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"
A ravenous greed for a brood to feed
A lusting spawn on a weekend fawn
Do you hunger for this, hunger for this?
Sucking leaches feel the need
Sucking dry unsated stomach pops
Sharpened knives, oh, with flying sparks
Sagging bodies with stretch marks
And your belly aches
Do you hunger for this, hunger for this?
Hunger for this, bled white with avarice
As the rust creeps
Corrosion seeps a rotting seed
Eat me, oh, feed me
With your belching foul breath
Your destructive kiss, death
Do you hunger for this, hunger for this?
Hunger for this, just a taste of a sweet kiss
Shanghaied on a locust flight
And the thirst from a vampire bite
Fills the emptiness inside
Consuming everything green eyed
We hunger, we hunger
We are hunger for this
Hunger for this
Hunger for this
The bliss of a sweet kiss
Hunger for this
(Hunger for this)
Hunger for this
(Hunger for this)
We hunger, we hunger
We're hunger for this
(Hunger for this)
Hunger for this
(Hunger for this)
We hunger
A lusting spawn on a weekend fawn
Do you hunger for this, hunger for this?
Sucking leaches feel the need
Sucking dry unsated stomach pops
Sharpened knives, oh, with flying sparks
Sagging bodies with stretch marks
And your belly aches
Do you hunger for this, hunger for this?
Hunger for this, bled white with avarice
As the rust creeps
Corrosion seeps a rotting seed
Eat me, oh, feed me
With your belching foul breath
Your destructive kiss, death
Do you hunger for this, hunger for this?
Hunger for this, just a taste of a sweet kiss
Shanghaied on a locust flight
And the thirst from a vampire bite
Fills the emptiness inside
Consuming everything green eyed
We hunger, we hunger
We are hunger for this
Hunger for this
Hunger for this
The bliss of a sweet kiss
Hunger for this
(Hunger for this)
Hunger for this
(Hunger for this)
We hunger, we hunger
We're hunger for this
(Hunger for this)
Hunger for this
(Hunger for this)
We hunger
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thought that was a good bit of info.
this song is quoted in the vampire book by melton.
thought that was a good bit of info.
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I always supposed this was about pregnancy. The first verse really has some grotesque imagery that you could link to the condition 'sagging bodies with stretch marks'. That Siouxsie is asking 'Do you really want something like this?'
She never had children nor has she mentioned anything about it (why should she?) but maybe she's tokophobic.
I'm possibly reading too deep into this :D
Corrections:<br /> <br /> Line 4: Should read 'weakened' fawn, not 'weekend' fawn.<br /> <br /> Line 19: 'The bliss of a sweet kiss' doesn't come until later. Here it is 'Just a taste of the sweet kiss'
I also think this is most likely about pregnancy and lust. She asks, do you hunger for this, in relation to the strech-marks, and uses the metaphor of the baby inside being like a parasite.
However, she also seems to be asking if we hunger for "The bliss of a sweet kiss."
The song seems to be questioning perhaps, the motives behind sex and if it is really all about children or about lust. Kind of like a cautionary tale for young people getting pregnant.
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