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i'm working on my backwards walk
walking with no shoes or socks
and the time rewinds to the end of may
i wish we'd never met then met today
i'm working on my faults and cracks
filling in the blanks and gaps
and when i write them out they don't make sense
i need you to pencil in the rest
i'm working on drawing a straight line
and i'll draw until i get one right
it's bold and dark girl, can't you see
i done drawn a line between you and me
i'm working on erasing you
just don't have the proper tools
i get hammered, forget that you exist
there's no way i'm forgetting this
i'm working hard on walking out
shoes keep sticking to the ground
my clothes won't let me close the door
these trousers seem to love your floor
i been working on my backwards walk
there's nowhere else for me to go
except back to you just one last time
say yes before i change my mind
say yes before i...
you're the shit and i'm knee-deep in it
walking with no shoes or socks
and the time rewinds to the end of may
i wish we'd never met then met today
i'm working on my faults and cracks
filling in the blanks and gaps
and when i write them out they don't make sense
i need you to pencil in the rest
i'm working on drawing a straight line
and i'll draw until i get one right
it's bold and dark girl, can't you see
i done drawn a line between you and me
i'm working on erasing you
just don't have the proper tools
i get hammered, forget that you exist
there's no way i'm forgetting this
i'm working hard on walking out
shoes keep sticking to the ground
my clothes won't let me close the door
these trousers seem to love your floor
i been working on my backwards walk
there's nowhere else for me to go
except back to you just one last time
say yes before i change my mind
say yes before i...
you're the shit and i'm knee-deep in it
Lyrics submitted by calvins_hobbies
Track duration: 03:30
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This song just speaks to me.
I definitely agree with Bayley though, the trousers on the floor, were, to me, a allusion to sex and passion.
just don't have the proper tools
i get hammered, forget that you exist
there's no way i'm forgetting this"
It's crazy how much I can relate to this part. To me, it seems like he wants to forget someone but he can't bring himself to do it, like he doesn't "have the proper tools" to do so. So he turns to drinking to try to solve the problem, but he knows that won't work.
"i wish we'd never met that MAN today"!
Its clearly saying she cheated on him and he wants to go back in time
to before that happened,that would make things all good again right?
Every song on the album has an underlying theme of cheating,
as his girl cheated on him before he wrote the album.
Heres an ironic point...
In the second song on the album called "i feel better"
he says "this the last song i write about you"
Ironically there are 12 more songs after this one lol,
i know this dont relate to this song i jus thought it was funny.
I thought I deciphered this sentence and when 'the penny dropped' I almost cried.
It might sound convoluted or maybe I'm trying to stretch it to what I want to see, but I thought it was a great concept.
and the time rewinds to the end of (me)
i wish we'd never met that man today
This is what I hear, but it would only make sense if it was fastforward, but nonetheless - I like the concept so I'll push onward.
He rewinds to the end of me... which originally is the idea of him and his girl lasting forever, which is now just realised and concreted today, to be him by himself, either alone or not with his love... He wishes he'd never met the new idea of his future self that is without her today.
I thought it was a good thought - hurtful but good. I wish it were, but when I listen to it again, it defiantly says "may", not "me". Wishful thinking I guess.