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 can see you're very glad to hear about the raid,
Some of the cops were happy to give
A lot more than they are paid.
But what about the copter crash
That took off piggy's head?
We celebrated all weekend,
Now we're glad that he is dead.
It wasn't the first time,
And it sure won't be the last.
Psychic prayer is functional,
And the piggies are dying fast.
And what about that plane crash?
Two hundred and fifty army scum
Came home in pieces for Christmas cheer,
While I sipped my eggnog and rum.
No one will ever have proof of
The precious deeds that I achieve.
Nobody can logically argue
Against the things that I believe.
Just a trifle of positive thinking,
A healthy dose of LSD (the pathway to success).
The following day I'll be watching the news,
And giggle while others grieve.
December the fourth was the day
That they led me away in chains.
They woulda locked up the policewoman
If the judge had had any brains.
Eight months pregnant, she sat on the stand,
And grunted, "He shouldn't be running loose."
There's gotta be something really wrong here,
When pigs are allowed to reproduce.
No one will ever have proof of
The precious deeds that I achieve.
Nobody can logically argue
Against the things that I believe.
Just a trifle of positive thinking,
A healthy dose of LSD.
The following day I'll be watching the news,
And giggle when others grieve.
So anyone foolish or callous enough
To wear a uniform,
So proud of the terror it represents,
Will be sorry that they were born.
If they really believe that the USA
Should roam and rule the world,
Their families can wipe the sperm
From their dead upper lips
With the American flag unfurled.
No one will ever have proof of
The precious deeds that I achieve.
Nobody can logically argue
Against the things that I believe.
Just a trifle of positive thinking,
A healthy dose of LSD.
The following day I'll be watching the news,
And giggle while others grieve.
It wasn't the first time,
And it sure won't be the last.
Psychic prayer is functional,
And the piggies are dying fast
It won't be the first time,
And it sure won't be the last...
Some of the cops were happy to give
A lot more than they are paid.
But what about the copter crash
That took off piggy's head?
We celebrated all weekend,
Now we're glad that he is dead.
It wasn't the first time,
And it sure won't be the last.
Psychic prayer is functional,
And the piggies are dying fast.
And what about that plane crash?
Two hundred and fifty army scum
Came home in pieces for Christmas cheer,
While I sipped my eggnog and rum.
No one will ever have proof of
The precious deeds that I achieve.
Nobody can logically argue
Against the things that I believe.
Just a trifle of positive thinking,
A healthy dose of LSD (the pathway to success).
The following day I'll be watching the news,
And giggle while others grieve.
December the fourth was the day
That they led me away in chains.
They woulda locked up the policewoman
If the judge had had any brains.
Eight months pregnant, she sat on the stand,
And grunted, "He shouldn't be running loose."
There's gotta be something really wrong here,
When pigs are allowed to reproduce.
No one will ever have proof of
The precious deeds that I achieve.
Nobody can logically argue
Against the things that I believe.
Just a trifle of positive thinking,
A healthy dose of LSD.
The following day I'll be watching the news,
And giggle when others grieve.
So anyone foolish or callous enough
To wear a uniform,
So proud of the terror it represents,
Will be sorry that they were born.
If they really believe that the USA
Should roam and rule the world,
Their families can wipe the sperm
From their dead upper lips
With the American flag unfurled.
No one will ever have proof of
The precious deeds that I achieve.
Nobody can logically argue
Against the things that I believe.
Just a trifle of positive thinking,
A healthy dose of LSD.
The following day I'll be watching the news,
And giggle while others grieve.
It wasn't the first time,
And it sure won't be the last.
Psychic prayer is functional,
And the piggies are dying fast
It won't be the first time,
And it sure won't be the last...
Lyrics submitted by FearAndLoathing
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