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"
I bet you fall in bed too easily
With the beautiful girls who are shyly brave
And you sell yourself as a man to save
But all the money in the world is not enough
I bet you've long since passed understanding
What it takes to be satisfied
You're like a vine that keeps climbing higher
But all the money in the world is not enough
And all the bridges blown away keep floating up
Its cold
And rough
And I kept standing 6'1"
Instead of 5'2"
And I loved my life
And I hated you
Its cold, out there
And rough
And I kept standing 6'1"
Instead of 5'2"
And I loved my life
And I hated you
With the beautiful girls who are shyly brave
And you sell yourself as a man to save
But all the money in the world is not enough
I bet you've long since passed understanding
What it takes to be satisfied
You're like a vine that keeps climbing higher
But all the money in the world is not enough
And all the bridges blown away keep floating up
Its cold
And rough
And I kept standing 6'1"
Instead of 5'2"
And I loved my life
And I hated you
Its cold, out there
And rough
And I kept standing 6'1"
Instead of 5'2"
And I loved my life
And I hated you
Lyrics submitted by ruben
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i love this song!!!! i heard from a friend of mine that before Liz got into the music business, everyone was telling her she was too tall. how screwed up is that???
she's 5'2". the song is not really about that. in exile in guyville, she writes a lot of songs about fucked up men and fucked up relationships. this song is about a situation where in she has this guy who thinks he's all that, so tall and wonderful but she knows more than that. so she reduces him, dissects him for who he is.
alright alright i'm wrong. good song though. i heard that from a friend but yours makes more sense. i saw her in concert, too, and she wasn't very tall. she was like 1 inch taller than me.
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hahah this is mad-feminist. I love it. It's about these guys who treat women like playthings, and put them in low chauvinistic places. But there Liz Phair is, standing 6'1" because she's standing up like a man, or in a man's place, instead of settling for who and what she's expected to be just because she's female... 5'2"
Do you think it's because he was 6'1"? She was trying to reach up to him. I love the lines "And I loved my life / And I hated you."
Also, how good is the line "the beautiful girls who are shyly brave"??
Also I agree what everyone has said - she's reducing him, swapping the roles around. This guy's a player, and he sells himself 'as a man to save' - pretends he's all sensitive with issues and needs to be looked after, but really he's just someone that uses that act to get attention from women and eventually he fucks them over.