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 think it's fair to say that I chose hopelessness...
and inflicted it on the rest of us,
but at least I've come to terms with my own mortality.
We search for different ways to make it through the wall,
resign our parents' interests will one day be our own.
We wait at ease,
We wait to see,
We are waiting here for catastrophe.
We wait at ease,
We wait to see,
We are waiting here for catastrophe.
The guy singing all the sad songs died,
Oh well I guess he was right, oh I guess he was right.
We learn together over time that tolerance is more appealing
In theory than in practice.
I identify my starsign by asking which is least compatible with yours.
We wait at ease,
We wait to see,
We are waiting here for catastrophe.
We wait at ease,
We wait to see,
We are waiting here for catastrophe.
A room full of vacuum and a room full of air look the same.
You have not been reborn they've just painted your face,
painted the walls.
Message sent to so far unreached peoples:
I think they've got it in for us,
I think they've got it in for us.
How you break the rules that you yourself imposed:
I think you've got it in for us,
I think you've got it in for yourselves.
We wait at ease,
We wait to see,
We are waiting here for catastrophe.
We wait at ease,
We wait to see,
We are waiting here for catastrophe.
A room full of vacuum and a room full of air look the same.
You have not been reborn they've just painted your face,
painted the walls.
Painted your face,
painted the walls.
Painted your face,
painted the walls.
Painted your face.
and inflicted it on the rest of us,
but at least I've come to terms with my own mortality.
We search for different ways to make it through the wall,
resign our parents' interests will one day be our own.
We wait at ease,
We wait to see,
We are waiting here for catastrophe.
We wait at ease,
We wait to see,
We are waiting here for catastrophe.
The guy singing all the sad songs died,
Oh well I guess he was right, oh I guess he was right.
We learn together over time that tolerance is more appealing
In theory than in practice.
I identify my starsign by asking which is least compatible with yours.
We wait at ease,
We wait to see,
We are waiting here for catastrophe.
We wait at ease,
We wait to see,
We are waiting here for catastrophe.
A room full of vacuum and a room full of air look the same.
You have not been reborn they've just painted your face,
painted the walls.
Message sent to so far unreached peoples:
I think they've got it in for us,
I think they've got it in for us.
How you break the rules that you yourself imposed:
I think you've got it in for us,
I think you've got it in for yourselves.
We wait at ease,
We wait to see,
We are waiting here for catastrophe.
We wait at ease,
We wait to see,
We are waiting here for catastrophe.
A room full of vacuum and a room full of air look the same.
You have not been reborn they've just painted your face,
painted the walls.
Painted your face,
painted the walls.
Painted your face,
painted the walls.
Painted your face.
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The wall is the wall of Troy.
"I think it's fair to say that I chose hopelessness... and inflicted it on the rest of us, but at least I've come to terms with my own mortality." Here Garrett is assuming the role of Achilles.
"The guy singing all the sad songs died," - This is Homer
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@insufferabilia Nice view, that's interesting!
I think the chorus is wrong.
It's not correct to say 'awaiting FOR something'. Await is a transitive verb. I think it's more likely to be, 'Ah, we are waiting here for catastrophe.'
Lyrics as they appear in the booklet:
I think it's fair to say that I chose hopelessness And inflicted it on the rest of us But at least I've come to terms with my own mortality We search for different ways To make it through the wall Resign our parents' interests Will one day be our own
We wait at ease We wait to see We are waiting here for catastrophe
The guy singing all the sad songs died Oh well, I guess he was right Oh, I guess he was right We learn together over time That tolerance is more appealing In theory than in practice I identify my star sign by asking Which is least compatible with yours
And a room full of vacuum, And a room full of air look the same You have not been reborn They've just painted your face, painted the walls
Message sent to so far unreached peoples I think they've got it in for us I think they've got it in for us How you break the rules that you yourself imposed Think you've got it in for us I think you've got it in for yourselves
You have not been reborn They've just painted your face, painted the walls
I think its just a commentary on people 'growing' up, where they claim to have changed so much and been 'reborn' but in actual fact they haven't changed much at all its just purely superficial and cosmetic.
"I identify my star sign by asking Which is least compatible with yours"
unreal line
"I identify my star sign by asking which is least compatible with yours" favourite part.
I always thought it was:
"Ah, we wait to ease Ah, we wait to see Are we awaiting here for catastrophe?"
but that's most proberbly just me!
Amazing song, though it does kind of bug me that the line is "I identify my star sign/ by asking which is least compatible with yours," and not "I identify your star sign/ by asking which is least compatible with mine"
Actually I think the song's version is more logical. To me, it relates to getting asked the old conversation line, "What's your sign?" by someone you don't care to talk to, so you'd basically answer with, "Whichever sign's least compatible with your's," putting them down.
"A room full of vacuum and a room full of air look the same," is from the comic Phonogram. The full line is, paraphrased, "... But one you can't live without and the other will make you implode."