common American belief that "god made us number 1 cuz he loves us the best." fantastic, fantastic song.
This song is incredible. I agree whole heartedly with the message he is sending.
i like how it's called "all u can eat"...b/c it just fits the song so well
Recently, 7th of September 2006, at Sydney in his Australian Symphony tour he told us, sarcastically of course; "this song was formed from one of my earliest memories in a Dennies restaurant. Now I can see how people would consider this a political song but uhh...I don't really think it is."
By the way - if you have yet to hear him with an orchestra, buy the WASO DVD or something. I can't listen to him without an Orchestra behind him anymore.