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"
1-2-3... go!
Well all my life it's been the same
Me, I cannot afford your fear of pain
My frustration it needs release,
Cut me open and hear me breath
Playing punk keeps me sane
Don't need drugs to numb the pain
It keeps me alive
I hope it helps you
Do you think I want to let America ruin me?
No way!
I'm screaming out, somebody listen,
It feels so good to share my pain
I'm screaming out, somebody listen,
It feels so good to share my pain
Well I lost control and hurt myself
I knew deep down that I needed some help
This self abuse, it would not stop,
No matter how hard I tried
So I ran away from here
And I pulled myself together
Am I going insane? think again
I got so fed up with being unstable
No more!
I'm screaming out, somebody listen,
It feels so good to share my pain
It feels so good to share my pain
It feels so good to share my pain
It feels so good to share my pain
I'm screaming out, somebody listen,
It feels so good to share my pain
It feels so good to share my pain
It feels so good to share my pain
It feels so good to share my pain
I'm screaming out!
I'm screaming out!
I'm screaming out!
I'm screaming out!
I'm screaming out!
I'm screaming out!
I'm screaming out!
That I needed some help!
Well all my life it's been the same
Me, I cannot afford your fear of pain
My frustration it needs release,
Cut me open and hear me breath
Playing punk keeps me sane
Don't need drugs to numb the pain
It keeps me alive
I hope it helps you
Do you think I want to let America ruin me?
No way!
I'm screaming out, somebody listen,
It feels so good to share my pain
I'm screaming out, somebody listen,
It feels so good to share my pain
Well I lost control and hurt myself
I knew deep down that I needed some help
This self abuse, it would not stop,
No matter how hard I tried
So I ran away from here
And I pulled myself together
Am I going insane? think again
I got so fed up with being unstable
No more!
I'm screaming out, somebody listen,
It feels so good to share my pain
It feels so good to share my pain
It feels so good to share my pain
It feels so good to share my pain
I'm screaming out, somebody listen,
It feels so good to share my pain
It feels so good to share my pain
It feels so good to share my pain
It feels so good to share my pain
I'm screaming out!
I'm screaming out!
I'm screaming out!
I'm screaming out!
I'm screaming out!
I'm screaming out!
I'm screaming out!
That I needed some help!
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Scream Out [Previously Unreleased Track] Lyrics as written by Paloma Stoecker Rick Nowells
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hey man why you gotta insult people you think our puk forefathers would have wanted that fucking shit man??? i think not thats why punk fucking fell apart. who care if you have a 16 inch mowhak or a shaved head its not what you look like its what you fucking do. if you wannna dress up to make a statement cool if you just wanna wear a band t-shirt and jeans thats cool too. what the fuck ever happed to unity and just giving a shit about the music??
why do people fight so much about fucking music?? Im a punk kid at heart who stopped dressing lik a "street punk" because to many of todays punks are fucking nazis. to many of my "fellow" punks tried to get me to listen to wat they wantd. so i said fuck it! i am a kid who dresses however the fuck i want and ya i do listen to mix tapes that has minor threat AND some rap! isnt punk just about freedom? anyone who tries to make restrictions on a style (such as punk, or metal-head, or even scene) need to grow up. does it matter if someone has a mohawk (which i had) or a fucking average run of the mill hair cut. any TRUE punk wouldnt give a fuck! punk is about rebellion, any one who says anything else is jut a nazi. POINT IN CASE: in one song the casualties talk about killing hippies, in other they are tellin people to get off their backs? most punks are fucking hipocrites and the same could be said for anyone.
very cool song
i strongly dislike how unseen wtires their lyrics. its just cut so straight and they have no subtle meaning to them. its
Yeah during their last tour before they wrote the songs for this album, Mark was so fed up with all the shit their so called 'fans' were saying, and a bunch of other bullshit in his life, he was on the verge of a mental breakdown.
i think this song is a great fucking song... it come so close to home for alot of people... people are in pain and all there looking for is a way out or an escape that they will never be able to find... so they are screaming out for help and wether or not you answer the call is up to you... this song reminds me of a couple of my friends... and its a great tune... Warped tour 2005 first time they made it to calgary they kicked some royal ass... when they played ADD me and my friend went in the pit backwards and were not tiny either... im just so pissed that my back is still fucked (july 14) from the transplant pit... fuck i was just getting up closer so i could throw somethign at Skin head rob and TIM... there pissing me off now.
screaming out is how some ppl get free. after bottoling up everything inside. its there release.
I, and about a million other people can relate to this song. My favorite on the album.
Great song!
Yeah loads of people can relate to this song, it's amazing and yes..probably one of the best on the album. WouldItBeYou, lyrics don't have to be subtle to have meaning to them...the meaning to this song is like poke a dot said...'screaming out is how some people get free. after bottling up everything inside, it's their release' so Mark is just saying everything as it is...'I'm screaming out somebody listen' basically. No subtley needed, but still stands as a fucking brilliant song.
"i strongly dislike how unseen wtires their lyrics. its just cut so straight and they have no subtle meaning to them. its" it's what? The unseen are pretty good, and their songs stay close to older punk, which I like. And older punk NEVER had deep meanings, it's part of the genre: no bullshit, just saying straight forward what you wat to say.