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"
Banapple gas, oh Banapple gas
Everybody's sniffing it Banapple gas
O-o alas!
All the world is stuck on it Banapple gas.
Does it do you good, make you better
Set you healthy when you're bed-tied?
Well I don't know if it makes you well
But it must be healthy
'Cause it don't smell.
Banapple gas, oh Banapple gas
Everybody's living on Banapple gas
O-o alas!
All the world is grooving on Banapple gas.
Do you know what goes inside to make it
What kind of strange spice makes it right?
Well I don't know what kind of spice
But it must be healthy 'cause it's sterilized.
Banapple gas, Banapple gas
Give me more Banapple gas
Oh oh oh oh oh
Does it help you smile more to wake up
Make you happy just to be alive?
Well I don't know if it makes you happy
But it must be healthy
'Cause it's certified.
Banapple gas, oh Banapple gas
All the world is breathing Banapple gas
Oh oh alas!
No one knows what's inside it Banapple gas
Oh Banapple gas.
Everybody's sniffing it Banapple gas
O-o alas!
All the world is stuck on it Banapple gas.
Does it do you good, make you better
Set you healthy when you're bed-tied?
Well I don't know if it makes you well
But it must be healthy
'Cause it don't smell.
Banapple gas, oh Banapple gas
Everybody's living on Banapple gas
O-o alas!
All the world is grooving on Banapple gas.
Do you know what goes inside to make it
What kind of strange spice makes it right?
Well I don't know what kind of spice
But it must be healthy 'cause it's sterilized.
Banapple gas, Banapple gas
Give me more Banapple gas
Oh oh oh oh oh
Does it help you smile more to wake up
Make you happy just to be alive?
Well I don't know if it makes you happy
But it must be healthy
'Cause it's certified.
Banapple gas, oh Banapple gas
All the world is breathing Banapple gas
Oh oh alas!
No one knows what's inside it Banapple gas
Oh Banapple gas.
Lyrics submitted by BrainDamage
Banapple Gas Lyrics as written by Yusuf Islam
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This song sounds like it is about doing drugs. In the 60s and 70s, everyone was doing drugs without really knowing what was in them. I'm not sure if that's what it is about, but that is what it sounds like to me.
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By only uses oxygen as a drug, i meant that the only drug he uses is oxygen. I worded that one wrong.
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These lyrics have been running through my mind some and after ages of not getting this, it suddenly sprung to me while I was singing it. Forgive me if you disagree, but from "Banapple Gas" I get a picture of a guy(Cat Stevens) in the 70's who's been introduced to butt sex (Banana(penis)/Apple(apple bottom)) and now he's amusing himself in song about the morality of the act and with the words: sterilized(after bowl motion), certified(it's with a girl), gas(clearly a fart occurring during anal). . . Look I'm sorry if I'm wrong, but c'mon how can't anyone see this imagery? Maybe, I have wandered to some of the same places Cat Steven's wandered to, peace and forgive me for this interpretation, though I feel it's valid.
Sounds to me like he's making a point in general about the questionable things we put into our body -- whether its illegal drugs, sugary cereals, medication, cigarettes.. etc. Everybody's doing it, so me toooooo
Sounds to me like he's making a point in general about the questionable things we put into our body -- whether its illegal drugs, sugary cereals, medication, cigarettes.. etc. Everybody's doing it, so me toooooo