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"
You're only twenty-nine
Got a lot to learn
But when your mummy dies
She will not return
We like noise it's our choice
It's what we want to do
We don't care about long hair
I don't wear flares
See my face not a trace
No reality
Oh I don't work, I just speed
That's all I need
I'm a lazy sod
I'm a lazy sod
I'm a lazy sod
I'm so lazy
I'm a lazy sod
I'm a lazy sod
I'm a lazy sod
I'm so lazy
I can't even be bothered
Lazy, lazy
Got a lot to learn
But when your mummy dies
She will not return
We like noise it's our choice
It's what we want to do
We don't care about long hair
I don't wear flares
See my face not a trace
No reality
Oh I don't work, I just speed
That's all I need
I'm a lazy sod
I'm a lazy sod
I'm a lazy sod
I'm so lazy
I'm a lazy sod
I'm a lazy sod
I'm a lazy sod
I'm so lazy
I can't even be bothered
Lazy, lazy
Lyrics submitted by spunkykitten, edited by Terrymac
Seventeen Lyrics as written by Paul Thomas Cook Glen Matlock
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this song is anti-hippie. you are "just" 29 years old and you are still living your mommy and daddy. Get out of the house, do something with your life although you may think sometimes there's no future but give it your best shot.
I'm about to 29...depressing. I remember when I was 17, it was when I was first really into this song! <br /> <br /> Have you heard the demo vers. of this they recorded with Glen Matlock, from the pre-Bollocks-session called "Spunk" as a bootleg? I noticed that the "...And we don't wear flares" lyric is actually quite intelligible, as opposed to the version on the album, where I swear that is not what he's saying. I've never been able to tell what anything sensible out of Bollox version of that line - sounds like "I don't wear MAR-TEZ!"
According to legend it was written about Sid Vicious. That would explain that "I'm a lazy Sid" is sung at some part.
John said it is about being seventeen and seeing there is no future without even caring about it
johnny rotten says, this song is about being young and having nothing to do, the stage every teenager goes through
We like noise, it's our choice! I love this verse. But I think lyrics "I'm a lazy Sid" are just a word game. Don't know for sure, though.
this song is so underrated - its good
Great stuff not very pro hippy hair we don't care about long hair. The Sex Pisotls say they hated hippy's. I love the version when he shouts "I can't even make porridge during the I'm a lazy sod etc. So great I sometimes say that for kicks.
It's not "I can't even make porridge"!! lol <br /> The real lyrics are right there - "I can't even be bothered!"<br /> Actually, it's funny because I used to think it was "I can't even make my bed!!"<br /> So, no offense intended, it's not always easy to understand all of Johnny's words, great though they may be. <br /> Also, I don't know if this is worth "sub-mission" to the site as a correction, but I'm almost %100 sure that they say "I'm a lazy 'SID'" instead of "sod" at least once - I believe it's when they come back into the 2nd and final chorus, the 2nd time they repeat the refrain. "I'm a lazy sod....I'm a lazy SID...I'm a lazy sod - I'm so lazy, I can't even be bothered..." etc. Anyone else hear that/can provide any evidence to prove those are correct lyrics?
Yeah, it definitely sounds like "I'm a lazy Sid" where the 5th "sod" should be....<br />
I think Sid just wanted attention. Like always... Great song tough, I can listen to it for ages. :D
I thought I also heard at one point "I'm a lazy Sid"...yah....weird! LOL. It's probably about someone that thinks they have it all until they end up losing everything because they ruined it and didn't show a sign of caring.
this song is anti-hippie. you are "just" 29 years old and you are still living your mommy and daddy. Get out of the house, do something with your life although you may think sometimes there's no future but give it your best shot.