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"
Fujiya, Miyagi x26
As I pretty
As of the band
Lowercase letter S
Spray painted red
It's spray painted red
Yeah, your little arms
Swing on monkey bars
In search of your plot
Like pixelated scraps of jazz mags in your head
Lights
Like pixelated scraps of jazz mags in your head
Lights, a career
Littered with ankle injuries
In the mid to late 1980s
As you're pretty
As of the band
Lowercase letter S
Like pixelated scraps of jazz mags in your head
Lights
Like pixelated scraps of jazz mags in your head
Watching
Unleashing begins
Next to zen, road crossings
My ancient old legs stick to leather and
Seed coverings
Watching
Unleashing begins
Through transparent things
Like pixelated scraps of jazz mags in your head
Lights
Like pixelated scraps of jazz mags in your head
Lights
Fujiya, Miyagi x34
Like pixelated scraps of jazz mags in your head
Lights
As I pretty
As of the band
Lowercase letter S
Spray painted red
It's spray painted red
Yeah, your little arms
Swing on monkey bars
In search of your plot
Like pixelated scraps of jazz mags in your head
Lights
Like pixelated scraps of jazz mags in your head
Lights, a career
Littered with ankle injuries
In the mid to late 1980s
As you're pretty
As of the band
Lowercase letter S
Like pixelated scraps of jazz mags in your head
Lights
Like pixelated scraps of jazz mags in your head
Watching
Unleashing begins
Next to zen, road crossings
My ancient old legs stick to leather and
Seed coverings
Watching
Unleashing begins
Through transparent things
Like pixelated scraps of jazz mags in your head
Lights
Like pixelated scraps of jazz mags in your head
Lights
Fujiya, Miyagi x34
Like pixelated scraps of jazz mags in your head
Lights
Lyrics submitted by jjjonatron
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It's also 'Zebra Crossings', not 'Zap Road Crossings' or anything else. This also means that 'unleashing begins' becomes 'Belisha beacons', which are the names of the lollipop things that are on the front cover of the album and stand on the edge of zebra crossings. So
'Watching Belisha beacons Next to zebra crossings My ancient old legs stick to leatherette seat coverings Watching Belisha beacons Through transparent things Like pixellated scraps of jazz mags in your head Lights'
More corrections:<br /> <br /> 2nd verse:<br /> 'A career<br /> Littered with ankle injuries<br /> In the mid-to-late 1980s'
I do not know what this song means. But it's really good.
Those lyrics are a little bit wrong, though i cant blame anyone for getting them wrong:
Fujiya, Miyagi x26
As I pretty As of the band Lowercase letter S Spray painted red It's spray painted red Yeah, your little arms Swing on monkey bars In search of your plot Like pixelated scraps of chess mats in your head Lights
Like pixelated scraps of chess mats in your head Lights, a career Littered with, ankle injuries In the mid to late 1980s As you're pretty As of the band Lowercase letter S Like pixelated scraps of chess mats in your head Lights
Like pixelated scraps of chess mats in your head Watching Unleashing begins Next to zen, road crossings My ancient old legs, stick to leather and Seat coverings Watching Unleashing begins Through transparent things Like pixelated scraps of chess mats in your head Lights
Like pixelated scraps of chess mats in your head Lights
Fujiya, Miyagi x34
Like pixelated scraps of chess mats in your head Lights
It may well be that im wrong about the chess mat bit, but having watched the video and listened over and over again, i believe its the layering of the several vocals that produces that "x" sound...also what the hell is jazz maxx?
haha, i have no idea what a jazz max is. i figured with fujiya & miyagi it didn't really matter!
i think the lyrics is this way:
Fujiya, Miyagi x26
As a pretty As of the bed Lowercase letter S Spray painted red It's spray painted red Yeah, your little arms Swing on monkey bars In such other plots Like pixelated scraps of chess mags in your head Lights
Like pixelated scraps of chess mags in your head Lights, a career Littered to roof, ankle injuries In the mid to late 1980s As a pretty As of the bed Lowercase letter S Like pixelated scraps of chess mags in your head Lights
Like pixelated scraps of chess mags in your head Watching Unleashing begins Next to Zap, road crossings My ancient old legs, stick to leather and Seat coverings Watching Unleashing begins Through transparent things Like pixelated scraps of chess mags in your head Lights
Like pixelated scraps of chess mags in your head Lights
Fujiya, Miyagi x34
Like pixelated scraps of chess mags in your head Lights
HA! For the longest time I thought they were singing "like pixelated Chex Mix in your head". Gave me the munchies!
It sounds like "pixelated scraps of jazz mags..." to me. "Jazz mag" being a euphemism for porno mag.
Bardfly is correct. 'jazz mag' is British slang for a pornographic magazine. The song is a cryptic story about finding a porno mag as a school kid
This guy is absolutely correct. tirk-recordings.com/tirk017.php I was hoping for something different, got all up in arms over nothing. In defending this song I found on YouTube once, I have made an ass of myself. Go me.<br /> <br /> Anyway, this is kind of disappointing and discouraging. Does anyone know any really interesting songs by this band? Can't judge a book by its cover, but my assumptions lead me to believe that the first chapter is usually pretty good indication.
this song makes time pass by pretty easily, which is why i like it
Why do they say the name of the band so many times at the beginning of the song? It's not connected to the rest of the lyrics. Are they just trying to make sure we know how to pronounce it? Do they introduce all their songs by saying their band name again and again? Can you imagine a Radiohead song staring out with them saying "Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead..." again and again?