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"
Happy life with the machines scattered around the room.
Look what they made; they made it for me.
Happy technology.
Outside the lions run, feeding on remains.
We'll never leave, look at us now;
So in love with the way we are here.
The world that the children made.
The world that the children made here.
The world that the children made here.
The world that the children made.
Every night they rock us to sleep;
Digital family.
Is it real, or is it a dream?
Can you believe in machines?
Outside, the bleeding sun.
Can you hear the screams?
We'll never leave, look at us now;
So in love with the way we are here.
The world that the children made.
The world that the children made here.
The world that the children made here.
The world that the children made.
Here.
The world that the children made here.
The world that the children made.
Happy life with the machines scattered around the room.
Look what they made; they made it for me.
Happy technology.
Outside the lions run, feeding on remains.
We'll never leave, look at us now;
So in love with the way we are here.
The world that the children made.
The world that the children made here.
The world that the children made here.
The world that the children made.
Here.
The world that the children made here.
The world that the children made.
Look what they made; they made it for me.
Happy technology.
Outside the lions run, feeding on remains.
We'll never leave, look at us now;
So in love with the way we are here.
The world that the children made.
The world that the children made here.
The world that the children made here.
The world that the children made.
Every night they rock us to sleep;
Digital family.
Is it real, or is it a dream?
Can you believe in machines?
Outside, the bleeding sun.
Can you hear the screams?
We'll never leave, look at us now;
So in love with the way we are here.
The world that the children made.
The world that the children made here.
The world that the children made here.
The world that the children made.
Here.
The world that the children made here.
The world that the children made.
Happy life with the machines scattered around the room.
Look what they made; they made it for me.
Happy technology.
Outside the lions run, feeding on remains.
We'll never leave, look at us now;
So in love with the way we are here.
The world that the children made.
The world that the children made here.
The world that the children made here.
The world that the children made.
Here.
The world that the children made here.
The world that the children made.
Lyrics submitted by primavista
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Based on the short story "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury Wikipedia summary - A family lives in a house with the latest technology. It is called the “Happylife Home” and its installation cost $30,000. The house is filled with machines that do everything for them from cooking meals, to clothing them, to rocking them to sleep. The two children, Peter and Wendy, become fascinated with the "nursery," a virtual reality room that is able to connect with the children telepathically to reproduce any place they imagine.
The parents, George and Lydia, soon realize that there is something wrong with their way of life. George and Lydia are also perplexed that the nursery is stuck on an African setting, with lions in the distance, eating the dead carcass of what they assume to be an animal. There they also find recreations of their personal belongings. Wondering why their children are so concerned with this scene of death, they decide to call a psychologist.
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The kids realized that the only way they could stay in their nursery is to get rid of their parents by locking George and Lydia in the nursery with the lions.
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@kinkylemons Disturbing?... yes and no. A literal interpretation would be that the parents are dead and their children murdered them. But please remember that the nursery is not real but a virtual reality room. Even though the book hints that the lions are real... they are not. It's just an "artistic license" by Ray to instill fear into us (I believe).<br /> <br /> To me, the true moral of the story is that the children chose the nursery over their parents, i.e. technology can be dangerous if left alone. "Rise of the machines", if you will.<br /> <br /> However... I will admit that the sole fact of "hinting" that the children are murderers crossed my mind, and it IS truly disturbing indeed.
the story of the veldt is well known, but the original story is related to the reader from the point of view of the tragic figure(s) ie the parents. this song is presented on behalf of the children, their thoughts and emotions. the song has a very happy/content feel to it which is the children's main disposition throughout the story. they are happy in their world, and in the end they manifest this attraction to it by resisting it being taken away from them, as any child would. very simply it is a snapshot of the bliss the children experience with one another and their technological entity.
To me the song is also a comment on the children of today, hooked onto the virtual reality of their screens and unaware of the reality that is around them.i In such an environment, with adults relinquishing their parental duties to technological creations and children failing to obey their parents, there are bound to be tragic consequences for the family
reminds me of Bill Gates and the Mark Zuckerbergs out there with children who are neglected and given so much technology that they want to kill their parents for not bonding with them. Its an interesting song about children surviving out there.