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"
who i am
retort to toiletmouth
now louder answer
the firmest fist and kiss its
asked me again
how gameshow season never ends
the same old reason i won't win
suspended in this animation
i could use a new vacation
namelessly the nameless and the faceless go to make up
tell me i'm not spending too much time on happy endings
and my life does not rely on how much love you might be lending me
above there's so much i'm depending on remembering more instead
you send me door to door to have the family cat attack the stranger
back by popular demand
stand as you were
before you saw your parting gift in stores
you poured your empty heart in it but finished what you started
when you practiced and rehearsed
to find the god before he finds you first
in dirty words and poison dreams
like girls who flirt while boys are teens
you're only asking for one thing
it's never only make believe to me
tell me i'm not spending too much time on happy endings
and my life does not rely on how much love you might be lending me
above there's so much i'm depending on remembering more instead of
war with me, myself, and i
i'm headed for the stranger in the sky
resort in paradise
now louder answer
the wish and kiss is good
retort to toiletmouth
now louder answer
the firmest fist and kiss its
asked me again
how gameshow season never ends
the same old reason i won't win
suspended in this animation
i could use a new vacation
namelessly the nameless and the faceless go to make up
tell me i'm not spending too much time on happy endings
and my life does not rely on how much love you might be lending me
above there's so much i'm depending on remembering more instead
you send me door to door to have the family cat attack the stranger
back by popular demand
stand as you were
before you saw your parting gift in stores
you poured your empty heart in it but finished what you started
when you practiced and rehearsed
to find the god before he finds you first
in dirty words and poison dreams
like girls who flirt while boys are teens
you're only asking for one thing
it's never only make believe to me
tell me i'm not spending too much time on happy endings
and my life does not rely on how much love you might be lending me
above there's so much i'm depending on remembering more instead of
war with me, myself, and i
i'm headed for the stranger in the sky
resort in paradise
now louder answer
the wish and kiss is good
Lyrics submitted by _whatjusthappened
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I have NO idea what this song means... Constantly trying to figure it out though. My favorite line is "tell me i'm not spending too much time on happy endings and my life does not rely on how much love you might be lending me"
aaahhhh it's awesome
This song means so much to me. It's rather overwhelming. It's one of my favorites.
i believe its about belief in god. stranger in the sky. its about someone who believes in something, but can't quite get their fingers around it.
I always thought it was about abuse. Stranger in the sky, the victim was eventually beat to the point of death and the abuser never knew them inside and all they felt, "tell me i'm not spending too much time on happy endings and my life does not rely on how much love you might be lending me", hence, stranger in the sky.
the first time i heard this, my heart felt completely weird. like numb but in a completely good way. now everytime i get depressed and listen to this song, i dont feel anything, because its so numbing.
the other night i broke off this friendship with someone who i had wanted to be with for a long time, and i was listening to this song as i was lying in bed trying to sleep, and right when my stereo turned itself off on sleep, i started crying and i couldn't stop, because it hurt so bad.
i can relate to the "tell me im not spending too much time on happy endings, that my life does not rely on how much love you might be lending me above this, so much im depending on remembering more instead"
i do rely on how much he loves me, and i really shouldn't. but i do, and i regret that but i really dont want to change it. just as im sure jason doesnt
It reminds me of Radiohead. I love this line:to find the god before he finds you first.
The song is about suicide and what leads up to someone taking their life.
Resort in paradise.....RIP
find a god before he finds to first.
The subject does not believe he is loved, and that he is a loser at everything.
I think it's about lover's abuse (both mental and physical) leading to suicide. Hence "who i am<br /> retort to toiletmouth<br /> now louder answer<br /> the firmest fist and kiss." Meaning the person in the song tries to defend theirself when the abuser calls them names, but they just yell and hit in response and kiss later like nothing happened.<br /> "to find the god before he finds you first<br /> in dirty words and poison dreams" meaning the abuser is trying to find God before their actions catch up to them, but is going about it in the wrong way and just hurts more people.<br /> "like girls who flirt while boys are teens<br /> you're only asking for one thing<br /> it's never only make believe to me" meaning the abuser is only pretending to love the person, but really only wants one thing. The person in the song, however, doesn't see it as "only make believe".
i strongly believe this song is about suicide "find a god before he finds you first" its like he's gonna kill himself before god kills him or "war with me myself and i, im headed for the stranger in the sky" it's like the subject hates himself for some reason (the reason could be love according to other lines from this song) and he's in a constant war with himself which causes him to decide to end his life or as he says head for the stranger in the sky (god).