Lyrics for Back To The Old House as interpreted by YtseJam

Back To The Old House Lyrics
I would rather not go
back to the old house
I would rather not go
back to the old house
there's too many
bad memories
too many memories

When you cycled by
here began all my dreams
the saddest thing I've ever seen
and you never knew
how much I really liked you
because I never even told you
oh, but I meant to

Are you still there?
or have you moved away?
or have you moved away?

I would love to go
back to the old house
but I never will
I never will
I never will
I never will

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KILBY
03-05-2003

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Having mixed feelings about your past, whether you want to revisit them or not. and thinking about someone you had feelings for and wishing you would have told them and if that person still lives there or moved away. A very sad song.

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SouthHibbing
06-11-2003

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i just got thsi song. so sad. yeah your right on the meaning.

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tallulat
12-27-2004

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Yes you are very much right in my opinion too such a beautiful song and heatbreakingly sad - I always cry

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Airyca
12-30-2004

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I like the acoustic version on "Hatful of Hollow" so much more than the one on "Louder Than Bombs". But both are gorgeous.

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Chilly
03-02-2005

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a truly beautiful song
4 comments? bah deserves much more

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_zizzle
03-23-2005

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This song is so lovely.

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xpsychicheartsx
06-02-2005

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it's about holding a strong connection to one person..

..in the start of the song he states that he obviously does not want to revisit the place of bad past memories..

..then he gets into the thought of this one person, making it seem like he/she was the only comfort he really had over there.. and this thought of them is strong enough to actually make him want to go back just to see if they're still there..

..but inside he knows he could never conjure up the strength to actually do it.. althought he would want to, just for this one person

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Boss Man
07-16-2005

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I heard the acoustic version from hoh first and it's spoiled the electric one for me really.

Hey, you guys from the 'this charming man' page! There's a bicycle on this one as well!

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JohnnyMarr
11-11-2005

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Boss Man you cant be serious...the version on Hatful of Hollow is so touching and delicate. Johnny and morrissey both admitted that the electric version of this song that can be found on Louder than Bombs was an abhorration of the beautiful acousitc one

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1imaginarygirl
12-20-2005

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i love this song because it's lyrics are clever but so simple at the same time. but as practically everyone has said before, the acoustic one is so much better

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VicarInATutu
12-23-2005

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I like the Hatful of Hollow version much better.

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VicarInATutu
12-23-2005

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I like the Hatful of Hollow version much better.

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youlooksogoodinblue
04-02-2006

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Agreed. This is a fantastic song either way though, the lyrics are absolutely wonderful

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ZeroNumber
06-22-2006

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I've had to move away from a lot of places, and similarly leave a lot of people I care deeply for. The strongest example of this is between Texas, where I live, and Ohio, where I go to school. I tried having a long distance relationship with someone in Texas but it wound up going under. But all my memories of Texas include her. Now I'm back for the summer and all my old haunts have her laughter lingering in the back of my head and I know it's only going to get worse.

That's what the song means to me. Holding back wells of tears because life threw you a one-two punch by taking something away and then taunting you with it.

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dog-eared-page
11-24-2006

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this just might be my favorite smiths song. very very sad, the hatful of hollow version is pure beauty.

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jonnyward
06-04-2007

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Hoh version really is the best one by far... accoustically its actaully one of the bets Smiths songs, none are quite so sad yet beutiful cos they generally arent as simple

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humanOrnaments
07-02-2007

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I like this version better than the Hatful of Hollow version.


Great song

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Foreverdelayed
12-10-2007

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This is literally the saddest song i've ever heard.

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AladdinInsane
03-17-2008

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R E G R E T.
i dont think i should feel so much at 16...

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tonester34
04-02-2008

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I know that many Smith tunes are melancholic or whatever but this one is just too much. There are no uplifting guitar parts to make it bearable either. The whole thing is sad...to be reserved for sad break-ups, death and other serious issues.

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smothermemother
10-11-2008

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this song in sense can be very sad, yes.

but really, i have never ever thought a smiths song was sad. beautiful yes. but never sad or depressing. just morbidly humorous.

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Loves_young_dream
11-28-2008

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ive been to the house of the boy i once loved, and il never go back again. its a shame but i dream about him from time to time. but il never go back to the old house

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timothyreal
02-01-2009

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I don't understand how anyone could prefer the HoH version. It's nice and all, but the LTB version has a doo-wop feel that better suits the subject of the song. It sounds like something a teenager would listen to while driving a chrome Cadillac up to make-out point.

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