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"
Ain't it fun
When you're always on the run
Ain't it fun
When your friends despise what you've become
Ain't it fun
When you get so high that you, well you just can't cum
Ain't it fun
When you know that you're gonna die young?
It's such fun
Yeah fun
Such fun
Such fun, fun, fun
Yeah fun
Such fun
Such fun, fun, fun
Yeah fun
Such fun
Such
Ain't it fun
When you're taking care of number one
Ain't it fun
When you feel like you just gotta get a gun
Ain't it fun
When you just, just can't seem to find your toungue
'Cause you stuck it too deep into somethin that really stung
It's such fun
Well, you come up to me
They spit right in my face
I didn't even feel it
It was such a disgrace
I punched my fist right through the glass
I didn't even feel it
It happened so fast
Ain't it fun
When you tell her she's just a cunt
Ain't it fun
When she splits and leaves you all alone
Ain't it fun
When you've broken up every band that you've ever begun
Ain't it fun
When you know that you're gonna die young
It's such fun
When you're always on the run
Ain't it fun
When your friends despise what you've become
Ain't it fun
When you get so high that you, well you just can't cum
Ain't it fun
When you know that you're gonna die young?
It's such fun
Yeah fun
Such fun
Such fun, fun, fun
Yeah fun
Such fun
Such fun, fun, fun
Yeah fun
Such fun
Such
Ain't it fun
When you're taking care of number one
Ain't it fun
When you feel like you just gotta get a gun
Ain't it fun
When you just, just can't seem to find your toungue
'Cause you stuck it too deep into somethin that really stung
It's such fun
Well, you come up to me
They spit right in my face
I didn't even feel it
It was such a disgrace
I punched my fist right through the glass
I didn't even feel it
It happened so fast
Ain't it fun
When you tell her she's just a cunt
Ain't it fun
When she splits and leaves you all alone
Ain't it fun
When you've broken up every band that you've ever begun
Ain't it fun
When you know that you're gonna die young
It's such fun
Lyrics submitted by smurfjkeller
Ain't It Fun Lyrics as written by Peter Laughner Eugene Richard O'connor
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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i hate guns n roses version, whats the point in covering a song if all your going to do is polish it up? if your going to cover a song surley you should do something original with it (i.e. jeff buckley - hallelujah, johnny cash - hurt). Dead Boys version is way better, its raw and from the heart. This is an amazing song, one of my favs.
one of the best punk songs ever
yeah its a rad fuckin song.
No deep meaning here, just a great ironic song about shit that happens. This may be one of my favorite songs of all-time, and it's certainly the best one the Dead Boys ever did. It almost sounds like a Stooges song that the Stooges never actually recorded.
this is my favorite song. its a rawer look at the sex drugs and punk life style. going under the veneer and into the soft udnerbelly. I love it , its my anthem
guns n roses covered this song...
that's a terrible thing to say
Just a song about many things that happen that can be pretty shitty, such as realizing u friends despise u, that u'r so low that u can't even find ur tongue which is pretty bad actually, and ultimately, realizing u'r gonna die young cuz the life u'r living can only take u to that.
and the most important thing i have to say, this song rocks, absolutely. but GN'R cover of it is WAAAAY better than the original version. Dead boys' original is amazing right, but u can't compete with anything played by guns n roses right? ;>
How can you get better than the original if the original is 100% how something is meant to be. You may like other versions more, but they are not better.
This song also appears on a live album of Rocket From the Tombs (two Dead Boys' members came from that band). One of the best punk song ever!