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"
Old school
Hollywood
Baseball
Old school Hollywood, Baseball
Tony Danza cuts in line
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Standing in the sun I'm wasting my time
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Jack Gilardi's ten feet tall
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Me and Frankie Avalon
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Hey man, don't you touch my belt
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Standing in the sun I'm about to melt
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Jack Gilardi's ten feet tall
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Me and Frankie Avalon
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Jack Gilardi's ten feet tall
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Me and Frankie Avalon
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Hollywood
Baseball
Old school Hollywood, Baseball
Tony Danza cuts in line
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Standing in the sun I'm wasting my time
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Jack Gilardi's ten feet tall
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Me and Frankie Avalon
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Hey man, don't you touch my belt
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Standing in the sun I'm about to melt
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Jack Gilardi's ten feet tall
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Me and Frankie Avalon
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Jack Gilardi's ten feet tall
Old school Hollywood, baseball
Me and Frankie Avalon
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
Old school Hollywood, washed up Hollywood
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I hate people that assume just because it's an SOAD song it has a deeper meaning. Daron said it's about a celebrity baseball game he went to, hence all the celebrity names, Tony Danza, Frankie Avalon. It has no deep meaning, it's simply about Old School Hollywood Baseball.
@Shattering exactly man. I even saw it on an extra off a concert DVD for the tour. He said it's based on a game he was invited to by Jack Gilardi to take part in with these other washed up celebrities. He said that tony Danza was kind of an asshole and would actually do things like cut in line. Not all System songs have some deep political or spiritual meaning or are they all social commentary pieces. People are reading into this song way too much.
I never liekd system until i herd this song!
Okay, maybe this song is about Daron's experiences, but I read into it a different way:
Old school... Hollywood... Baseball... OLD SCHOOL HOLLYWOOD BASEBALL! -from the kid who wants to get famous view, it's really all a game, going to Hollywood, getting rich... like how Baseball's a game
Tony Danza cuts in line (Old school Hollywood, Washed up Hollywood) -it must be easy and fast tog get into Hollywood (cuts in line, so he got there faster)
Standing in the sun I'm wasting my time (Old school Hollywood, Washed up Hollywood) -you're wasting your time going to Hollywood to get famous, because you'll just end up like most everyone else who goes there... working in a music store. (as Daron Malakian put it)
Old school Hollywood baseball Jack Gilardi's ten feet tall -people go to hollywood and get famous (at least that's how the media portrays it)
Old school Hollywood baseball Me and Frankie Avalon -people who go to Hollywood will be right up there with the greatest celebrities ever
Standing in the sun I'm about to melt (Old school Hollywood, Washed up Hollywood) -you'll only fall apart if you go to Hollywood, because almost no one makes it.
I have no clue what they mean by "Hey man don't you touch my belt," so I didn't include that.
Anyway, that's just one way of looking at it... the way I look at it!
Aswering the part of "Hey man don't you touch my belt"<br /> Tony Danza was a professional boxer between 1976 and 1979.<br /> <br />
Gilardi is an old school Hollywood talent agent to a bunch of has-been stars and he created the Hollywood All-Stars charity baseball game at Dodger Stadium that Daron refers to in the song. thats probably why u cant find him on google. and your right about frankie avalon. check out the movie "stoned age" they keep visiting his house.he was a teen idol that did a dance show or something.
I just watched a DVD extra on System of a Downs concert DVD for Hypnotize and Mesmerize and he says that the song is very simple. Daron was invited to a celebrity baseball game with washed up celebs hosted by Jack Gilardi. He remarked that Tony Danza was kind of an asshole who would do things like cut in line. He said he had no deeper meaning whilst writing these lyrics.
great song and great new sound for system of a down its interesting
love the synth at the start, as the above said, great new style. Think its about a sureal experience at a baseball game or something!
"Old school Hollywood baseball Jack Gelardi's ten feet tall Old school Hollywood baseball Me and Frankie Avalon"
Jack Gelardi turns up NOTHING on google or wikipedia, but Frankie Avalon was a "teen idol" in the 50's as well as a film actor and singer.
Now, what the hell does that have to do with this song?
heres the link to the info foundrymusic.com/bands/displayheadline.cfm/id/3258/div/bands/headline/DARON_MALAKIAN_BRINGS_A_HARDER_EDGE_TO_DODGER_STADIUM.html
i rippped this off worstfilms1 on the sonymusic forum
the lyrics are pretty straightforward and short (like radio/video) but I still don't understand what it means.