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 say man, can you help me out,
Bring back to love,
Bring me back to life,
Oh why should I care.
I said how, could you keep me out,
Without a wish to share,
So without a doubt,
Oh why should I care.
We have been warned,
Its a classic sign,
Its a wicked mind,
With an axe to grind,
Oh when is it our, our time,
Oh so why should we care,
Again,again,again.
Again,we have been warned, this a classic sign.
Why should we care.
If this is all, that summer,
Oh why should we care,
Woah if this would be our, summer
Then why should we care.
Bring back to love,
Bring me back to life,
Oh why should I care.
I said how, could you keep me out,
Without a wish to share,
So without a doubt,
Oh why should I care.
We have been warned,
Its a classic sign,
Its a wicked mind,
With an axe to grind,
Oh when is it our, our time,
Oh so why should we care,
Again,again,again.
Again,we have been warned, this a classic sign.
Why should we care.
If this is all, that summer,
Oh why should we care,
Woah if this would be our, summer
Then why should we care.
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The first time I saw the song title I thought there might be a connection. Right near the start of the song, you can hear what sounds to me like anti-aircraft fire, followed by the words 'I said man, can you help me out? Bring me back to life'. At this point the parallels with Catch-22 seem clear. However, the remaining lyrics leave me guessing somewhat.
I was interested to see on another site someone's opinion that Doves took their inspiration from the mountain Snowdon, although this is obviously spelt differently from the title. I'm convinced it might have something to to with the character Snowden from Heller's Catch-22...
Looks like this is the second single from the 'Some Cities' album. I'd say it's about apathy, with other people stating their problems or potential problems that haven't come to him yet, but he just repeats the line 'why should i/we care?'
Snowden is a character from the novel Catch 22. I haven't read it so I don't know how relevant that is, but I guess it could be useful.
I think this is about the ending of a relationship.. 'If this could be our last summer then why should we care?' And also... 'bring me back to life bring me back to love'
I'm not too sure what this is all about, but the music that plays at the parts where he's not singing (i think it's strings doin' the 'waa waa waaaaaa' thing that I'm talkin' bout) sound to me like old school Star Trek music or something that would play in an old shcool James Bond flick if he was underwater or something.
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i totally understand you deadeyeduck. It makes for an awesome song though!
I haven't finished Catch-22, but as soon as I saw the name Snowden, I was reminded of this song. It's not often you see that name, I guess. I definitely see a lot of parallels to the scene described by peardrop and the song.
"We have been warned" could be just how the men became involved in the war despite their best attempts to involve it.
I think maybe Yossarian's turnaround in attitude - his loss of courage, his selfishness and ridiculousness, stemmed from Snowden's death (but like I said I haven't finished the book) "Oh when is it our turn? Why should we care?" Might have been something of Snowden's last words that really tweaked out Yossarian and made him want to avoid his time to die at any costs.
This song is so freaking brilliant. First I thought it was "son" and not "man" but maybe I'm wrong. The kind of song you have to listen to at least a couple of times in a row. Some Cities is officially my first ever CD. And man it is brilliant.
I think that it can be directly related to Catch-22, the entire song I mean. I think that instead of this being Snowden's words, it's Yossarian's. The "Man, can you help me out? Can you bring me back to life...ect" is Yossarian's first moment of panic, where he realizes he just wants to live, and not die like Snowden. Oh, and about the warning, I think that Snowden's death IS the warning. Also, "if this should be our last summer, then why should we care?" is Yossarian's thinking towards the war. Saying why should he care about the war? and why should he die for it? It's all relevant to Snowden's death in the novel, which was such an important thing. I really think that this entire song can be directly linked to Catch-22, but only the writer knows! :D
mmmm. it's my favorite song ever.