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"
Bloody Thursday was July 6th
The pigs killed three workers harry bridges grabbed the mic
The city shut down July 6th the workers outrage it was a general strike
The media claimed that the commies were taking over and some believed it was true
Three uncompromising strikes was paved the way
Minn Sf and Toledo
Over and over again the doors are locked
And the windows are broken
Eddie worked for general motors and he swore
That he´d never lose his job again
A union man who owned his own home
In beautiful flint Michigan
Eddie lost his job and Eddie lost his wife
So Eddie lost his self esteem
The last time I saw Eddie
He was living in the trailer park again
Over and over again the doors are locked
And the windows are broken
I believe Eddie for gave too much too soon
I got a letter from Eddie and it was bad news
Over and over again the doors are locked
And the windows are broken
The pigs killed three workers harry bridges grabbed the mic
The city shut down July 6th the workers outrage it was a general strike
The media claimed that the commies were taking over and some believed it was true
Three uncompromising strikes was paved the way
Minn Sf and Toledo
Over and over again the doors are locked
And the windows are broken
Eddie worked for general motors and he swore
That he´d never lose his job again
A union man who owned his own home
In beautiful flint Michigan
Eddie lost his job and Eddie lost his wife
So Eddie lost his self esteem
The last time I saw Eddie
He was living in the trailer park again
Over and over again the doors are locked
And the windows are broken
I believe Eddie for gave too much too soon
I got a letter from Eddie and it was bad news
Over and over again the doors are locked
And the windows are broken
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Who ist Harry Bridges?
i believe harry bridges is a fictional character
No, he's real - I dont know many details, but he was a union leader in the 30s or thereabouts, and he rallyed up the workforce (dock workers i think) and make a stand against their shitty working conditions. During one of their pickets the police opened fire into a crowd and killed three of them. Thats all I know, but its better than nothing, eh?
Harry bridges was a longshore man labour leader on the west coast. One july 5th bloddy thrusday, the long shore man were on strike. Back than it was a common thing for the police to force people bad to work when they stirked, well harry stood up and said they wouldn't go back to work. The police were on the take and the longshore mans bosses demanded imate action. The police fired into the the stirkers another common practice, and killed 3 of them. The next day harry said they were haveing a funeral for the three men and all the long shoreman were going they were gonna walk the bodies through the twon to the cemitray. The police cheaf said he would not alow it. The next day the whole city went on a general strike in support of the long shore man and the dead workers. Harry shut the city down for the furneral, and the police did nothing. The strike went on and the longshore man prevaled in the end.
Harry went on as a labour leader of the long shore man, and was later distoryed by te rumors he was a communinist.
Theres a great story story about harry and his long shore man i don't know if it is ture or even about harry now that i;m thinking of it. But one day the nazis came into port befor america was at war with them, and harry and his long shoreman said they wouldn't serve no fasiousist. Topld them to load the bouts them selves and get off their docks and never come back. He was a great man.
Other great punk songs about labour leaders, and long shore man labour leaders, is on the docks by the drop kick murphies.
This song is sooo f'n good, it's kinda laid back but tim really makes it sound like he was best friends with this guy. It makes his plight very beleivable. I do have a question though.. In the lyric's it said Harry was a union worker in Flint, MI, but PUNKED posted that he worked on docks on the west coast, where did you find your info? I was thinking about looking it up, 'cause I grew up in Flint and wanted to know if this was a true incedent. Not tryin' to disrespect you PUNKED.
whups, I ment the character Eddie.. Does anyone know if these are true stories? I tend to believe that Rancid actually write about real ppl and don't just make up stories.. like most groups do!
"Eddie" could be a friend, or he could just be one of thousands of people in that situation. I've always perceived he's speaking of the latter.
yeah, i think they're just using the semi-fictional character 'eddie' to represent one of the people in that situation.
I think this has to be the only time Flint has ever been referred to as "beautiful."